President Trump returned to New York City on Thursday night for the first time in his presidency. "The Big Apple got a visit from the Huge Orange," Stephen Colbert said on Thursday's Late Show, singing a line of "New York, New York" — "Start spreading fake news..." Trump was attending a gala at the USS Intrepid, an aircraft carrier turned museum. "The Intrepid is permanently docked in the mud at 44th Street," Colbert noted, "or as Trump would say, 'It is heading to North Korea as I speak.'"
Before heading to New York, though, Trump signed yet another executive order, this one about "religious liberty." One of the provisions orders the IRS to steer clear of investigating churches for endorsing or opposing political candidates. "A lot of people are upset because they're afraid religion is going to have too much influence on politics, but I go to church, and here's the thing: I'm afraid it's going to get politics all over my religion," Colbert said. "We don't want our churches to end up like Congress, with all the Democrats sitting on one side of the pews and all the Republicans sitting on the other — somebody's going to filibuster the Our Father, and it will be broadcast on the Holy See-SPAN. But maybe I'm wrong, maybe God wants it this way."
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