Trevor Noah and Jimmy Kimmel criticise Trump’s ‘really f***ing dumb’ decision to pass on additional Pfizer vaccines as UK begins rollout
Kimmel compared the US to the UK where a nationwide rollout is beginning
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Your support makes all the difference.Late-night hosts Trevor Noah and Jimmy Kimmel took aim at Donald Trump’s decision to pass on a chance to secure additional Pfizer vaccines for the US.
On Monday (7 December), it was reported that earlier this summer, the Trump administration had declined an opportunity to buy more of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine.
The decision means that the company may not be able to deliver additional doses to the US beyond what has already been contracted until next summer due to commitments to other countries.
“This may seem like it was a dumb decision by Trump but, if you take a moment to think about it, you’ll realise it was a really f**king dumb decision by Trump,” said Noah on last night’s episode of The Daily Show (8 December).
Noah continued to express disappointment in America’s handling of the pandemic during his “Keeping Up with Corona” segment.
Similarly, on last night’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the talk show host also criticised Trump’s decision to forgo Pfizer’s offer.
Kimmel compared the US’s response to the UK, where the first Pfizer jab outside of a clinical trial was issued to Margaret Keenan, a 90-year-old grandmother from Coventry, yesterday morning (8 December).
“You’d think they would’ve given it to the Queen first but I guess, no they wanted to try it out on someone who isn’t the Queen,” Kimmel quipped. “And Margaret, God bless her, didn’t seem the slightest bit nervous about it at all.”
Kimmel also mocked the president’s ongoing “Operation Warp Speed” executive order, which “seems to confuse even the guy running Warp Speed”.
The administration’s “Operation Warp Speed” was created earlier this year as part of an effort to ramp up vaccine research and build a pathway to immediate nationwide distribution when a vaccination for the novel virus was found.
He went on to roast Jenna Ellis, another of Trump’s lawyers testifying against the results of the 2020 election, who has now tested positive for the coronavirus months after she questioned the legitimacy of the virus.
News of Ellis’s diagnosis comes only two days after Trump’s lead lawyer Rudy Giuliani was taken to hospital with Covid.
Kimmel joked: “I’m starting to think that the virus has a sense of humour around all of this.”
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