“Daily Show” correspondent Ronny Chieng on Thursday revealed why President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” (or BBB for short) is reminding people of an acronym with a far different meaning.
Chieng tossed to a CNN clip of “Full Disclosure” host Roben Farzad mistakenly referring to the BBB as the “BBL” (an acronym for Brazilian butt lifts, a procedure to alter the look of a person’s buttocks) before catching his gaffe.
“Share your screen right now!” quipped Chieng of Farzad’s on-air fumble.
Chieng suggested that perhaps BBL was a “better name” after all.
“Because this bill is thick and mostly ass!” he added.
The bill — which the House passed on Thursday —slashes Medicaid funding, cuts $290 billion for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (or SNAP) and extends Trump’s 2017 tax cuts at a cost of about $4 trillion.
“The only way this could be more cartoonishly mean to poor people is if it said Bob Cratchit has to work on Christmas Day,” said Chieng as a photo from “The Muppet Christmas Carol” flashed alongside him.
He later continued, “But this vote was very controversial even among Republicans who didn’t like how it increased the debt by $4 trillion. Do you realize how much money $4 trillion is? No, you don’t, because none of it went to education!”
Watch more of Chieng’s Thursday monologue on “The Daily Show.”
