President Trump's news conference on Tuesday was still the top story on Wednesday, and the top topic of conversation on late-night TV. On The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon shifted from sorrow to tragicomic mirth about Trump's comments on Charlottesville. "Mind you, this is him on vacation — he can't even get vacation right!" Fallon said. "Imagine coming back to the office, 'Hey, how was your two-week break?' 'It was good. I defended Nazis. What'd you do?'" Trump seems to be getting "loopy," he added. "I guess this morning Trump went to the Trump Tower lost-and-found looking for his mind."
"It's crazy — I'm starting to miss the old days when we were on the verge of war with North Korea," Fallon said. He showed the photo of Chief of Staff John Kelly listening to Trump, head bowed, then played a highlight reel of other people standing uncomfortably behind Trump while he's speaking, followed by an edited-together reel of what Trump should have said on Tuesday, and a fake ad for Trump Winery.
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