Samantha Bee opened up this week’s episode of her TBS show with a takedown of Donald Trump’s lewd leaked tape from 2005.
In Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, she criticised the presidential candidate and his “locker room talk” with small screen personality Billy Bush.
“That 2005 Access Hollywood tape wasn’t just lewd remarks, Trump was literally explaining a time-tested strategy for sexual assault,” Bee said. “In fact, take a Tic Tac and grab them by the pussy is the closest thing to a plan Donald Trump has described this entire election.”
She referred to the “adolescent boner bus” and called the video a “hostile work environment training module” before going on to critique Trump’s apology which he shared via social media soon after. She called Rudy Giuliani “the only surrogate not hiding behind a hay bale” and then went in on the party members who have only now distanced themselves from Trump.
“Meanwhile, a whole lot of Republicans have been grappling with their Muslim-banning, Mexican-insulting, race-baiting, disability-mocking, alt-right-channeling demagogue might not be such a good guy after all,” she said.
In the same episode, Bee also covered the second debate, which she calls “the night we gave up”. The debate saw a battle between “a well-prepared if uninspiring public servant” and “a crotch-fondling slab of rancid meatloaf”.
But she also found time to poke fun at Hillary Clinton professing her love of the 2013 biopic Lincoln. “Of course Hillary Clinton’s favourite Steven Spielberg movie isn’t the killer sharks one or the dinosaur one, it’s the one about legislative negotiation,” she said.
She concluded: “The debate was a grotesque travesty of democracy. Trump did to Hillary, the moderators and the viewers what he did to that chair and insulted us all the while.”
