Trevor Noah, Seth Meyers, and Jimmy Fallon creatively point out the obvious conclusion from Trump's 'racist' tweets

Late night hosts find creative ways to call Trump a racist

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published 30 July 2019

President Trump spent the weekend on the attack, starting with an odd takedown of French wines and then an odder attack on his predecessor, Trevor Noah said on Monday's Daily Show. "He's seriously blaming President Obama for the temperature in the White House? You see, this is what happens when you run out of things to blame Obama for."

"Then on Saturday, he took his beefs to the next level," Noah said, recapping Trump's attacks on Rep. Elijah Cummings (D) and his majority-black Baltimore-area district, using language about "infestation" he tends to deploy only "when talking about people of color." And "you don't need to be a genius to see what Trump is implying, because he's not a subtle person," he added. "Like, if Trump was a painter, his art wouldn't need to be interpreted, it would just say, 'I'm Sad' in giant letters."

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Yes, "another weekend, another racist outburst from our racist president," Seth Meyers sighed on Late Night. Cummings, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, "is doing his job by investigating Trump and trying to hold this administration accountable," but Trump "keeps coming back to this racist trope because he's a racist; it's the core of his ideology. ... It's obvious. It's not like you need to play clips of him backwards like a Beatles record to hear some sort of secret message admitting he's a racist." Though he tried that, too.

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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.

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