Trump thinks genies come out of boxes because his can't afford lamps: Leslie Jones

Donald Trump's genie flub got filleted during Monday's episode of "The Daily Show," with guest star Leslie Jones.

The former president appeared in a sit-down interview with Univision's Enrique Acevedo at Mar-a-Lago to discuss his claim that President Joe Biden has weaponized the Department of Justice.

"Well, he's unleashed something that everybody we've all known about this for a hundred years," he said in the interview. "If they do this and they've already done it, but if they want to follow through on this, yeah, it could certainly happen in reverse. It could certainly happen in reverse.

"What they've done is they've released the genie out of the box. You understand that."

It has drawn a lot of mockery, such as the co-hosts of "The View," who claimed it was an example of Trump "losing it."

Jones was mystified.

"Wait, wait, wait, wait, am I tripping?" she asked. "Did he say 'genie out of the box?' Man, this dude can't even tell the truth about genies."

The audience laughed hysterically.

"The one thing we know about genies is that they come out of a lamp," she said, correcting the 45th president.

If such a creature, popularly known in folklore to grant three wishes, were to be rubbed from a box instead of a lamp — Jones makes the case that it would be a poor excuse for a genie.

"If a genie comes out of a box, that's not a real genie," Jones stated. "That's an elf that went to trade school and then took a genie class."

She added: "How you going to trust a genie in a box? If a genie can't afford a lamp, he definitely can't afford three wishes. He might only be able to give one-and-a-half wishes. But they're definitely going to be [bleep] up."

There was a hit song in 1999 titled Genie in a Bottle from Christina Aguilera. Trump generally uses older references, like referring to women as "suburban house wives," during the 2020 election. His most recent pop culture reference was accidently misspelling "Perry Mason," a television show that spanned the late 1950s into the 1960s.

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