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Thursday, 15 June 2017
Late-night hosts on Trump's tenure: 'No matter how bad it gets, it's never over'
Late-night hosts addressed a number of controversies engulfing the
Trump administration, including the Republican healthcare bill, the fate
of the special counsel Robert Mueller, and Jeff Sessions’ testimony
about the Russia investigation. Trevor Noah of The Daily Show began by mocking the notion that Trump is committing “political suicide”.
“I think at some point we’re going to have to stop saying Trump is
committing political suicide, all right? Donald Trump don’t die, people.
Donald Trump is the Transformers movies of politics. No matter how bad it gets, it’s never over.”
Noah went on to address rumors, planted by Chris Ruddy, a journalist
and friend of the president, that Trump is considering firing Mueller,
who is currently investigating possible collusion between the Trump
campaign and Russia.
“So some guy is just guessing that Trump is thinking of firing
Mueller? Well, no shit, Shivambu,” Noah quipped. “Trump is always
thinking about firing someone. It’s who he is. Right now, at this very
moment, he’s probably watching the White House gardener out the window,
going: ‘Maybe if I fire him, Russia will disappear?’”
“I know it’s exciting to think about Trump sabotaging his
presidency,” Noah added, “but this is a rumor, no more, no less. Why
waste energy on speculative crazy when there’s so much actual crazy to
focus on?”
Seth Meyers of Late Night discussed the GOP healthcare bill in the Senate.
“Now, Trump complained that there are no Democrats who support the
GOP healthcare bill,” Meyers began, “but that’s because there are no
Democrats who know what’s in the GOP healthcare bill. In fact,
Republicans are engaged in one of the most breathtakingly cynical acts
of governance in modern history.”
Meyers continued: “They’re trying to write and pass a healthcare bill
without telling anyone what’s in it. The bill is so unpopular that,
according to reports, Senate republicans are working to finish their
draft bill but have no plans to publicly release it.”
Meyers went on to discuss reports that the president, more so than ever, has been “obsessively” watching cable news.
“That’s right,” Meyers joked. “The president is obsessively watching
cable news, so at least he has one thing in common with all of us. I’ve
watched so much cable news in the last seven months I’m pretty sure I’ve
memorized Chris Hayes’ blazer rotation.” Stephen Colbert,
of The Late Show, focused on Jeff Sessions’ Senate testimony on
Tuesday, in which the attorney general remained opaque about the
substance of his reported meetings with the Russian ambassador, Sergey
Kislyak.
“Everybody’s talking about America’s favorite new reality TV show:
‘So you think you can testify about Russia.’ Today’s contestant:
attorney general and last surviving Little Rascal Jeff Sessions. I think he was Spanky, wasn’t he?
“There has been a lot of conjecture about the Trump campaign
colluding with the Russians,” Colbert continued, “and Sessions was part
of the campaign as the first senator to endorse Trump. But Sessions was
having none of it.”
“Sessions claimed to have had no contact with Russian officials
during Trump’s campaign,” Colbert said, referencing past statements by
the attorney general denying the meetings. “But we later found out that
he met with the Russian ambassador twice. But he is almost, completely,
100%, pretty sure he didn’t do it a third time, maybe.”
Sessions stopped short of invoking executive privilege in his testimony Tuesday, though he refrained from answering several questions by floating the possibility of its invocation in the future.
“Let me get this straight,” Colbert said. “You’re not answering even
though the president hasn’t claimed executive privilege? And you haven’t
claimed executive privilege? So what are you claiming? White privilege?
“That’s a classic legal strategy. ‘Can you tell me where you were on the night of the murder?’
“Why don’t you tell me where I was?,” Colbert said, impersonating Sessions. “If you don’t know, I must be innocent.”
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