President Trump gave his second State of the Union address Tuesday night, and it "was not a particularly good speech," Stephen Colbert said on a live post-speech Late Show. "But what it lacked in quality it made up in length. This speech was like watching paint lie." Still, "early in the evening, I had high hopes," he added, "especially when CNN teased us with this graphic: 'Trump Leaves White House Soon.'"
The Democratic women wore suffragette white to the speech, "so the Democratic side was a sea of white — and the Republican side, also a sea of white," Colbert said. Trump "started with a call for bipartisanship," then "took a moment to tout American greatness," and bragged about the "hot" economy, he recapped, slipping into his Trump voice: "It is so hot, if it wasn't my economy, perhaps I'd be dating it."
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"Trump was bravely willing to take credit for any good thing that happened in the country," including getting Democratic women elected to Congress," Colbert laughed. The president also announced he's meeting North Korea's Kim Jong Un on Feb. 27-28 in Vietnam — "unless my bone spurs act up, in which case I'm sending Eric." Trump "brought it all home with a simple plea" to "choose greatness, no matter the trials we face," and Colbert agreed. "Well in that case, sir, I choose you face a trial because that will be great." Watch below. Peter Weber
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