Stephen Colbert has some ideas for different well-known landmarks that could possibly be renamed in Donald Trump‘s honor after the President appears to vary the identify of the John F. Kennedy Heart for the Performing Arts.
Throughout his opening monologue on Tuesday’s (July 29) The Late Present, Colbert touched on a proposed Home Republican invoice which goals to strip JFK’s identify from Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Heart and switch it into the Donald J. Trump Heart for the Performing Arts.
“I’m sensing you don’t like that,” the late-night host stated because the studio viewers booed the proposal. “Clearly, you aren’t desperate to see Child Rock dance the Nutcracker.”
Colbert then centered on the assertion made by Rep. Bob Onder (R-Mo.), who stated, “You’d be onerous pressed to discover a extra vital cultural icon prior to now 40 years than President Trump. President Trump’s love and mastery of leisure has stood the take a look at of time and allowed him to seize Individuals’ consideration for many years.”
“I’m sorry, but it surely’s true, Trump is a staple of popular culture,” the comic responded. “Simply final week, he was nice on South Park. So free and open along with his physique.”
Colbert was referencing final week’s premiere of South Park‘s twenty seventh season, which went full-on in its mockery of Trump, animating the President to be in mattress with Devil and utilizing A.I. to depict a realistic-looking Trump with a “teeny tiny” penis.
“Now it’s true that two months after Kennedy’s 1963 assassination, Congress handed laws renaming the Nationwide Cultural Heart as a residing memorial to Kennedy,” Colbert continued. “That was a very long time in the past. You recognize what they are saying about those that neglect the previous? They identify stuff after Donald Trump.”
“So let’s simply rip the band-aid off and rename the whole lot,” he added. “The Washington Monument will develop into ‘My Massive, Pointy Penis,’ and the Grand Canyon will develop into ‘Donald’s Gaping Gap.’”
“We should always simply settle for that the whole lot’s gonna be somewhat loopy,” Colbert continued. “Loopy is the brand new regular.”
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The Late Present With Stephen Colbert, Weeknights, 11:35/10:35c, CBS