Stephen Colbert took purpose at President Donald Trump‘s widespread tariffs announcement on Wednesday’s (April 2) version of The Late Present, joking that the nation is “liberated” as a result of “America is lastly free from the tyranny of having the ability to purchase stuff from different international locations.”
“Who’s able to learn to make their very own iPad from scratch?” the late-night quipped. “Why ought to these children have all of the enjoyable?”
On Wednesday, Trump unveiled new commerce tariffs on all items getting into the US. From April 9, round 60 international locations might be confronted with steep tariffs in the event that they need to export items to the US, which is anticipated to have a serious influence each domestically within the US and globally.
Colbert identified how “reportedly, Trump was nonetheless weighing tariff choices till late yesterday,” including, “Now, in case you’re not steeped within the wonky language of beltway insiders, that mainly means they have been spitballing concepts by means of the lavatory door at 3 am.”
Mimicking Trump, the comic quipped, “Inform you what? What if Eire has to pay additional to be on the Fortunate Charms field? What about that? I’m simply spitballing right here. We stopped Depend Chocula on the border.”
As Colbert famous, these are “probably the most extreme commerce tariffs since 1930,” to which he added, “Ah sure, the Thirties Smoot-Hawley tariffs, simply one of many causes we keep in mind Herbert Hoover as our best president, that’s why they named all these vacuums after him as a result of… he didn’t suck.”
“Now, worrywart historians imagine that the Thirties tariffs have been accountable for a two-thirds decline in worldwide commerce and led to a world despair,” Colbert continued, joking, “Doesn’t imply it’s going to occur once more, however simply in case, we should always all observe our unhappy Mud Bowl Migrant Mom pose.”
Elsewhere in Wednesday’s monologue, Colbert mocked Elon Musk after the tech billionaire’s stunt of handing out million-dollar checks to voters did not have an effect within the Wisconsin state Supreme Court docket race.
Referencing Susan Crawford’s victory this week over Brad Schimel, the host mentioned, “Loads of of us are joyful about this partly as a result of it retains the court docket’s 4-3 liberal majority. However largely as a result of it’s horrible information for Elon Musk. Spending all that cash, spending all that money, simply to observe the entire thing burst into flames. Now he is aware of what it’s like to purchase a Tesla.”
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The Late Present With Stephen Colbert, Weeknights, 11:35/10:35c, CBS