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
Subscribe to The Week
Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.
Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
-
Gripping political thrillers to stream nowThe Week Recommends From power struggles to deadly conspiracies, these addictive shows are nail-bitingly tense
-
What to know before turning to AI for financial advicethe explainer It can help you crunch the numbers — but it might also pocket your data
-
Book reviews: 'The Headache: The Science of a Most Confounding Affliction—and a Search for Relief' and 'Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run'Feature The search for a headache cure and revisiting Springsteen's 'Born to Run' album on its 50th anniversary
-
Florida erases rainbow crosswalk at Pulse nightclubSpeed Read The colorful crosswalk was outside the former LGBTQ nightclub where 49 people were killed in a 2016 shooting
-
Trump says Smithsonian too focused on slavery's illsSpeed Read The president would prefer the museum to highlight 'success,' 'brightness' and 'the future'
-
Trump to host Kennedy Honors for Kiss, StalloneSpeed Read Actor Sylvester Stallone and the glam-rock band Kiss were among those named as this year's inductees
-
White House seeks to bend Smithsonian to Trump's viewSpeed Read The Smithsonian Institution's 21 museums are under review to ensure their content aligns with the president's interpretation of American history
-
Charlamagne Tha God irks Trump with Epstein talkSpeed Read The radio host said the Jeffrey Epstein scandal could help 'traditional conservatives' take back the Republican Party
-
CBS cancels Colbert's 'Late Show'Speed Read 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert' is ending next year
-
A long weekend in ZürichThe Week Recommends The vibrant Swiss city is far more than just a banking hub
-
Shakespeare not an absent spouse, study proposesspeed read A letter fragment suggests that the Shakespeares lived together all along, says scholar Matthew Steggle
