Laura Benanti made a repeat visit to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to deliver another impression of Melania Trump.
The Tony award-winning actor returned to parody the model turned potential first lady’s interview with Anderson Cooper on Monday.
“I said to be my husband ‘those words are very inappropriate’ plus he said them on a bus – disgusting,” she said, while discussing the controversial leaked video of Donald Trump speaking about women in a lewd manner.
“He explained that it was locker room talk,” she said. “I did not know this but when American men gather to sport, they always brag about grabbing women by the Billy Bush.”
When Colbert pushed her on the sexual assault charges, she responded: “Those are all lies, Stephen. Except the ones where there is video, then it’s locker room talk.”
A recurring joke also revolved around the apparent artificiality of her responses and the suggestion that she is being held captive. “I am not blinking out in Morse code that someone else is in the room telling me what to say,” she said.
“Boys, men, it’s the same,” she said. “No matter how nice they seem, secretly they are all foul-mouthed Billy Bush-grabbing pigs. I’m talking about your husband, your brother, the pope, Luke Skywalker – all of them ... If only a woman could be president.”
Benanti previously appeared on the show to parody Melania Trump’s RNC speech, which received over 8m views on YouTube.
