Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and Seth Meyers contextualize Trump's 'smocking gun,' fire-Mueller tweets
"Well, another day, another presidential tweetnado," Stephen Colbert said on Wednesday's Late Show. "Brace yourself, this one's about the Russia investigation." He poked fun at President Trump's "smocking gun" tweet then read "the worst of Trump's tweets today," in which the president urged Attorney General Jeff Sessions to kill Special Counsel Robert Mueller's "Rigged Witch Hunt," more commonly known as the Trump-Russia investigation.
"Donald Trump is telling his attorney general to shut down the investigation of Donald Trump," Colbert pointed out. "Rudy [Giuliani] should tell him that just because he's doing it in public doesn't mean it's not obstruction of justice. Public urination is still urination!" Trump is probably nervous about former campaign chairman Paul Manafort's ongoing trial, he added, but he had a funny way of showing it: "Wow, Trump really knows how to make you seem sympathetic: Compare you to America's sweetheart, Al Capone — who, I remind you, died on an inescapable prison island, of syphilis."
On Jimmy Kimmel Live, Kimmel had a good laugh about Trump's "smocking gun" typo, demonstrating a prototype on sidekick Guillermo and turning Trump's penchant for misspelling into an ad for an enticing board game.
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Late Night's Seth Meyers focused on how most Republicans are shrugging off Trump's apparent public obstruction of justice. And he had some theories. "Republicans are willing to ignore whatever Trump does ... as long as he cuts their taxes," he said. "Trump and his allies know that time is running short — Manafort's trial is underway, Michael Cohen's turning on them, and that's why they're raiding the government's coffers for as much as they can, while they can. Because some of them might be headed to jail soon."
Meyers also juxtaposed Trump's belief that you need to show photo ID to buy groceries with his Congress-free plan to hand a $100 billion tax cut to super-wealthy investors, and you can watch that below. Peter Weber
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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.
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