Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah, and Jimmy Kimmel mock Trump's 'Drunk History lesson' on walls and wheels
On Day 20 of the government shutdown "the president flew down to the southern border to ... point at the big empty space where the wall would go?" Stephen Colbert mused on Thursday's Late Show. President Trump "gave a firm meh" on declaring a national emergency to build his wall, because "that's just how emergencies are: You can never tell if they're urgent or not," he deadpanned. "By the way, illegal border crossings are down to a 46-year low right now, so what is the actual maybe emergency?" (A new "caravan.")
Colbert poked at Trump's claim he doesn't throw "temper tantrums" and is "a professional at technology," his newly coined phrase "peachy-dory," and his odd suggestion that the wheel is older than the wall. "I don't know if that's true," Colbert said. "No one does. You'd have to ask someone who was around when wheels and walls were invented — so, Wilbur Ross?"
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