Stephen Colbert breaks down Trump's 'crazy train' rally in Pennsylvania
President Trump went to Moon Township, Pennsylvania, over the weekend, ostensibly to campaign for House candidate Rick Saccone, Stephen Colbert said on Monday's Late Show. It was pretty wild. "Who wants to jump aboard the crazy train?" Colbert said, in Trump voice. And after a brief endorsement, it was all about Trump, one way or another.
Trump rolled out his 2020 tagline, fantasized about beating Oprah, and insulted NBC's Chuck Todd. "Now, Chuck was a little miffed, so yesterday he asked Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin whether this name-calling was acceptable behavior," Colbert said, and he broke out a wicked Mnuchin impersonation to mock the treasury secretary's if-the-president-does-it-it's-okay response. Trump also made fun of what he thinks a "normal" president would be like, then argued that what he has to do is harder. "Wait, he has to do this?" Colbert asked. "Does he think acting like a buffoon is mandatory? Is this some sort of Speed situation? Somebody's strapped a bomb to the country and if the president's IQ goes above 55, America explodes?"
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