Stephen Colbert chimed in on the most recent Donald Trump drama on Thursday’s (December 19) episode of The Late Present as some folks have began referring to Elon Musk as the actual “president.”
The late-night host opened the present by specializing in the Republicans’ rejection of a three-month stopgap funding extension, “which implies until they provide you with a deal tonight, the federal government would shut down at midnight tomorrow.”
“It might be horrible,” Colbert continued. “We’d like the federal government. Who else isn’t going to inform us something in regards to the drones?”
On Wednesday (December 18), Home Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Ky) negotiated a compromise with the Democrats to fund the federal government by means of March. As Colbert identified, “This was all upended on the final minute by Elon Musk,” after the billionaire tweeted at 4:15 a.m. Thursday, “This invoice mustn’t move.”
“It is sensible Musk would kill this on the final minute as a result of he’s an knowledgeable at blowing issues up on the launch pad,” Colbert quipped, displaying a clip of an explosion on the launch of one in every of Musk’s SpaceX rockets.
The comic went on to say that he’s certain the Founding Fathers had been “spinning of their graves with pleasure” over the spending invoice drama, noting, “In spite of everything, the Structure does begin with, ‘We the folks do no matter wealthy boy tells us. Wealthy boy makes the large sq. truck automotive! LOL.’”
After Trump echoed what Musk had mentioned hours earlier, some began referring to Musk as “president” on account of his growing political affect.
“Nicely, if he’s going to be the man operating every part, I’m going to must work on my Elon Musk impression,” Colbert said earlier than taking a pause after which leaping within the air along with his arms raised like Musk at a marketing campaign rally.
Colbert added that the chaos might value Johnson his function as Home Speaker, which means he’d want to start out on the lookout for a brand new job. “Hopefully one which’s extra nice than making an attempt to wrangle the Home Republican caucus,” Colbert mentioned, “like septic tank snorkeler.”
You possibly can watch Colbert’s full opening monologue above.
The Late Present With Stephen Colbert, Weeknights, 11:35/10:35 c, CBS