Samantha Bee thinks Robert Mueller is using a Mean Girls move on Trump

While everyone tries to decipher out Robert Mueller’s strategy for investigating Trump and friends, Samantha Bee may have figured it out.

It’s been a big week for the movie Mean Girls. The 2004 film was reintroduced to the spotlight thanks to Ariana Grande’s video for her song Thank U, Next. While it certainly made sense for a pop star to reference a Lindsay Lohan film, not many people would expect it to pop up on a breakdown of Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. Enter last night’s Full Frontal with Samantha Bee.

Returning from a brief break, Full Frontal had some catching up to do. Part of that included examining the sentencing memo for Michael Flynn as well as Mueller’s withdrawal from an agreement with Paul Manafort. 

Mueller reported that Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, lied to him and shared information about the investigation with Trump. This led to a lot of speculation about whether Mueller knew this was going to happen with some suggesting it was all part of the special counsel’s plan.

If such a twist sounds a little too far-fetched to you then you’re not alone. Plenty of others said that it was too “Hollywood” sounding for that to be the case. But not for Samantha Bee. In fact, she noticed some familiar tactics in Mueller’s efforts to set everyone up.

The only group more ruthless than Mueller and his team of “angry democrats” may be Regina George and the Plastics. Trump’s inner circle certainly has been reduced to about the size of the Plastics. The president also enjoys some of the juvenile name-calling and pettiness that made Mean Girls such a hit, so any comparisons between the film and the entire Trump/Mueller situation seem valid.

Mueller seems to be going through a burn book of Trump associates and friends and also finding out the truth about everyone. As Bee points out, it may be pretty easy to nail down Roger Stone considering Stone doesn’t have that great of a poker face.

Obviously nobody knows what exactly Robert Mueller is thinking or what he has on Trump’s friends and family. But people keeping talking to him and spilling secrets like Mean Girls. First Manafort, then Cohen, and now perhaps Stone. Just imagine Mueller saying “thank u, next” as each one makes it easier and easier for him to close in on his target.