Soon-to-be-former House Speaker Paul Ryan is a rat, and the GOP is the sinking ship that he’s fleeing. Get it?
Such was the butt to late-night host Seth Meyers’ joke on Wednesday night in response to the news that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) will be retiring.
“House speaker Paul Ryan announced today that he will not seek re-election. I believe his exact words were, ‘squeak, squeak, squeak,’” Meyers said next to the image of a rat fleeing a sinking ship.
Then Meyers took a shot at Ryan over his penchant for “thoughts and prayers” after a mass shooting. “So now his family are the ones asking for thoughts and prayers,” Meyers joked.
In the same segment, Meyers also took a shot at Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg that somehow tied into Jeff Sessions.
“According to reports, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg sat on a four-inch-thick cushion to boost his height during his Senate testimony yesterday,” began Meyers. “Said Zuckerberg: ‘oh, no, that’s my wallet.’ That’s right, Mark Zuckerberg sat on a four-inch-thick cushion during his Senate testimony yesterday. ‘There was a cushion?’ said Jeff Sessions. ‘I find it very, very inappropriate that only some people get cushions.’”
Meyers also attacked a recent tweet from President Trump regarding the Mueller investigation: “President Trump today criticized special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation saying there is quote, ‘No collusion or obstruction other than I fight back.’ Hold on, ‘no obstruction other than I fight back’? Fighting back against an investigation is obstruction. That’s like saying ‘No infidelity other than I sleep with porn stars.’ Only Trump would try to obstruct justice and confess to it in the same tweet.”