Stephen Colbert had a good laugh over President Trump calling Apple's Tim Cook "Tim Apple," and a less-hearty laugh at former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly joking that his successor should "run for it." And he had a few thoughts, on Thursday's Late Show, about the Democratic National Committee's decision Wednesday to bar Fox News from hosting 2020 Democratic presidential debates. "Oh no!" Colbert deadpanned. "But now how will Fox viewers know which Democrat they're going to vote for?"
"Now the folks over at Fox News, not happy," saying they hope the DNC will reconsider barring Chris Wallace, Brett Baier, and Martha MacCallum from moderating a Democratic debate, Colbert said. "You're a 24-hour news channel and you're bragging that you have three journalists. That's like a menu at a diner saying: 'Hundreds of choices, several edible!'" Trump also weighed in on Twitter, threatening to "do the same thing with the Fake News Networks and the Radical Left Democrats in the General Election debates!"
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