Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel chuckle at the increasingly desperate farce surrounding Trump's border wall

Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert on Trump and his wall

published 14 February 2019

On Tuesday, a federal jury in Brooklyn found Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman guilty on 10 counts of narcotics trafficking and other crimes. "Federal prosecutors are seeking $14 billion in forfeitures, and now Ted Cruz is demanding that El Chapo pay for [President] Trump's border wall," Stephen Colbert laughed on Wednesday's Late Show, after briefly recapping the trial. "That's really got to sting for El Chapo, because that's money he was going to use for more yachts, speedboats, airplanes, cargo trains, and submarines to send drugs over, under, and around that stupid border wall."

Well, Congress isn't going to give Trump the money, Jimmy Kimmel said on Kimmel Live. "This deal he's signing is a slightly less favorable version of the budge he could have signed in December, but even though he clearly isn't getting the wall he wants, he continues to inform us that his wall is 'very, very on its way,'" he said — and also, apparently, harder to climb than Mt. Everest. "He's just hallucinating now, right?" Kimmel asked. "I think I know what happened there. Who was the first person to climb Mt. Everest? Do you know? Sir Edmund Hillary, that's right. Trump probably overheard someone say 'Hillary climbed Mt. Everest,' and he was like, 'Well, my wall's gonna be better than ever, so then she'll never climb that.'" Watch 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.