Late-Night Hosts Can’t Believe Donald Trump Thinks We Should Do The Purge in Real Life

“Good news: He stopped talking about Hannibal Lecter. Bad news: He suggested we do The Purge instead,” Jimmy Fallon joked on Monday’s episode of The Tonight Show, referring to the recent Pennsylvania rally where former President Donald Trump suggested that Americans end crime by having “one really violent day.”

For those unfamiliar with the hit horror franchise, which quite fittingly got an Election Year-themed installment in 2016: in the Purge universe, everyone gets an free pass to commit any and all crime, including murder, for 12 hours each year. Speaking at his rally on Sunday, Trump declared that the answer to halting illegal activity like shoplifting is for the government to permit police to use “extraordinarily rough” measures during “one really violent day…one rough hour, and I mean real rough.” According to the ex-president, after allowing such an event, “the word will get out and it will end immediately.”

A Trump campaign official told Politico afterward that Trump was “clearly just floating it in jest.” Steven Cheung, the Trump campaign’s communications director, told Politico that the convicted felon has “always been the law and order president, and he continues to reiterate the importance of enforcing existing laws.”

Despite these assurances, late night TV had a field day tearing into Trump’s Purge-esque plan. “Yeah, Trump wants The Purge, while his staff wishes he would re-enact A Quiet Place,” Fallon continued during Monday’s monologue.

Over on The Late Show, Stephen Colbert asked: “Did he just suggest The Purge for stealing from CVS? [imitating Trump] ‘If that doesn’t work, I have other ideas, OK? We put all the shoplifters on a bus with Keanu Reeves. If it goes slower than 50 miles an hour, blammo!’”—a reference to the 1994 thriller Speed.

After poking fun at Trump’s paranoia over a fly buzzing near him at his recent Wisconsin rally, Seth Meyers observed: “This guy wants to unleash The Purge on the country. But if he sees a fly buzz by, he loses his shit,” adding, “How would Trump even handle a situation like The Purge? [imitating Trump] ‘Don’t worry, everyone. The panic room is completely secure. We’ll be safe from The Purge as long as we keep the door closed—oh, god, there’s a fly!’”

And Jimmy Kimmel reminded everyone just how odd it is that Trump suggested “one really violent day, one rough hour” as a solution to any problems. “If anyone in your life had, like, a weekend like this, you’d be concerned,” he said. “Like if your dad had a series of similar outbursts, you’d call your siblings to figure out what to do.”