Stephen Colbert believes President Donald Trump might need been sending a secret message in his F-bomb rant exterior the White Home on Tuesday (June 24) as he mentioned the continuing battle between Iran and Israel.
On Tuesday’s version of The Late Present, Colbert touched on the hostilities and Trump’s involvement. “So, battle over, possibly?” the late-night host stated in his opening monologue. “As a result of proper up till Trump’s deadline, Israel and Iran saved bombing one another. Then, after the deadline, Israel accused Iran of breaking the ceasefire and threatened to retaliate.”
“Trump was requested in regards to the fragile state of the ceasefire this morning on the White Home garden,” Colbert continued earlier than throwing to a clip of Trump speaking to reporters. In response to at least one query, the President, who’s making an attempt to play peacemaker between the warring international locations, stated Iran and Israel “don’t know what the f*** they’re doing.”
“Wow,” Colbert stated in response. “He’s so mad… Or so projecting.”
The comic then carried out his Trump impression, suggesting that the President was attempting to convey one thing about his personal place as commander-in-chief. “They don’t know what the f*** they’re doing. … They’re beginning to marvel in the event that they even needed all of this,” he ranted.
“Certain, they like the eye, however the job itself f***ing sucks,” Colbert continued in his Trump voice. “All they wish to do is eat f***ing rooster, and watch f***ing TV, and play a bit of f***ing golf.”
Colbert additionally pointed to Trump’s claims that the U.S. airstrikes utterly “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear base. The host introduced up a report from CNN, which cites an early U.S. intel evaluation that claims Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium was not destroyed and centrifuges stay largely “intact.”
“Oops-a-nuke-y,” Colbert quipped. “So, much less Operation Midnight Hammer and extra Operation MC Hammer, in that Iran’s nuclear scientist simply despatched this message about their centrifuges…” He then performed a clip of MC Hammer singing, “You’ll be able to’t contact this.”
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The Late Present With Stephen Colbert, Weeknights, 11:35/10:35c, CBS