Donald Trump may be looking down the barrel of 91 felony charges that could potentially carry a prison sentence of 641 years, but that doesn’t mean he can’t take a moment to admire Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R-OH) impressive physique. According to Seth Meyers, that’s just one of the many ways the former president has “weirdified” the Republican party.
On Thursday, Meyers dedicated the bulk of his “A Closer Look” segment to the utter chaos that is the GOP and their ongoing and increasingly messy search for a new House Speaker. While it took nine days and a secret ballot vote for House Republicans to declare Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) their choice to replace the recently ousted Kevin McCarthy, that decision flew directly in the face of Trump, who heartily endorsed Jordan for the gig—and Meyers thinks he knows why.
“In the past, Trump has praised Jordan for the weirdest reasons,” Meyers explained. Case in point: Jordan’s disdain for suit jackets—a seemingly random sartorial choice that Trump is reading a lot into. Way back in February 2020, when Trump was still actually president, he shared that “When I first got to know Jim I said, ‘Huh. Never wears a jacket! What the hell’s going on?’”
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Rather than hold that choice against the congressman, the then-POTUS instead decided that Jordan’s tendency to treat every day like it’s Casual Friday must be because “he’s proud of his body.”
“I know everybody stopped caring about hypocrisy years ago,” Meyers said, after being briefly stunned into silence by Trump’s hot bod hot take. “But just imagine how conservatives would react if Joe Biden was out on the stump talking about the body-positivity of the men in the Democratic party. ‘I’ll tell you, our caucus right now is just one Gosling after another.’”
Ultimately, none of it seems to really matter. Despite Trump’s blessing, Jordan’s fellow Republicans selected Scalise as their next leader… who promptly dropped out of contention for the role.
