Jimmy Kimmel Insults the Working Class While Trying to Mock Markwayne Mullin
“Before he was elected to the Senate, Markwayne Mullin was … a plumber. That’s right. We have a plumber protecting us from terrorism now.”
Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel took a swipe at newly minted Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin during his Tuesday night monologue. His so-called “joke” was just another smug reminder of how little elites think of working-class Americans.
Don’t worry, Trump’s got a whole new generation of thinkers lined up, including his newly confirmed Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Chuck Mike Bruce Dave Melon Mullin. … Before he was elected to the Senate, Markwayne Mullin was a low-level MMA fighter and a plumber. That’s right. We have a plumber protecting us from terrorism now.
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But honestly, if Trump is going to keep picking these unqualified people to run the department, why not have more fun with it? I mean, next time, instead of Markwayne, how about [rapper] Lil Wayne for Homeland Security? [Viewers are shown a photo of Lil Wayne with President Trump] At least we could get a free concert out of it.
With one joke, Kimmel laid bare his contempt for the working class and middle America. To him, Mullin is “unqualified” because he worked as a plumber and dared to spend his life in Oklahoma, of all places.
That remark was bad enough — but it also ignored the scale of Mullin’s accomplishments before he entered politics. According to his DHS biography, Mullin was just 20-years-old when his father fell ill. He left college to take over the family’s plumbing business — and transformed a six-man shop into “the largest service company in the region, and along the way founded numerous other successful companies.”
When Markwayne Mullin was 20 his dad's health took a turn. He dropped out of college to run the family business. He built it from 6 people into a multimillion dollar HVAC company with 150+ employees.
He's a pillar of his community, and @jimmykimmel can't even tell a funny joke. https://t.co/yVfsqzpRgh
— Benjamin Domenech (@bdomenech) March 25, 2026
With Kimmel’s claim that Tyler Robinson, the suspect accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk, was linked to MAGA still fresh in mind, conservatives wasted no time targeting him on social media.
Some reminded Kimmel of his own early career:
Before he became a globalist propaganda stooge, @jimmykimmel wore blackface and spoke in exaggerated Ebonics to pretend black people were dumb. As if we don’t remember that racism from him!? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/Go43LTLxEv
— BlueyAnon (@BlueyAnon) March 25, 2026
Jimmy Kimmel is the last person who should criticize someone’s early career! pic.twitter.com/rPx90lyHcb
— Rachel Lane (@Sober_In_Dublin) March 26, 2026
Jimmy Kimmel attended the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, for one year and then transferred to Arizona State University, where he studied for a year before leaving without graduating. What a hypocrite.
— John Smith (@JohnSmith14134) March 25, 2026
Kimmel’s early career!!! 🙄🙄🙄 pic.twitter.com/Pom7Vbyrll
— MyHome (@chicagoguy773) March 26, 2026
Others highlighted the importance and the dignity of tradesmen:
💯 @mikeroweworks 🎯 pic.twitter.com/fvDUDCgTrO
— Chris (@TheRealChrisCCI) March 25, 2026
— Leigh Allen (@leighallen2525) March 25, 2026
And some, like the commenter below, got right to the heart of the issue. He wrote: “How long will it take for the elitist snobs on the left to understand credentialism is dying? It’s not going to be about where you went, or what degree you got. What can you DO? What have you DONE? What RESULTS have you produced? Jimmy produces lame ‘comedy.'”
— marfdrat (@marfdrat) March 25, 2026
Kimmel thought he was mocking Mullin, but all he really did was expose himself. To people like Kimmel, building a business, creating jobs, and living outside the coastal bubble isn’t admirable — it’s something to sneer at. But that arrogance is exactly why so many Americans have stopped taking cues from late-night hosts and started trusting people who’ve actually done something real.
If having worked as a plumber is considered “disqualifying,” then maybe it’s not Mullin who’s out of touch. It’s the people laughing at him.
Leftists didn’t complain about these freaks. pic.twitter.com/fA6a5AMRUh
— Cali Conservative (@T_Hates_Cali) March 25, 2026
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I look at where people come from. Virtually all our politicians and senior bureaucrats fit a pattern. Privileged upbringing, increasingly parents in government at medium to high level. Off to some “elite” university. Then law degree. Never practice law, or maybe a year or two. Then some staff position for a few years, then run for office. Or get appointed to a cushy job.
A plumber’s son that dropped out of college to take over his father’s business and built it into something big? Don’t know much about him, but I like him until proven otherwise.
Understand he is a bit of a hothead. I don’t know how anyone working in the DC madhouse could not lose it once in a while.
