"Opening the show, Fallon cracked that he had woken up to 100 messages from my dad saying, Sorry they cancelled your show.' He followed with bewilderment: To be honest with you all, I don't know what is going on. And no one does. But I do know Jimmy Kimmel, and he is a decent, funny, and loving guy, and I hope he comes back. But Fallon quickly pivoted to the heart of his bit, the uneasy climate for satire in the Trump era."
"A lot of people are worried that we won't keep saying what we want to say or that we'll be censored, he told the audience, before promising: But I'm going to cover the president's trip to the U.K. just like I normally would. It was the set-up for a little theater. Each time Fallon launched into a jab at Trump, his voice was abruptly muted and replaced with a voice-over praising the president."
"At one point, Jeffrey Epstein's name was dubbed out as the voice-over chimed Goldblum. To sum it up, the president is the host continued, only for the voice to supercede: Making America great again by restoring our national reputation, reinvigorating our economy, and rebuilding our military. I hereby nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize. And you can quote me on that!"
Jimmy Fallon opened The Tonight Show pledging to continue mocking President Donald Trump despite fears of censorship. He joked about waking to messages claiming his show had been canceled and defended Jimmy Kimmel as decent and funny. Fallon warned that people worry satire might be censored, then promised to cover the president’s U.K. trip as usual. A staged bit repeatedly muted Fallon’s jabs and overlaid a syrupy voice-over praising Trump, at one point dubbing out Jeffrey Epstein’s name with the word “Goldblum.” The voice lauded Trump’s accomplishments and declared a Nobel Peace Prize nomination before Fallon concluded.
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