President Trump said Wednesday he's building his border wall in Colorado, and the mockery came fast and wide.
"So late last night he tweeted '(Kiddlingly) We're building a wall in Colorado,'" apparently trying to pass his geography flub off as a joke, Stephen Colbert said on Thursday's Late Show. The tape showed otherwise, but Colbert was feeling generous. "Now as a fellow comedian, I get what he's doing here," he deadpanned. "Before a joke, it's very important to kick off the joke by saying 'Kiddingly.'"
"Trump wishes the Democrats were 'kiddingly' about impeachment," he said, shifting gears and explaining why House Republicans' "desperate, cynical" storm-the-SCIF stunt was even sillier than first believed. "But even the Republican sham argument that the whole thing is a sham might be about to crumble, because House Democrats plan to make the impeachment probe public as soon as mid-November, just in time to ruin Thanksgiving. 'Hi, Aunt Margaret, can you pass the turkey?' 'Trump was right about Turkey and Ukraine! Witch hunt! You want gravy with your honey-baked scam, buddy?!?'"
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The Tonight Show's Jimmy Fallon started his monologue with "a special shout-out to all our viewers watching from the Colorado-Mexico border." He read Trump's "(kiddingly)" clean-up tweet and shook his head: "Well, that clears it up. There you go! Forget immigrants, I think we need to deport Trump's English teacher. Today at the White House, Trump participated in ceremony in honor of the Hindu holiday Diwali. Things got off to a rough start when Trump told everyone 'We're going to build Diwali in Colorado.'"
"Trump wants to build a wall in Colorado — even worse, he's going to make New Mexico pay for it." James Corden joked at The Late Late Show. "Colorado has legal weed, delicious craft breweries, some of the best skiing in the county — this will be the first time Americans are trying to get over that wall into Colorado." Watch below. Peter Weber
