"I'm going to say something right now that I did not think was possible anymore: I am shocked by something Donald Trump said," Stephen Colbert said on Thursday's Late Show. He was hardly alone in that, though he did manage to find a silver lining, or at least a bronze one: "I thought by now, after five months of this, that my soul had calcified into a crouton — not true."
Colbert was, of course, referring to President Trump's Thursday morning tweets about MSNBC's Morning Joe and Mika Brzezinski, which he read. "Where to begin?" he asked. "First of all, someone bleeding at your door and you say no? It sounds like your health-care plan." He also compared it, unfavorably, to the Christmas story. "This is shocking and vicious — so, on-brand," he concluded. "Of course, Mika responded with her own tweet today, a picture of a Cheerios box saying 'Made for Little Hands,'" he noted. "Really, Mika? Making fun of the size of his hands? I'm more worried about the size of his brain at this point."
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