Stephen Colbert said on Monday's Late Show that when he plugged back in to the news after last week's vacation, he was surprised to learn that "Donald Trump is still president — did no one read the Mueller report?" But there's still an election scheduled for 2020, and former Vice President Joe Biden just entered the race.
"After months of teasing us, today Biden was in Pittsburgh to hold the first official rally of his presidential campaign," Colbert said, and as far as rallies go, "it seemed a little off: The crowd didn't chant to lock anyone up, not one journalist was threatened, and there were no unifying hats!" Biden "took a swing at our current president" in Monday's official campaign launch, but he "teed it up last week with this YouTube video" focused on Charlottesville, Colbert said, annotating the ad. "Biden did not just attack the white supremacists, he also went after their hero," Trump.
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