After signing 20 executive orders in his first 10 days, President Trump must be done for a bit, Stephen Colbert said on Tuesday's Late Show. Jon Stewart, wearing what appeared to be a dead animal on his head and a floor-length necktie, disagreed. "He has more, and I have them," Stewart said.
He read three of these "executive orders," starting with ordering China to deliver its Great Wall to use along America's border with Mexico. Colbert asked how Trump planned to get Mexico to pay for it. "This is the genius, Stephen," Stewart explained. "When the wall arrives at the southern border, we shut the lights, we pretend we're not home, it's C.O.D., Mexico has to sign for it — boom, they pay for it, done." His next executive order — or rather encyclical — set a national language for the United States (it isn't English), and the last one declared that Donald J. Trump, by executive order, is "exhausting."
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