Late-night television hosts have criticised the Trump administration's immigration enforcement tactics and its recent focus on school milk policies. Seth Meyers, on Wednesday's Late Night, highlighted the discrepancy between President Trump's campaign promises to deport violent criminals and the reality of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations. Meyers played clips of ICE agents at a high school in Minnesota, where students were pepper-sprayed, and at a Target store, where shoppers were arrested.
Meyers mocked the lowered recruitment standards for ICE, which include a fitness test of 15 push-ups, 32 sit-ups, and a 1.5-mile run in 14 minutes. He noted that nearly half of new recruits failed an open-book written exam, some had criminal backgrounds, and others failed drug tests. “Most Americans do not want armed agents wreaking havoc in their schools, neighbourhoods and grocery stores, especially when those armed agents are not even qualified for the job,” he said.
On Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the host turned to President Trump's signing of a bipartisan bill allowing schools to serve whole and 2% milk, overturning Obama-era restrictions. Trump said from the Oval Office, “Whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican, whole milk is right,” and clarified that it is spelled “whole” as in “w-h-o-l-e”, not “hole”. Kimmel joked, “Does he think that we think that milk comes from a hole?”
Stephen Colbert, on The Late Show, mocked the administration's declaration of “ending the war on protein” and the milk bill as a response to public demand, quipping that the number of Americans demanding the change was “about 2%”. The hosts also referenced Trump's remarks about Greenland, which Kimmel dismissed as unwanted annexation talk.
