"It is an historic day," Stephen Colbert said on Tuesday's Late Show. "For only the fourth time in American history, articles of impeachment were drafted against a sitting president." He explained the two articles and made a joke about President Trump only looking at "the impeachment centerfold." Some critics said Democrats should have waited until the courts forced Trump officials to defy Trump and testify, but Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) argued that waiting would let Trump "cheat just one more time."
"Fun fact," Colbert joked: "'Why Not Let Him Cheat Just One More Time?' was what Trump had inscribed on Melania's wedding gift."
"I know this sounds weird, but I'm actually proud of Donald Trump," Trevor Noah said at The Daily Show. "I didn't think he would make it three years. ... Trump getting this far into his presidency without being impeached is a lot like when a dog accidentally drives a car into a tree: Yeah, the dog crashed, but he made it like eight blocks!"
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Democrats debated over how many articles of impeachment to draft, "but in the end they decided to strike with surgical precision" — and obvious restraint, Noah said. "The good news for Trump is that he's only facing two charges, although in a way that's also kind of sad for him. Because Nixon had three articles brought against him, Bill Clinton had four, and Andrew Johnson had 11, which means Trump will have the smallest impeachment of all time. You know that's going to make him insecure."
"Democrats are charging Trump with obstruction of Congress and abuse of power," Jimmy Kimmel said on Kimmel Live. "Who would have ever imagined that the guy who bragged about being able to walk in on contestants in his beauty pageant while they're changing clothes would abuse his power?" Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) have reportedly been arguing about how the inevitable Senate trial should go, he said, puzzled at why Trump gets any say: "The Republicans are screaming that the process is unfair as the defendant is telling them how long he wants the trial to last."
Harry Styles, standing in for James Cordon on The Late Late Show, noted Trump's complaints about impeachment and responded with an unsympathetic lyric to one of his songs. Watch below. Peter Weber
