Lawmakers reached a bipartisan deal to keep the government open but, ironically, "if there's one thing we've learned about Donald Trump in the two years he's been president, it's that you can't negotiate with him," Seth Meyers said on Wednesday's Late Night. President Trump "made a big show of championing the bipartisan talks after he caved in the shutdown fight," but after the deal's framework was nailed down Monday night, Trump pleaded ignorance. "He literally said I had a choice between running the government and going on Fox News, and I chose Fox News," Meyers said, paraphrasing. "No quote has ever summed up Trump's presidency better than that."
All this "might explain why, when he found out that the deal didn't have any money for a concrete border wall yesterday, he said he wasn't happy with it" — although he's typically fuzzy on the details, Meyers said. "Trump talks about the wall like he just ran into one."
On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert was a little fed up with the melodrama. "The one thing everybody's talking about — Trump signing or not signing the border wall deal — doesn't mean anything," he said. "We're supposed to care whether Trump won and Nancy lost, or Trump caved and Nancy's dancing in the end zone. But nothing — nothing — that has happened in government in 2019 has affected anyone."
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"We are celebrating — or supposed to be celebrating — that they're close to a deal to achieve the absolute minimum: having a government," Colbert said. "That is like celebrating that your child finally used the potty — on his first day of medical school. It's not impressive anymore." Everyone knows Trump will sign the bill, and "just like they all rehearsed, both sides are claiming victory," he said. Still, "even if Trump gets his funding, there's an unlikely obstacle on the border to his border obstacle, and it's butterflies — or as Mike Pence calls them, gay moths." Watch below. Peter Weber
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