Sure, things are pretty bad in President Trump's America, "but on the bright side, they're also bad in other places," Stephen Colbert said on Tuesday's Late Show. "Take Great Britain. They just got a new prime minister," Boris Johnson, an early and enthusiastic Brexit supporter and straw-haired politician famously prone to clownish antics.
"Now, if you're not familiar with Boris Johnson, congratulations," Colbert said. "A lot of people are comparing him to Donald Trump; for instance, Donald Trump is." And Trump had a point, he added, running through some of Johnson's more Trump-ish statements, one of them about Hillary Clinton. But "there is one way in which they are different," Colbert said. "Johnson has said his childhood ambition was to become 'world king,' while Trump's childhood ambition was to be Burger King." He also poked a little fun at Ivanka Trump's congratulating Johnson on becoming prime minister of the "United Kingston." "Yes, the United Kingston," he said. "So close to Kingdom. Well, I guess the appnel doesn't flar far from the terr." Watch below. Peter Weber
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