"Protests are continuing all over America, and if that makes you nervous, you might be a Confederate statue, because fans of the Union are tearing down these monuments all across the South," Stephen Colbert said on Thursday's Late Show. Even "NASCAR's getting more progressive," banning the Confederate battle flag, he said. "I guess I shouldn't be surprised — all they do is turn left."
The U.S. Army also says it's open to renaming bases named after Confederate leaders, who, after all, "waged war on the U.S. miliary," Colbert noted. But President Trump said no, and maybe "it's not surprising that Trump's okay with naming things after old racist guys — he did name his own son Donald Trump." Still, he didn't think Trump knew enough about U.S. history to purposefully schedule his next rally in Tulsa on Juneteenth. Stephen Miller, on the other hand....
"Big crowds are expected, even welcomed" in Tulsa, Jimmy Kimmel said, "but anyone who gets a ticket has to agree in writing not to sue Trump if they get sick."
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"In response to the removal of Confederate flags and statues, this morning President Trump tweeted: 'Those that deny their history are doomed to repeat it!'" Jimmy Fallon said at The Tonight Show. "Then he went back to not preparing for the second wave of coronavirus."
"So more than 150 years after the Civil War, the winning side is finally deciding it doesn't need to keep celebrating the side that tried to destroy them," The Daily Show's Trevor Noah applauded. Well, except Trump. Maybe he won't rename Army bases "because he's trying to appeal to his Confederate-loving base," Noah said, but "just take a second and imagine being a black soldier training at a base that is named after somebody who didn't even think of you as a human being. That isn't just offensive to those soldiers — it's offensive to the Confederate generals, too. Because I mean, imagine if they came back and saw what was happening at a base that is named after them. 'My God, all of the slaves have guns!'"
The dead Confederate generals were definitely on board with renaming the bases, on Tooning Out the News.
Trump evidently "decided to pin his hopes for a comeback on whining about polls and sticking up for the Confederacy," Late night's Seth Meyers said. "Of course Trump probably most hates the removal of Confederate statues because he stands like a statue of Donald Trump that is currently being pulled down." Watch below. Peter Weber
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