President Trump "fired off a series of angry and incredibly long tweets" Tuesday morning, Stephen Colbert said on Tuesday's Late Show. "You know what they say: Brevity is the soul of wit, and he is evidently witless." The first tweets dealt with health care, because Trump wants to kill ObamaCare in the courts and Republicans reportedly have no plans to even come up with a replacement plan, he said. "But they are working hard on a plan for you to never find out that they will never have had a plan."
"Trump evidently thinks that no plan is better than ObamaCare," and that "America's private health insurance is 'beloved,'" Colbert said, reading this card:
After unleashing his tweetstorm, including a potentially weaselly typo, Trump met with the head of NATO and "talked about whatever was on his mind," including asserting that "his imaginary ObamaCare replacement was going to be great," eventually, Colbert said. "That fantastic health-care plan can be yours for the small price of re-electing the man who does not know what it is." Of course, Trump "promised the exact same thing before the last election," he said, showing the video evidence. "At least come up with a fresh lie! He's like an old-timey traveling snake-oil salesman who made it full-circle back to the prairie town where he started." He acted out that scene.
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Monday's Late Show hit a similar note, showing White House counselor Kellyanne Conway trying to come up with an ObamaCare replacement plan on the fly, unsuccessfully. Watch below. Peter Weber
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