Late-Night Is Having a Lot of Fun with Trump’s Saggy Neck
Donald Trump has been getting some sincere compliments from the world for his role in brokering a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas this past week. It’s one of the few times in either of his presidencies that he’s received praise from across the political spectrum. In fact, Time commemorated the historic deal by featuring Trump on the cover of the magazine, alongside the words “His Triumph.”
But there was just one little problem with the image: It was taken from below, looking up, with the president’s 79-year-old neck in the center frame. For those of you who haven’t grown up in houses with mothers obsessed with their neck skin, you may not be as attuned to the frailty of that part of the human body. But the neck loosens before the face, and it’s nearly impossible to keep that skin tight and firm as you age without surgical intervention.
A rather big old man’s neck? That’s gonna be saggy. Even Trump said the image that Time used was pretty terrible.
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“Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the picture may be the Worst of All Time,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “They ‘disappeared’ my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one. Really weird! I never liked taking pictures from underneath angles, but this is a super bad picture, and deserves to be called out. What are they doing, and why?”
Naturally, the period of being even a little nice to Trump was over. On Tuesday night’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the president’s least favorite late-night host took aim at Trump’s rather vaginal-looking neck. “We are now two days into the Middle East ceasefire brokered by Donald Trump. And it is earning him some praise,” Colbert said. “Last night, Time Magazine dropped a new issue to commemorate the deal. Let’s take a look at his heroic cover shot. Okay, worst Georgia O’Keeffe ever.”
“There’s a lot going on there,” Colbert continued. “It’s like one of those optical illusions where you can’t tell if it’s an old woman or a young ball sack.”
Colbert also made fun of Trump taking the time out of his presidential duties to address the photo. “Of course, the president of the United States is far too busy hammering out the details of a deal to end a generational conflict in the Middle East to worry about how he looks on some bi-weekly magazine,” the host said, before putting the Truth Social post up.
“He’s right. You got to hand it to him,” Colbert added. “It is one of the worst (photos) of all time.”
The Late Show wasn’t the only one with jokes about the president’s gullet either.
“Yesterday, Trump had what was easily the most presidential day of his life,” Jimmy Kimmel said during his opening monologue. “He was front and center on the world stage signing a ceasefire in the Middle East. And then (when) he got home, he started going through the internet, and he just couldn’t help himself.”
Kimmel again pointed to Trump’s Truth Social post: “You know, before he was president, he had fake Time magazine covers hanging on the walls of his golf club for real. But this one, I guess, conjured up some mixed feelings because of the photo being used.”
“Every morning is a game of who am I mad at today?” Kimmel continued. “Is it the Cracker Barrel logo? Is it windmills? Is it Bad Bunny? Is it the Nobel Prize? Or is it the turkey vagina slapping around over my chin?”
“I’m not sure we’re even allowed to show his neck on TV,” Kimmel added. “Wouldn’t it be funny if the FCC fined us for showing his neck on TV?”
Saggy necks are coming for us all, unless you can afford a surgeon. But it’s hard to feel any empathy for Trump feeling insecure about his labial nape when he spends the rest of his day ruining the lives of millions of people. May the jokes continue.
