“Daily Show” correspondent Michael Kosta roasted Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday over her bold claim that Donald Trump saved the lives of 258 million Americans due to fentanyl seizures since the start of his second term.
“258 million lives? What is happening here? At the rate Trump is saving lives, death will cease to exist by August,” Kosta joked.
Kosta noted that Bondi’s “outrageous” claim sprouted up Monday on Fox News when she credited the Drug Enforcement Administration for seizing 21 million fentanyl-laced pills, which she believed saved 21 million lives as a result.
Kosta, who joked about the figure being way off from the number of annual deaths due to fentanyl, then turned to a clip where Bondi “corrected herself” two days later on Fox News.
“Since he’s been in office, DEA has taken 22.2 million fentanyl pills off the streets,” she claimed. “This is 119 million lives Donald Trump has saved since January. Pretty remarkable.”
The comedian remarked that Bondi’s increased figure represents roughly one-third of the U.S. population.
“Are you on the fent because you sound high as fuck right now, OK?” he joked.
Bondi, in a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, shifted further from her original claim.
″[The efforts] saved — are you ready for this, media? — 258 million lives,” she added.
Kosta said there’s “no way anybody could ever have been ready” for the figure including Vice President JD Vance, who looked emotionless as he gently nodded after hearing the claim.
“I’ve never seen a man blink, ‘What the fuck is this woman talking about?’” Kosta quipped.
He then declared that Vance knows the claim is “bullshit.”
“He went to Yale, right? It’s no Harlem University but they know math,” said Kosta in a nod to Trump’s confusing town hall response on Wednesday.
Check out Kosta’s Thursday monologue on “The Daily Show.”
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