Following President Donald Trump‘s boasting of his “actually good” ballroom expertise final Thursday (July 31), Stephen Colbert discovered some very uncomfortable proof to help the president’s claims.
On Monday’s (August 4) version of The Late Present, Colbert shared the information that amid firing officers and revising historical past museums, Trump is planning so as to add an enormous 90,000-square-foot ballroom to the White Home.
“The White Home simply unveiled its plan for a brand new $200 million ballroom,” the late-night host mentioned in his opening monologue earlier than displaying an architectural preview of the room, with its gold chandeliers and floor-to-ceiling home windows.
“Now, presidents are allowed to do some renovation, after all. The Obamas added a vegetable backyard. Truman and Nixon each added bowling lanes,” Colbert continued, earlier than quipping, “And Jimmy Carter famously added a intercourse dungeon.”
“In keeping with Trump, individuals have been clamoring for a ballroom for a very long time,” the comic added, throwing to a clip of Trump talking to the press on the White Home final Thursday.
Trump informed reporters, “We’ve been planning it a very long time. They’ve wished a ballroom on the White Home for greater than 150 years, however there’s by no means been a president who was good at ballroom. I’m actually good.”
“To be truthful, he’s proper,” Colbert responded. “Trump is sweet at ballroom. I imply, simply try this footage of him dancing it up.”
He then threw to archive footage of Trump dancing beside the late convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein in 1992. “Hey, who’s that man?” Colbert mockingly requested whereas watching the clip.
In current weeks, Trump has been avoiding questions on his relationship with Epstein and the disgraced financier’s alleged “consumer record.” Final month, the President hung up on a CNN reporter when requested in regards to the case and the general public’s curiosity within the launch of the Epstein recordsdata.
Again to the White Home renovations, Colbert added, “There’s a great probability this ballroom will really occur, as a result of as Trump promised, the White Home simply accomplished paving over the Rose Backyard with concrete.”
He then confirmed pictures of what the long-lasting backyard used to seem like, with its borders of colourful roses and freshly manicured garden, and what it appears to be like like now, with its white paving stones and white garden furnishings.
“It jogs my memory of that basic poem,” Colbert joked. “Roses are crimson. Concrete is white. This place appears to be like like s*** now.”
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The Late Present With Stephen Colbert, Weeknights, 11:35/10:35c, CBS