You gotta love it.
There’s nothing like watching a liberal icon in the media make an unconscious slip of the tongue that reveals what they really think but are afraid to say.
Such was the case this last week as lefty late-night icon Jimmy Kimmel took to America’s TV screens to say this of Trump-appointed Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin. Said Kimmel:
“Before he was elected to the Senate, Markwayne Mullin was a low-level MMA fighter and a plumber,” Kimmel smirked. He plunged on: “That’s right, we have a plumber protecting us from terrorism now. Well, it worked for Super Mario, why not Markwayne.”
And in a blink there it was laid bare. Not too deep in his unconscious, the wealthy left-wing TV star has contempt for America’s working class — plumbers in this case. What will happen the next time the Kimmels need to call a plumber?
Texas Senator Ted Cruz took to X to take note, saying: “I prefer plumbers to woke & unfunny comedians.”
Georgia’s Representative Mike Collins replied:
The elites too often look down their noses at blue collar, middle America. They try to demean a man by calling him a plumber. As if plumbing is something to be ashamed of or is somehow a lesser profession than a court jester turning tricks on late night commentary (comedy is… https://t.co/YXI61kjTEr
— Rep. Mike Collins (@RepMikeCollins) March 25, 2026
Chris Cillizza, formerly of CNN and now an independent journalist, scoffed: “Not a great look.” While Wyoming Senator Cynthia Lummis took to social media to lament “The disdain for which the Democrats and Hollywood elites have for working class Americans – and folks who step up to do important jobs for their country – is shameful. These people need help.”
Taken collectively, not to mention as a stand-alone, Kimmel’s caustic and decidedly elitist look down his nose at Mullin because the latter has a background as a plumber speaks volumes about the real mindset of today’s left-wing media types.
And in fact? Mullin is recorded as not just having started his plumbing business with six employees. He went on to grow the business considerably, growing it to the point where it now has over 100 employees. That’s in addition to building several other businesses and ranching operations in two different Oklahoma counties. In short, Mullin is a highly successful businessman.
Once upon a time, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Democrats he led presented themselves as the party of the working man. Or as FDR called them, “the forgotten man.” FDR also called out the GOP’s then-President Herbert Hoover as the representative of a political party “which can think in terms only of the top of the social and economic structure.”
In today’s world, the parties have flipped. The GOP is the working man’s party, the Democrats the home of wealthy liberal elites. Jimmy Kimmel personifies today’s lefties, notably those in the media, who decidedly “can think in terms only of the top of the social and economic structure.” Which is what results in Kimmel’s media elitist snobbery that looks down his Hollywood nose at plumbers like Secretary Mullin once was.
And to say the least, with the considerably serious business success of Mullin? With Kimmel having stepped in it revealing his true contempt for working Americans?
You can’t make it up.
