Overview
- On Thursday night Jimmy Fallon returned to mocking the Great American State Fair on The Tonight Show by joking that the fair’s petting zoo contains the animals President Trump said he named during a cognitive test.
- Fallon imitated Trump’s reported answers with a deadpan line — “Horse, duck, stripey horse” — using the bit to question the president’s public claims about his mental sharpness.
- The Great American State Fair opened on the National Mall as part of America’s 250th anniversary events, providing a high-profile setting for Fallon’s recurring monologue about Trump.
- Trump has repeatedly boasted that he passed cognitive screenings, including the MoCA, and at a May 1 rally in The Villages he publicly recited animals he said appeared on the test.
- A separate April bill from Rep. Jamie Raskin and about 50 House Democrats would create a 25th Amendment commission to assess presidential fitness, but the proposal faces little chance of passage in the Republican-controlled House even as satire and media coverage raise public attention.