Late-night hosts discussed the latest problems within the Trump government, including the president’s lack of evidence for his wiretap claims.
On The Daily Show, Trevor Noah spoke about Donald Trump’s failure to provide any proof that Obama secretly recorded him. “Guys, come on, Trump isn’t going to present evidence, he never does,” he said. “He doesn’t even present evidence when he’s playing a game of Clue.”
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In character, he then said: “It was Colonel Mustard in the kitchen because he’s Muslim. Game over, I win.”
He then detailed the other times that the ex-reality TV star couldn’t follow through with his promises. “This is the same person who missed deadlines for his Isis plan, his Russian hacking info deadline, we never heard about that,” he said. “I’m still waiting for Melania to give the press conference she promised on whether she was working illegally when she first came to America.”
His thesis? “Trump’s a magician who never finishes a trick,” he said.
In character: “Ladies and gentlemen, as you can see: I’ve placed this lady into a box. All right let’s move on.”
Sean Spicer also claimed that as Trump used quotation marks around the word wiretap in his tweet, it means that he doesn’t literally mean wiretap. “Quotation marks mean it doesn’t mean anything,” Noah said. “This is great. Why don’t we just tattoo quotation marks around the president’s mouth.”
On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert kicked off by discussing the findings from the Congressional Budget Office, “the three most boring words in the English language”.
He referenced the finding that 24 million people will be without healthcare by the year 2026. “To put that in perspective, look to the person on your right,” he said. “Now look to the person on your left. Now do that 12 million more times.”
He also played footage of Paul Ryan who spoke of the plan being even better than he had imagined. “You sound like the most optimistic guy in the Donner party,” he said.
This week, conservative news site Breitbart leaked audio footage of Ryan talking about Trump last year, claiming he wouldn’t defend him at that point or in the future. Colbert joked: “Adding ‘by in the future I mean between now and the election, after that I’m going to fold like a Trump casino’.”
The reason behind the leak is that Breitbart news thinks the new healthcare plan isn’t conservative enough. “They want healthcare as the founder intended: dying at 35 of scrivener’s dropsy,” he said.
Rex Tillerson was also found to have used an email alias while at Exxon to discuss climate change. “So in the Trump administration, you can be a sexist or a white supremacist but you’re gonna wanna keep your science talk on the DL,” he said.
On Late Night with Seth Meyers, the host spoke of the number of planes affected by this week’s snowstorm. “Either that or Trump’s new travel ban is for all of us,” he joked.
Trump has described the talks surrounding the new healthcare bill as a “big, fat beautiful negotiation” which led Meyers to say: “Well, he’s making progress. It’s the first time he’s described anything as fat and beautiful.”
He went on to say: “President Trump yesterday held his first cabinet meeting at the White House. Meanwhile, Eric Trump lives in a cabinet in the White House.”
A report in the Washington Post found that Trump has spent 15% of his time as president at a place he owns or includes his name. “He’s splitting his time between Trump Tower, Trump golf courses and the Fat Old Racist Spa & Resort,” Meyers said.
