“No Soul Train”: Anthony Anderson Roasts Tim Scott’s RNC Speech
Written by djfrosty on July 17, 2024
Anthony Anderson made fun of Senator Tim Scott’s speech at the Republican National Convention’s opening night, as well as Donald Trump’s bandaged ear and convention entrance.
On Tuesday (July 16), actor Anthony Anderson kicked off his guest hosting stint of Late Night With Jimmy Kimmel with a monologue that skewered South Carolina Senator Tim Scott’s speech at the Republican National Convention, which Anderson dubbed “the white People’s Choice Awards”. After noting that the party officially declared Donald Trump as its nominee, “which means there was a lot of ass-kissing on display,” he went on to call out Scott. “But no one kissed more ass than the senator from South Carolina, Tim Scott.”
The show then played a clip from Scott’s speech, where he spoke about the thwarted assassination attempt on Trump’s life. “On Saturday, the devil came to Pennsylvania holding a rifle, but an American lion got back up on his feet and he roared!”, Scott yelled, adding a couple more roars for the convention audience. “Tim, Trump already picked his running mate,” Anderson said after the clip, referring to Ohio Senator J.D. Vance.
“You don’t have to do this, bruh.” But he noted that the “most ridiculous” part of Scott’s remarks came afterward. They then played the clip, which showed Scott saying once again that “America is not a racist country.” Anderson replied sarcastically, Attention large crowd of white people: America is not a racist country. Thanks, Uncle Tim. Or Tom, whichever you go by.”
Anderson also took time to poke fun at the several shots of Republican supporters dancing in the crowd at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, calling it the “No Soul Train”.
But he saved some of his best jabs for the former president, saying that Trump “walked in like a heavyweight champ, with the swagger of Mike Tyson and the ear of Evander Holyfield. I mean, Trump had his ear all bandaged up. That’s the whitest square I’ve seen next to him since Mike Pence.”
Check out the full monologue from Anthony Anderson above.
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