So true. We had some major hardwood floor replacement, small carpeting and indoor painting.
Every man who worked had ownership in his skilled area. They were terrific people overall – families, kids, calling their own shots, etc. I’d take them over any Ivy League BS/BA, M, or PhD.
Integrity is a key characteristic of self-employed or “built their own” businesses. So Jimmy built
his “business” by degrading others – big deal.
Another defining, widespread trait among Dhimmi-crat apparatchik candidates, officeholders and party standard-bearers, is their nearly universal, studious avoidance of substantive private sector work experience, managerial experience and ownership experience. Obama; Biden; Harris; Pelosi; Sanders; Schumer; Warren; Omar; Occasional-Cortex; Mamdani; et al.
This is reflective of their generally privileged upbringings, laziness, entitlement, inability to produce anything of value, and their inability to achieve anything based upon their own merit, risk-taking and gumption.
After George McGovern had left politics, he ended up running a hotel. He started talking about government regulations that didn’t make sense and just made getting the job done more difficult and more expensive. People with private sector experience understand what’s wrong with government. Unfortunately, many of our politicians are just grifters.
This is one reason for the organized smear campaign to try and hobble JD Vance. The elite/establishment types, the go along/get along, beneficiaries of the status quo correctly fear Vance precisely b/c he came up in hard circumstances, joined the USMC used his GI Bill to go to college, graduating from Yale law School a stint in corporate law, then venture capital before election to the Senate and VP. He appeals to a very broad cross section. IOW he is an outsider who got across the high barriers to entry of the CV gatekeepers of the elites. The elites hate and fear him b/c they understand he will be more of a change agent to the status quo than Trump, more willing to overturn tables and upend their comfortable fiction of ‘the way things have always been’. The establishment would be far wiser to make deals with Trump than their current course of defiant/disdain hoping to wait him out b/c Vance is gonna be far more willing to wreck things v cut deals to avoid making a mess.
I encourage Newsolini and the Dhimmi-crats to dutifully follow the arrogant, smug and ivory tower/bubble-ensconced ethos of the painfully unfunny, elitist and obnoxious “comedian,” Kimmel, so that they can lose the 2028 presidential election by even wider margins in the popular vote, Electoral College and county tallies.
Plumber. Hahaha. Not even a college degree. Hahaha.
Golly. It’s almost as if these marxixt meat puppets are lying about their support for DEI.
Works of the world, unite!
But do it in the poolhouse, please!
More poison from Kimmel. Have never watched him other than seeing clips of him being a SOS and his audience, too. Abhorrent people all around.
wow,,its just another irony that hte lefty narcissists dont care about
covid 19 lockdowns were theeee game changer
lefty saw that they could and di in fact cripple us with their censoring and limiting movement in the streets…not of all people
just the people they wanted to be free>>>blmplo ran wild while long islanders and other maga were successfully stopped
so they continue their barrage as plumbers etc showed that with a djt personality,,yes, they would vote gop
but lacking that..unions>>>dems 1000 percent
I’ve long suspected that the reason that Joe Biden was such an (redacted) was that he never felt the consequences of his big mouth.
Most young men learn to respect one another early on. When their mouth gets ahead of their brain, a few fists from those he insulted usually modifies the aberrant behavior.
Joe was insulted from that behavior modification, clearly.
As is the case here with Mr. Kimmel. He’s not funny, he’s not talented, he’s not endearing or entertaining. He’s a vulgar, ignorant loudmouth.
He’s the Anti-Carson.
You can say that again. Johnny Carson reruns from 70s-80s every night on free tv. Johnny teased everyone. It’s fun being reminded about crazy stuff that happened back then. You couldn’t pay me to watch Kimmel or any of his ilk.
It’s common knowledge that in order to speak intelligently on current events you must have previously hosted a show which featured “girls on trampolines'”. Kimmel in uniquely qualified in this regard.
Nothing would be wrong about this joke if the same type of humor were applied evenly with the other party.
Wait until Kimmel finds out that Jimmy Carter was just a mere peanut farmer from Georgia.
How about that rail-splitter guy from Illinois? They even say he’s “honest,” if you believe that can be applied to any politician.
Exactly my first thought. Good thing his audience is young and stupid enough to not even know the brother of the worlds finest brewer was president.
I use Kimmel as a cautionary tale. I showed my son a picture of Kimmel’s wife and said, “avoid women like that.”
So he didn’t marry the bedwetter?
Before Kimmel was handed a late-night TV slot, he was a nebbish.
Still is.
We really do need a like button for posts!
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