“Daily Show” host Jordan Klepper didn’t hold back on Thursday as he clowned President Donald Trump’s administration for not being able to do a “classic DEI purge right.”
Klepper turned to an ABC World News Tonight report on the Pentagon’s removal and swift restoration of a story on baseball icon Jackie Robinson’s U.S. Army service. The move arrives amid the Trump administration’s push to rid of “diversity, equity and inclusion” in the federal government.
A senior U.S. military official told ABC News’ Rachel Scott that the Pentagon uses digital software to scrub “DEI” content from its website and, ultimately, the stories on the player that broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier were “removed by mistake.”
Klepper didn’t waste time mocking the Defense Department’s explanation, “Oh, don’t blame us, blame our racist software. We should have never used ChatKKK. Classic mistake.”
He added that it wasn’t the “most embarrassing anti-DEI flub,” however, before playing a clip detailing photos the Pentagon flagged for removal as their file featured the word “gay,” which was reportedly the case with a snap of the Enola Gay aircraft — which dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II.
“That’s how lazy they were with this, they just control f’d for gay-sounding keywords and deleted anything that showed up,” Klepper quipped.
“Now kids won’t know about the Enola Gay, they won’t know about transport planes and they’ll never hear about the heroic service of Captain Grindr McScissoring. Tragic. What’s extra tragic is this could have all been avoided if they just named the plane Enola Gay No Homo, you know?”
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Watch more of Klepper’s Thursday monologue below.
