Extract from The Guardian
Late-night hosts discussed the president’s attempts to stoke fear
before the midterm elections by focusing on the migrant caravan
Late-night hosts criticised Donald Trump for his last-minute fearmongering before the midterm elections.
Stephen Colbert
On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert joked that there are “just seven more shopping days until Votemas”.
He called Trump “our fearmonger in chief” while talking about the president’s latest assertion that he will put an end to birthright citizenship.
“What do you call a man, a leader of a country, who thinks that what he dictates is more important than the constitution?” Colbert said. “He’s a dick.”
In an interview with Fox News, Trump was attacking the current policy, stating that it offers 85 years of citizenship. “I’m gonna say 85 years is pretty optimistic,” Colbert countered. “You know who the president is now, right?”
Trump is sending 5,200 soldiers down to the border to protect it from the asylum seekers as part of Operation Faithful Patriot which, according to Colbert, “beat out their second choice: Operation Loyal Eagle Freedom Boner”.
Trevor Noah
On The Daily Show, Trevor Noah also focused on Trump’s familiar rhetoric. “He’s doing something really special, well it’s the thing he does best,” he said. “He’s scaring the shit out of his voters, specifically by using brown people. It’s sort of like Halloween, but a racist Halloween, or as Megyn Kelly calls it, Halloween.”Noah continued: “In his mind, this is an invasion, and when I say in his mind, what I mean is on Fox News.”
He then showed various clips of the terminology used on Fox News to describe the caravan, with words like invaders and invasion coming up often. “What kind of invaders apply to come in and give the enemy three months warning?” he asked.
“Trump and his friends don’t even seem to know what they’re afraid of,” he said while showing conflicting clips.
But Noah does have some small hope for Fox News. “Even though this network might seem like one giant caravan of dangerous extremists, I believe there are people in there who mean well,” he said before showing Shepard Smith’s attempt to calm viewers down with facts.
Seth Meyers
On Late Night with Seth Meyers, the host also spoke about Trump suggesting he would end birthright citizenship. “Well, you can’t blame Trump,” he said, “He stopped reading the constitution after ‘We the people’.”
This week has also seen a woman confess to being paid to concoct a fake story about being sexually harassed by Robert Mueller.
“I don’t think anyone would have believed it anyway,” he said. “ Look at him. Mueller has never even touched his own butt. He thinks nodding at someone across the room is third base.”
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