Seth Meyers, Jimmy Fallon, Trevor Noah, and Stephen Colbert found punchlines in a shared target on Wednesday night: Ivanka Trump, President Donald Trump’s daughter and a key White House advisor, who became a trending topic on social media after posting an ill-advised photo of herself holding up a can of Goya beans.
“Originally, Jared was going to do it, but it was too heavy,” Meyers joked on Late Night. He added, “Look at that. That’s the closest she’s ever gotten to working. You just know she’s sore today.”
Later in his show, Meyers returned to the “incredibly dumb and most likely illegal tweet”: “She looks like she’s auditioning to be a game show model in the ‘80s,” he said, before slipping into an impression of a host. “Oh, the vaccine was behind door number one, but you’ve won a supply of Goya beans! Show ‘em the beans, Ivanka!”
Equating the photo of Ivanka to a game show was on Fallon’s mind as well. “I’m not sure if Ivanka is trying to promote Goya or she’s auditioning to be a model on The Price is Right,” the host joked on The Tonight Show.
Ivanka’s tweet came in response to a boycott of Goya Foods products that was called for after the company’s CEO, Robert Unanue, praised the president. As Meyers noted, in addition to being a source of derision, the photo was also flagged as a possible federal ethics violation, as White House employees are not permitted to use their platform to endorse products. (“That news is shocking,” Noah joked during The Daily Show. “There are still ethics laws? I just assumed after Trump became president, the Office of Ethics Violations got converted into a storage closet for his old KFC buckets.”)
In the aftermath of the backlash to Ivanka, President Trump wasted no time posting a picture of himself giving the thumbs-up to a handful of Goya products displayed on the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office.
“I mean, I’m glad the president is using his desk for probably the first time in months, but come on guys—you gotta admit, this is pretty embarrassing,” Noah said of the Trump picture. “The dude doesn’t look like a president; he looks like a local athlete who retired 15 years ago and is desperate for money.”