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Jimmy Fallon spent a second straight night ribbing President Donald Trump's new Great American State Fair on Thursday, saving his sharpest jab for a petting zoo bit aimed squarely at the president's cognitive fitness.

The "Tonight Show" host took aim at the fair, which opened to the public on Thursday on the National Mall as part of America's 250th anniversary celebrations, rattling off a list of fictional attractions inspired by Trump.

A conservative commentator yelped with delight over the U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the federal government's policy of turning back asylum seekers before they can reach the border, and a fellow CNN panelist calmly dismantled his argument.

The justices ruled 6-3 that a policy adopted in response to a surge of Haitian immigrants did not violate a federal law permitting noncitizens to apply for asylum upon arrival in the U.S., and the majority and dissenting opinions addressed the racial animus in the policy – but from completely different vantage points.

Comments made by Vice President JD Vance at the Richard Nixon Library on Thursday earned him a thrashing on MS NOW after he blamed Nixon’s Watergate scandal on the “deep state.”

As “Morning Joe” co-host bluntly observed, Nixon's use of the FBI, CIA and Washington insiders — which brought down his presidency — was the very definition of the ”deep state.”

MS NOW host Michael Steele erupted on Thursday's broadcast of "The Weeknight" while discussing what he described as the Trump administration's "claptrap" about the 2026 midterm elections.

Steele discussed the Trump administration's efforts to eliminate mail-in voting with panelists Angelo Carusone, CEO of Media Matters, and Janai Nelson of the Legal Defense Fund. Steele noted the apparent irony in the effort, considering that President Donald Trump has voted by mail in every election since he moved to the White House.

Dr. Mehmet Oz, President Donald Trump's administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, baffled analysts on Thursday after he uncorked a series of wild claims during an interview on Newsmax about the Trump administration's efforts to combat health care fraud.

Oz was interviewed by Newsmax host Greta Van Susteren about a multi-billion-dollar hospice scam that the Trump administration recently uncovered. But one claim he made during the more than five-minute-long segment raised multiple red flags for political analysts.

A Slate legal analyst said Thursday the Supreme Court's conservative majority delivered a seismic blow to multiple areas of American law in a single morning, expanding President Donald Trump's power in the process.

Appearing on a panel Thursday, Mark Joseph Stern, co-host of Slate's Amicus podcast, walked through three 6-3 rulings the court handed down, all authored by Justice Samuel Alito and all splitting along ideological lines.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin lost his temper at a Democratic congresswoman, calling her a hypocrite to her face Thursday and telling her she should be "put in her place" during a congressional oversight hearing.

The blowup came at a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing, where Mullin was testifying on the Department of Homeland Security's budget. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), the panel's ranking member, had invoked former President Donald Trump's family separation policy, noting that 3,900 children were separated from their parents at the border.