On Tuesday, President Trump's White House communications director, Hope Hicks, told House investigators that she sometimes tells "white lies" for Trump. "Well, duh — telling lies to white people is what got Trump elected," Stephen Colbert joked on Wednesday's Late Show. "And now, totally unrelated to the fact that she told Congress that she lies for the president, Hicks has announced that she would be resigning as White House communications director." She won't be leaving right away — "she has to train up her replacement liar," Colbert said — and he imagined Hicks moving into an apartment with her predecessors Sean Spicer and Anthony Scaramucci, with appropriately colorful made-up dialogue.
Colbert laughed at the statement Hicks put out — "the communications director has 'no words,' and the president is hoping she'll have 'no words' for Robert Mueller" — and then made the inevitable pun: "So it's farewell to Ms. Hicks. Now, in every sense of the word, this administration is truly hopeless."
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