During his Tuesday show, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel tried to mock President Trump’s recent executive order regarding the creation of an “Iron Dome”-like missile defense system by claiming Trump has no idea what he is talking about. However, it was Kimmel who showed his ignorance not just on missile defense but also in insisting that viewers take the scientists at the Doomsday Clock seriously when they recently argued the world is closer to midnight than ever before.
Kimmel began, “But during the campaign, Trump promised to build an impenetrable dome around the country. Similar to the one he tries to hide with Aquanet and Propecia every day. Trump signed an executive order to create an Iron Dome to protect us from ballistic and hypersonic missiles and other missiles that Trump learned about half-watching Top Gun on his plane last year.”
It’s not officially a GOP missile defense plan until someone makes a dismissive comment about Star Wars, and Kimmel did just that, “But, he's been in office for a week, Jabba the Pizza Hut is already building a Death Star. A dome like that makes sense for a country like Israel, which is surrounded by enemies. It doesn't make sense for the United States, which is surrounded by Canada and Mexico. Of course, the way Trump's been going, Canada and Mexico may start firing missiles at us, we don't know.”
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