Stephen Colbert rolls his eyes at Trump's 'caravan origin story fan fiction'

Stephen Colbert on Trump on the &quot;caravan&quot;

(Image credit: Screenshot/YouTube/The Late Show)

President Trump's "favorite midterms talking point" is about "a group of Central American migrants fleeing north to safety — aka, the caravan!" Stephen Colbert said on Tuesday's Late Show. Lately, Trump "has made up some caravan origin story fan fiction," he explained, with hand gestures. "Not everything Trump has said about this caravan is true — for instance, any of it." Reporters in southern Mexico, for example, say no one has seen "Middle Eastern" people in the "scareavan," and Trump later acknowledged "there's no proof of anything, but they could very well be."

"Look, I understand believing in something without any proof," Colbert said. "For instance, I believe in God, even though the fact that he allowed Donald Trump to become president is evidence He does not exist." He went on to look at Trump's shifting views on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi and Saudi Arabia's historically bad cover-up — though Colbert found a worse cover-up, in a manner of speaking.

"It's not just the caravan and the obvious murder of a Washington Post journalist Trump is fibbing about, and the press has noticed the lies," Colbert said. "And the strangest lie Donald Trump has told about this is his made-up middle class tax cut." He noted that, among other problems with Trump's plan, Congress is not in session to even pass his floated "resolution" on cutting taxes. Colbert brought it home: "Congress isn't in D.C.? Where did Congress go? Could they be in — the caravan?" Watch that, plus a bunch of movie characters yelling about lies and a joke about "terror penguins" ("They exist, they exist, they're known as Ice-is") below. Peter Weber

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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.