Stephen Colbert recaps Trump's last day in Britain, hop to Ireland, asks if the Irish haven't 'suffered enough'

On Day 3 of President Trump's overseas tour, he left London for a D-Day commemoration in Portsmouth, then left Portsmouth for Ireland. "Haven't my people suffered enough?" Stephen Colbert asked on Wednesday's Late Show. Right after landing in Ireland, Trump met with Irish leader Leo Varadkar, "and I mean right after landing, because instead of meeting at a castle, like the Irish government suggested, Trump greeted our ally in the VIP lounge at Shannon Airport," Colbert said. "Oh, the grandeur."

Colbert then recapped Trump's "mandatory exit interview" from Britain with Piers Morgan, who "began by complimenting Trump's behavior around the royal family." He sighed: "Is this how far we've sunk? We're complimenting the president on being well behaved, like he's a dog?" After asking about Trump time with Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles, climate change, and Vietnam, Morgan "finished up with the hardest-hitting topic of all: hats," Colbert said, and that actually provided "the interview's finest moment."

If you don't like something, fix it — and that's what Colbert did with Morgan's interview, in a submarine, no less.

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