Stephen Colbert opened Tuesday’s (August 5) episode of The Late Present by specializing in the most recent Donald Trump drama, referring to the president’s most up-to-date actions as simply “plain dumb.”
“So usually nowadays, of us, the information goes from silly to unhappy to sadly silly. However in the present day, I’m glad to report it’s simply plain dumb,” he advised viewers on the high of his opening monologue. “Late this morning, the president held an impromptu press convention from a extremely uncommon location.”
The late-night host then threw to footage of Trump on the roof of the White Home. Within the clip, a reporter is heard shouting, “Sir, why are you on the roof?”
“That’s not a query you hear requested of a world chief that always,” Colbert mentioned, quipping, “It’s proper up there with, ‘Your majesty, the place are your pants?’”
Colbert continued to investigate the bizarre clip, together with Trump utilizing hand alerts to try to talk. “I don’t know what that is,” the comic acknowledged, mimicking Trump’s hand motions. “I feel he’s saying, ‘Look, the Capitol dome is a D-cup.’”
In one other a part of the video, Trump shouts down on the reporters, although it’s laborious to make out what he’s saying. “What does that imply?” one reporter yells again.
“Yeah, what does that imply?” Colbert shouted, trying as much as the digicam in an overhead shot. “What does any of this imply? How are you the man in cost? Why do we have now to fake it’s regular when an previous man wanders round a roof and shouts at us?”
Elsewhere in Tuesday’s monologue, Colbert regarded on the outcomes of the most recent Gallup ballot, which ranked 14 distinguished world figures when it comes to reputation. On the high of that record was Pope Leo XIV, with the second hottest American on the record being Sen. Bernie Sanders.
“Which logically means Bernie might be the following Pope,” Colbert joked.
As for members of Trump’s cupboard, Colbert famous, “The Gallup of us discovered that everybody within the Trump administration is unpopular, however the least unpopular of the unpopular seems to be Well being and Human Providers Secretary and offended bell pepper, RFK Jr.”
Colbert added that RFK Jr. may also be falling out of favor with Trump, pointing to a latest press convention, by which he “let it slip that Trump recurrently grills him on the cellphone, asking, ‘Why aren’t individuals more healthy but?’”
Placing on his Trump impression, Colbert joked, “Hey Bobby, individuals are having bother with their ankles. Have you ever seen the individuals’s cankles? The individuals’s legs are blowing up like bouncy castles down there. I imply, the individuals might barely stand up on the roof this morning.”
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The Late Present With Stephen Colbert, Weeknights, 11:35/10:35c, CBS