Jimmy Kimmel Live lies about Trump’s White House renovation plans
By Hector Cruz
Jimmy Kimmel Live’s “Lie Witness News” outlines President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to “Make the White House Great Again.”
Jimmy Kimmel Live took the streets once again for its popular man-on-the-street segment “Lie Witness News,” this time to find out what people thought about Donald Trump’s fictional plans to improve the White House. Passersby were surprisingly supportive of the renovations, which included a champagne fountain, food court and demolishing it to rebuild it as a 50-story, gold-plated penthouse building with a giant “T” on the roof.
Kimmel began by noting that we are set to have “a president who doesn’t seem too keen living in the White House,” amid reports that Trump will be splitting his weekends between his New York penthouse and his properties in New Jersey and Florida.
The first interviewee is open to the idea of tearing down the White House in the spirit of wanting change for the country, while the food court idea is shot down by one woman, unless it includes a Cinnabon. Meanwhile, the champagne fountain idea is labeled as “trashy” by one participant if it’s installed on a permanent basis.
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“The White House is the face of our country, so if it’s gonna be so much more bigger and greater, then this is definitely gonna benefit us,” one man says when presented with the penthouse building idea, which he claims to have heard about on “Tweeter.” Plans to put a waterbed in and a mirror on the ceiling also gets a thumbs up so Trump can “get down and get a little freaky.”
One man actually pushes back by asserting that a picture presented as former Mongolian architect Melania’s sketch is actually a rendering of Mecca, but another interviewee goes along with the idea that previous White House renovations included widening of the doors for Howard Taft and the installation of an outhouse by Jimmy Carter that Margaret Thatcher once got stuck in.
The segment culminates in a question about Trump requesting a bigger Christmas tree, resulting in some of the people chanting “Bigger tree!” until the phrase ends up sounding like “bigotry.”
Watch the entire clip below:
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