On Monday's Full Frontal, Samantha Bee came to bury the GOP, not praise it. "Yes, the Republican Party, home to more than 100 years of great statesmen, died the way Republican President Chester A. Arthur did: violently tearing itself in half," she said, adding for all you history buffs who care about accuracy: "Oh, Arthur was so much more interesting than people give him credit for." The reason for the eulogy is, of course, Donald Trump, but Bee found the GOP establishment efforts to stop him lacking, as well.
Mitt Romney got his share of razzing for his stop-Trump speech, but John McCain's follow-up critique got a stern rebuke. "Oh, don't you dare," Bee said, in front of a photo of Trump and Sarah Palin. "Don't you even dare. The guy who gave us Trump 1.0 does not get to complain about the latest upgrade." The final death knell for the party, though, was last Thursday's raucous GOP "fight club," Bee said, showing some clips of Trump sharing taunts with Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz. "I don't mean to sound sexist, but I think men are just too emotional to be president," she said.
Finally, Bee got to Trump's penis-size remark: "So this is where we are? The party of Lincoln has completed its long journey from 'A house divided against itself cannot stand' to 'you should see how yuuge my...'" — she completes the sentence. And you can watch below, with a warning that some of the language is probably NSFW. Peter Weber
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