{"id":15841,"date":"2026-07-24T16:02:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T11:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=15841"},"modified":"2026-07-24T16:02:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T11:02:28","slug":"jimmy-fallon-mocks-trumps-botched-jab-at-jon-ossoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=15841","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Fallon Mocks Trump&#8217;s Botched Jab at Jon Ossoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trump Gets Mocked During Speech at a High School, Calls Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff &quot;Pinky Herman&quot;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wWQjLhN4esE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jimmy Fallon<\/strong> mocked President <strong>Donald Trump\u2019s<\/strong> botched attempt at trashing Senator <strong>Jon Ossoff<\/strong> (D-GA) during a Wednesday night speech in Georgia, when he nicknamed the lawmaker \u201cPinky Herman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump was speaking at a high school in Marietta on Wednesday to promote his new Trump Accounts savings program for children when he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/online\/watch-4-bonkers-moments-from-trumps-georgia-speech\/\">veered<\/a> off on a tangent, ripping the state\u2019s Democratic senator:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Georgia is a state that believes in common sense, and yet, your terrible Senator Jon Ossoff, he\u2019s terrible. And the Democrats, in Congress, are voting with the communists every single time. They are afraid of the communists you look at it. Now, I, I fought Ossoff before as you know, and we won, we had a great success against this guy. He reminds me of Pinky Herman. Did you ever see Pinky Herman?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The apparent attempt to reference the zany children\u2019s television character <strong>Pee-wee Herman<\/strong> instead landed as \u201cPinky Herman,\u201d prompting Fallon on Thursday night to imagine Ossoff responding in the voice of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/entertainment\/cnn-shares-statement-written-by-paul-reubens-before-his-death-i-have-loved-you-all-so-much\/\">the late<\/a> <strong>Paul Reubens\u2019<\/strong> famous character.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn response, Jon Ossoff was like, [imitating Pee-wee Herman] \u2018I know you are, but what am I?&#8221;\u201d Fallon joked during Thursday\u2019s edition of The Tonight Show, dancing around the stage repeating the punchline.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com\/the-tonight-show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The <\/em><em>Tonight Show<\/em><\/a> host then piled on: \u201cPinky Herman sounds like the guy who ripped him off on the Reflecting Pool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He followed that with another riff imagining Trump confusing the names of other well-known fictional characters: \u201cTrump said, [imitating Trump] \u2018He\u2019s one of the greats, but my all-time favorites are Mikey Mouse, and Sponge Boob was great.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou got to give Trump credit, he mispeaks in ways nobody ever thought possible,\u201d he wrapped up.<\/p>\n<p>Watch above via NBC.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>New: The Mediaite One-Sheet &#8220;Newsletter of Newsletters&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>Your daily summary and analysis of what the many, many media newsletters are saying and reporting. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/subscribe\">Subscribe now!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Fallon mocked President Donald Trump\u2019s botched attempt at trashing Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) during a Wednesday night speech in Georgia, when he nicknamed the lawmaker \u201cPinky Herman.\u201d Trump was speaking at a high school in Marietta on Wednesday to promote his new Trump Accounts savings program for children when he veered off on a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-24-at-09-55-10-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsweek-trending"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}