Every once in a while, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel will do a man-on-the-street interview type of segment where he sends someone out to demonstrate how dumb Donald Trump supporters supposedly are in an attempt to discredit one of Trump’s positions. However, Wednesday’s attempt at this unwittingly backfired on Kimmel, who was blissfully unaware that one conspiracy theory floated by one of the interviewees was popularized by an anti-Trump CNN analyst who insisted on redoing the 2016 election.
Kimmel introduced the package, “Since he got back, the president has used his fat little Sharpie to sign over 100 executive orders. He signed a bunch of them today. One of the most notable of the executive orders was his order to disband the Department of Education. Now, we already know how his critics feel about that. But what do the folks who voted for Trump think about it? To find out, we went all the way to Florida, to the Gulf of America, to ask some of Trump's bigliest fans what they think about the Department of Education.”
Throughout the whole segment, 12 people would be interviewed, but only two of them were explicitly shown claiming they supported axing the Department of Education. Still, the staffer Kimmel sent to Florida asked such questions as “Can you name the first president of the U.S.?”
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