After one year in office,
Donald Trump has the lowest approval rating of any United States president in modern history. Only 39 percent of Americans approve of his performance. To name just a few of the lowlights, he called a crowd of white supremacists and neo-Nazis "very fine people," endorsed
an alleged sex predator for Senator, and called Haiti, El Salvador and African nations "sh-thole countries." It's safe to say most people don't think he's making America great again.
However, Trump is making late night talk shows great again. The news is a bitter shot of tequila, and satirical comedy is the delicious chaser. Seth Meyers, Samantha Bee, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, and Trevor Noah have all delivered biting, hilarious commentary, but perhaps the biggest stand-out is Jimmy Kimmel. He's not just cracked jokes, but shown emotion,
summing up America's gun problems in a heartbreaking monologue and emerging as a
passionate advocate for universal health care after his newborn baby had to undergo expensive, risky heart surgeries.
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In his latest segment, a correspondent asks children how they think Donald Trump has done in his first year as president. "Great!" exclaims one kid. "What do you think he’s done that’s so great?" follows up the interviewer. “To save the world,” the kid replies. “He saved the world? From what?” asks the interviewer. “From harmony,” the kid answers. As you can tell, their reactions are honest, funny and show that kids understand things a lot more than we expect.
The video is less than three minutes long, but they touch on a lot of topics. One girl complains that Trump "wants to put a wall over Mexico and I, like, love going to Mexico." One boy says, "I think he needs to stop threatening North Korea, because I don't want to get nuked." (Hey, me neither!) One girl says she doesn't think he's smart because "he treats people badly." One boy says that when he hears "Donald Trump" the first thing he thinks of is "small fingers, and an orange face." And of course, the segment ends with all of them doing some pretty accurate Trump impressions. (Watch out, Alec Baldwin.)
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Donald Trump's only been president for a year, but it feels like so much longer. Can you handle three more years of nonstop drama? How about seven? As we reach this point in the Trump presidency, I'm reminded of another Jimmy Kimmel monologue called "Plan To Save Us From Trump." In segment, Jimmy says he understands why people voted for Trump, but let's face it, it just isn't working out. Then he proposes the perfect solution: promote him to king, so he gets all the glamour of the position, without any of the work.
"England has a queen. She lives in a palace, everyone makes a big deal when she shows up, she has no power at all. In the morning, they put a crown on her head, she stands there and waves, she goes back to bed — that’s it...That’s what we need to do with Donald Trump. We need to set him up in a castle, maybe in Florida, lead him to the top and then lock the door to that castle — forever."
Great idea, right? I think the kids would agree.
