Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah, and Conan O'Brien suggest Britain's royal family is stone-cold trolling Trump

Late night comics on Trump's visit to Britain
(Image credit: Screenshots/YouTube/The Daily Show, The Late Show, Conan)

President Trump landed in London Monday for a state visit, Stephen Colbert said on Monday's Late Show, and it hasn't gone all that smoothly. He imagined Trump's inappropriate interactions with Prince Charles during an afternoon tea, dragging in Moby and Natalie Portman; annotated Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump "haunting" Buckingham Palace; and raised his eyebrows at Britain's odd excuse for why Trump isn't invited to stay in Buckingham Palace like past presidents.

Colbert recapped the one-sided "international catfight" Trump picked with Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, noting that "it's not exactly etiquette to call a member of the royal family 'nasty,'" though his own joke about Queen Elizabeth's gift for Trump, a first-edition copy of Sir Winston Churchill's book on World War II, maybe went a little too far.

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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.