Late night hosts swap their favorite Trump snubs by NATO allies, British royals
President Trump just got back from London for NATO's 70th anniversary summit, Stephen Colbert said on Wednesday's Late Show. "Like on most anniversaries, Trump was in a bad mood, wishing he was with a younger Eastern European ally." He showed part of Trump's long public meet-and-greet with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. "These sit-downs with world leaders are only supposed to be brief photo opportunities," he explained, "so afterwards, other world leaders were caught on tape commiserating about it."
Trudeau — joined by French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and Britain's Princess Anne — gawked about how he saw Trump's "team's jaws drop to the floor" at one point, and Colbert mock-scolded him: "Hey Justin, be nice! Stephen Miller's jaw only does that when it's feeding time and they bring him the baby deer."
"And now the bombing of Canada begins," Jimmy Kimmel deadpanned on Kimmel Live. "Trump cut the trip short after seeing" the video, and NATO allies "talking about him behind his back" is "absolutely unacceptable. How dare they laugh at our ridiculous president! That is our job." The deepest cut, Kimmel said, was Trump pal Johnson joining in the mockery. "Wasn't Donald Trump the one who said the world is laughing at us and he's going to make it stop?" he asked, showing a video montage. "Well, mock him up!"
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It's amazing to learn that "when world leaders get together, they're gossipy bitches just like the rest of us," Trevor Noah said at The Daily Show. "Trump's not wrong — Justin Trudeau is 'two-faced': He's got a white one and a brown one," he joked, pivoting to empathy: "I know a lot of people don't like Trump, but I don't care who you are, man, every single one of us knows this feeling — finding out all the cool kids at school are laughing at you." He acted this out.
"Here's how you know when you're really disliked: When you get a Canadian to talk smack about you," James Corden joked at The Late Late Show. "But this is my favorite part," when "the queen's daughter, Princess Anne, appeared to snub the Trumps," shrugging off her mom's signal to come meet the president, he narrated. "It's good to see that no matter your age, wealth, or status, deep down, we're all still kids trying to avoid talking to our parents' weird friends." Watch below. Peter Weber
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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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