Fallon Warns Trump Cabinet Pick Would ‘Gut the Education System’

Kyle Drennen | December 1, 2016
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In an unusually nasty attack from Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon Wednesday night, the late-night comedian went after President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for education secretary, philanthropist Besty DeVos: “But this has some people upset, I heard that Donald Trump's pick for Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos, never went to public school and has never even worked for public schools. People are saying that as a billionaire without much experience, she might be too similar to Trump.”

He then talked to a fictional “Betsy DeVos” on the phone and grilled her: “Mrs. DeVos, how do you respond to the accusation that you're too inexperienced and too similar to Donald Trump?” The impersonator employed some Trumpesque phrases: “I have big respect for Trump, Jimmy, bigly....And besides, who needs experience?”

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