It never ceases to amaze me how Democrats can be so openly elitist and hypocritical and get away with it. Jimmy Kimmel, who apparently hasn’t been canceled yet, took a swipe at the new confirmed DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin — not for any policy position, and it was classic leftist elitism and hypocrisy.
"Trump's got a whole new generation of thinkers lined up, including his newly confirmed Secretary of Homeland Security,” Kimmel began. "Before he was elected to the Senate, Markwayne Mullin was a low-level MMA fighter and a plumber."
That was the setup, and here was the punchline: “That's right. We now have a plumber protecting us from terrorism. It worked for Super Mario. Why not Markwayne?"
Jimmy Kimmel doesn't think Markwayne Mullin is qualified to be the Secretary of Homeland Security because he used to be plumber, "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… pic.twitter.com/KT81mBIUOV
— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) March 25, 2026
Here's the thing. If Jay Leno had told that joke when he was hosting The Tonight Show, it would have landed as harmless fun. Leno’s comedy wasn’t partisan. He mocked everyone, and it was all in good fun. But Kimmel isn't Leno. Not even close. You could laugh at Leno's jokes because he would mock Republicans as well as Democrats. Late-night comedy used to be fun for everyone, but now no one is watching it because half the time they're not even trying to tell jokes when they trash the right.
Kimmel wasn’t merely telling a joke; he was accusing Trump of basically hiring a common tradesman to run the Department of Homeland Security. Democrats showed this same contempt for Vice President J.D. Vance, a man who grew up poor in Appalachia and had the nerve to pull himself out of poverty and become a success.
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The left has been running this play against Mullin since the moment Trump nominated him. From day one, critics attacked him for lacking a college degree. What they conveniently left out is why he left school: his father fell ill, and Mullin stepped up, took over the family plumbing business, and turned it into a genuine success story. That’s not a failure. That’s exactly the kind of character and leadership you want in a cabinet secretary.
But what really gets me is the hypocrisy.
Mullin has served in Congress since 2013 and in the Senate since 2023. That's over a decade of federal government experience. For comparison, Barack Obama had served just under four years in the U.S. Senate before taking the presidential oath of office. Nobody on the left called him unqualified except for Hillary Clinton when she was running against him in the primary. But when Obama was the Democrats' nominee, they didn’t mock his résumé; they praised him, even claiming that he was more qualified than John McCain. Say what you want about John McCain's policies, but he was vastly more qualified than Barack Obama.
The pattern is clear: the left pretends to celebrate working-class identity as a political abstraction while openly ridiculing actual working-class people when they’re not on the right team.
