Late night hosts round up new 'cuckoo banana cakes' revelations about Trump's Jan. 6 'attempted coup'

published November 17, 2021

"Yesterday, President Biden signed his bipartisan infrastructure bill into law, and to tell everyone about it, today he kicked off a road show to showcase" its benefits, Stephen Colbert said on Tuesday's Late Show. At the same time, with coronavirus cases on the rise again in parts of the U.S., mostly among the unvaccinated, "it looks like we're never really getting rid of COVID," he said. "It's like Mel Gibson, he ebbs and flows, but because of a few idiots out there, we're stuck with some form of him forever."

"Speaking of plagues that won't go away," some of former President Donald Trump's allies "pressed the Defense Department" to help in their "attempted coup" on Jan. 6, Colbert said, citing ABC News' Jonathan Karl's new book, Betrayal. "And some of these efforts were what military historians call cuckoo banana cakes, like the one put forward by conspiracy lawyer Sidney Powell," or fellow "high-ranking MAGA nutball" Michael Flynn urging the Pentagon to stop Biden from taking office. "Remember, this was a former general making a call to the military demanding they support a fascist coup," he said. "What is wrong with him? It's 2021 — just text."