“Daily Show” correspondent Ronny Chieng jokingly shared an “optimistic” attitude for Donald Trump’s second term before his outlook fell apart as he looked at a list of contenders to join the president-elect’s cabinet on Thursday.
Chieng turned to a NewsNation report that named Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Trump’s ex-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (R) and former acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf (R) as possible cabinet picks.
Chieng, who called the picks “not as bad” as he expected, added that it “could be worse” before the report mentioned Trump allies Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Elon Musk, Steve Bannon and Laura Loomer among the contenders.
“OK, yeah, it’s worse,” Chieng said.
He later continued, “OK, so this is the A-team and other names floated for his cabinet include Hannibal Lecter, the Menendez brothers, the poliovirus and — for Secretary of Transportation — a Cybertruck with a Hitler mustache.”
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