On the Late Show, Stephen Colbert continued to process the end of impeachment. “So what now?” he asked. “Some people fear that now there’s going to be nothing to hold him back – Trump unleashed, off the rails.”
First of all, “that’s not a leash, that’s just a very long tie,” he said. And second, “there were never rails! Not even those little bumpers they put in for kids to bowl. Nothing! So Trump’s not going to change.”
Case in point: on Thursday morning, Trump “began his toxic victory shamble” at the National Prayer Breakfast, attended by every president since the tradition began in 1953. “You know what they say,” said Colbert, “the Prayer Breakfast is the angriest meal of the day.”
Trump condemned perceived enemies, hyped his impeachment “victory” and flouted the event’s theme of forgiveness in a performance that was “so inappropriate that even Fox News summed it up as ‘Trump Slams Opponents At National Prayer Breakfast’”, said Colbert.
“That is the worst presidential headline since ‘Nixon Drop-Kicks Baby Panda at National Zoo’.”
As usual, Trump defended his 25 July phone call with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in which he promised aid and then said, “I’d like you to do us a favor, though,” as a “very good phone call. I know bad phone calls.”
“Oh I’m sure you do, Mr President,” Colbert said, then imitated Trump: “They always start with ‘I swear I’ve never met her before,’ and they end with ‘OK, where do I sign the check?’”
