Late-night hosts took aim at Donald Trump’s history of racism linked to the fallout from his reported “shithole” comments last week.
Samantha Bee: ‘So yeah. Trump is racist’
On Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, the host introduced a segment titled Is This Racist Racist?, which saw her go through Trump’s history of offensive comments and behavior.
Bee joked that the question has been one that journalists have been pondering over time, and it’s “mystified them for years”.
She continued: “It’s today’s Watergate, if Nixon had repeatedly stuck his head out of the window and screamed ‘I did Watergate’.”
A montage of clips supporting the assertion then followed. “Trump has done so many racist things that it’s impossible to remember them all,” she said.
Bee believes that Trump’s comments about various “shithole” countries last week deserve to have a huge impact and we need to stop feigning surprise. “Stop acting shocked about it and start grappling with what it means,” she said. “Donald Trump hates black and brown people and he’s in charge of a lot of their lives.”
In conclusion, she said: “Hundreds of thousands of families will be torn apart because the president thinks they’re shitholes. So yeah, whatever, Trump is racist. Let’s try and hold that in our heads for good this time.”
Stephen Colbert: ‘25 Filet-O-Fishes and three hours of Fox & Friends’
On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert discussed the government shutdown the US is hurtling towards. “Well, maybe not hurtling,” he said. “The average age of a US senator is 62, so … shambling.”
He continued: “The nation is still reeling from the shocking news that our president is perfectly healthy.”
Trump’s excellent results from this week’s medical exam have led to shock from many who have questioned the accuracy of what’s been released. “Good news, seventh-graders: instead of 25 push-ups and a mile run, from now on the presidential fitness test is going to be 25 Filet-O-Fishes and three hours of Fox & Friends,” Colbert joked.
The president is allegedly 6ft 3in and 239lb. “But some people don’t believe that,” Colbert said. “For instance: people.”
Seth Meyers: ‘Norway is whiter than an episode of Frasier’
On Late Night with Seth Meyers, the host examined the testimony of Kirstjen Nielsen, the secretary of homeland security, who claimed that she wasn’t aware of any derogatory comments made by Trump in the much-discussed meeting. She also stated that she wasn’t sure of Norway was a predominantly white country.
“You don’t know if Norway is a predominantly white country?” Meyers said. “Norway is whiter than an episode of Frasier projected on the side of a polar bear.”
After Trump held a televised meeting about immigration, in which he said that he would be open to a bipartisan agreement, his senior policy adviser Stephen Miller was said to have stepped in to save the president from being the victim of trickery. Last week, Miller claimed that Trump was one of the all-time greatest political geniuses. “I’m sorry, but actual geniuses aren’t susceptible to trickery,” Meyers joked.
In summation, Meyers called Trump “an erratic childlike president with no principles and virtually no understanding of policy who changes his mind wildly from one minute to the next depending on who he’s talking to”.
