House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says President Trump is making his own case for impeachment, and Stephen Colbert was confused. "I don't know about 'self-impeachable,' but he is you-impeachable," he said on Thursday's Late Show. Trump argued Thursday he cooperated with Special Counsel Robert Mueller and Mueller found "no collusion and, essentially, no obstruction." Colbert blinked. "'Essentially'? — that's a new one," he said. "There are 10 counts of obstruction outlined in the Mueller report. That's like Moses coming down from the mountain and saying, 'I just talked to God — essentially, no commandments.'"
Colbert chuckled over the White House welcoming the Boston "Red Socks" on Thursday, though "Trump hosted only some of the Red Sox, because at least 10 players, all Latino or African-American, elected not to attend," he said. "Apparently, they didn't want to be in a place associated with racism — other than Fenway Park."
"Red Socks?" Jimmy Kimmel asked at Kimmel Live, "There is no detail too small for them to screw up — I hope they don't ever invite Courtney Cox to the White House! ... And then later in the day, they screwed up again," calling the Red Sox the "World Cup Series" champions, he noted. "Everyone working at the White House is a dope."
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Kimmel wasn't convinced we'll learn anything new from Trump's tax returns, though. Everyone knows Trump is "a fraud," but "half of America doesn't care," he said. "Democrats don't realize, it's basically the WWE, it's wrestling, but they're trying to prove that the Undertaker isn't an actual undertaker. Like, 'Hey, this guy has no license to practice funeral directing in any state,' and the Republicans are like: 'Uh, yeah, we know, would you mind stepping aside so we can watch him hit someone with a folding chair?'" He was underwhelmed with Trump's complaints at Wednesday's rally in the Florida Panhandle.
Trump did praise his fans at the Florida rally for, among other things, paying their taxes, Colbert noted. "You know what they say: Opposites attract." Watch below. Peter Weber
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