Late-night hosts talked about US involvement in the Israel-Iran conflict and how the situation at home should be higher on the priority list.
Stephen Colbert
On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert spoke about the “tenuous ceasefire” that Donald Trump has been taking credit for after getting involved in the situation between Israel and Iran.
The president’s controversial decision to bomb Iran has led some of his most ardent loyalists to claim he deserves the Nobel peace prize.
Colbert said he is “not sure if they give an award for bombing people into submission” and anyway, they “kept bombing each other” despite an alleged ceasefire.
The ongoing conflict led Trump to lose his cool with press, telling reporters that Israel and Iran “don’t know what the fuck they’re doing”.
Colbert quipped: “He is so mad and/or so projecting”.
While Trump had claimed the attack “completely and totally obliterated” Iran’s nuclear facilities, it was later discovered that this was not the case. “So less operation midnight hammer and more operation MC Hammer,” he said before joking that Iranian officials would be singing Can’t Touch This to the US.
Colbert argued that more attention should be paid to how terribly people are being treated back in the US with Ice “constantly devising new terrible ways to treat immigrants”.
This week saw plans revealed for a new detention centre in Florida’s swamps, set to be nicknamed Alligator Alcatraz. Colbert joked that it sounds more like the “name of a game on sale for 99 cents in the Nintendo eShop”.
He added that “this idea is so twisted that even people in Florida think it’s cruel”.
Seth Meyers
On Late Night, Seth Meyers spoke about how US intervention in the Israel-Iran conflict is “wildly unpopular” with voters and even among Trump loyalists.
He also played the viral clip of Trump swearing in front of reporters and said despite Trump often acting inappropriately, “it’s still surprising to see the president drop an f-bomb on the White House grounds.”
He added that “he’s usually so concerned about optics” before playing the recent clip of him joking about not saying the word erection in front of press.
JD Vance also appeared on Fox News this week and Meyers claimed that he only “goes on Fox News to remind the president that he exists”.
Meyers spoke about Trump’s victory lap on social media saying: “You don’t get credit for cleaning up your own mess unless you’re under the age of five.”
One of his many bizarre posts had him writing that Israeli forces would be leaving Iran with a “friendly plane wave”.
Meyers asked: “What the hell is a friendly plane wave?” and joked that “everything in Trump’s mind is Thomas the Tank Engine.”
He said that ceasefires are “good ideas and we should have more of them” but they often involve time and effort and Trump is “less interested in putting the work” when that’s the case.
