Late-night hosts recapped a historic day of debate in Washington as the House voted to impeach Trump
“Let’s get straight to it,” Stephen Colbert said on Wednesday’s Late Show: “For only the third time in American history, the House of Representatives voted to impeach a sitting president, Donald J Trump.”
“There it is,” he said to cheers.
On Full Frontal, Samantha Bee dressed for a celebratory holiday occasion: “Merry impeach-mas, everyone!”
In all seriousness, she said: “We should all take a moment to be excited that Trump is finally facing a consequence.”
“Impeachment: it’s when America moves its president to the spam folder,” said Trevor Noah on the Daily Show. As Trump became only the third president in American history to face an impeachment trial in the Senate,