Jimmy Fallon Calls Donald Trump’s NFT Trading Card An “Ambien Dream”

Jimmy Fallon seemed as confused as anyone when he reacted to Donald Trump’s new NFT trading card The Tonight Show.

The comedian blasted the former president during his monologue on Thursday’s show, suggesting that Trump has finally “lost it.”

Trump’s supporters were expecting big news when he said he had a “big announcement” on December 15. As it turned out, that announcement was the launch of his new NFT trading card.

The images on the trading cards feature artwork of Trump related to moments from his life and career. Fallon, like many who reacted on social media, seemed to not believe what he saw.

“Even the most die-hard Trump supporters were like, ‘OK, now I’m worried,'” Fallon said at the top of The Tonight Show. “Even the MyPillow guy was like, ‘I think Trump’s lost it?'” If you saw that at 2 a.m., you’d be like, “Am I having an Ambien dream?”

“You know your campaign isn’t going well when your re-election strategy is, ‘Maybe people will like me as a Pokémon?'” Fallon said while imitating Trump’s voice, before adding: “Trump was like, ‘These cards that classified documents, you’ve got to catch them all.'”

Fallon wasn’t the only late-night host to mock Trump’s “big announcement.”

Stephen Colbert mocked Trump’s new card with a similar one Pokémon theme, calling them “Gropemon cards”. Colbert also suggested that the trading cards were the “saddest” thing he’s ever seen.

After watching Trump’s ad in his monologue on Jimmy Kimmel Live!said the host: “It’s like QAnon meets QVC.”

Kimmel then went through some of the trading cards one by one to mock them, singling out Sheriff Trump, Hotshot Hollywood Trump, Tuxedo Trump and more. “This has got to be the most pathetic announcement of all time,” Kimmel said.

Seth Meyers made it the subject of his popular segment A Closer Look on Late Night with Seth Meyersand also referred to the announcement as “pathetic”.

“You have to love the timing, a former president launching his NFT line the same week a crypto fraudster is arrested,” he said, referring to Sam Bankman-Fried, the former FTX CEO. The timing of Trump’s announcement was pointed out by a few of the late-night hosts.

It wasn’t just comedians who were unimpressed by Trump’s announcement, as his former adviser Steve Bannon said he “can’t do this anymore.”

Bannon called for those responsible for the announcement to be “fired today” on Thursday’s episode of his War Room podcast.

“He’s one of the greatest presidents in history, but I have to tell you anybody […] business partner [or] anyone on the communications team and anyone at Mar-a-Lago […] and I love the people down there, but we’re at war — they should be fired today,” Bannon said in reaction to seeing Trump’s ad for the NFT product.