America's late-night hosts worry about Trump's sanity and America's future after his 'unhinged' neo-Nazi coddling

"I think we might need an alt-president right now."

Late-night America is worried about Trump
(Image credit: Screenshots/The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Late Night With Seth Meyers)

In an impromptu news conference, "President Trump buoyed the white nationalist movement on Tuesday as no president has done in generations," The New York Times reports, "equating activists protesting racism with the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who rampaged in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend." The word "unprecedented" has been used a lot with Trump during his short presidency, Glenn Thrush and Maggie Haberman write, "but members of the president's staff, stunned and disheartened, said they never expected to hear such a voluble articulation of opinions that the president had long expressed in private."

That's the "straight" news. On late-night TV, the topical comedians who were unimpressed with Trump's first stab at criticizing Nazis were deeply disquieted about Tuesday's followup act.

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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.