“Late Present” host Stephen Colbert on Tuesday opened up with some backhanded reward for President Donald Trump.
“You suppose it might be unattainable for us to be shocked by Donald Trump,” he mentioned. “However give the person credit score: On occasion, he takes the time to connect the electrodes to our nipples, after which it seems like the primary time.”
The brand new shock is the demolition of the White Home East Wing to make means for an enormous ballroom that may dwarf the primary residence.
“We’re simply 9 months into Trump’s time period, and he’s going ‘Hulk smash’ on the White Home,” Colbert mentioned. “Final time, it took him not less than 4 years to convey a demo crew to the Capitol.”
With that, he performed footage of the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol carried out by Trump supporters.
“Yesterday on the White Home, Trump talked about his wrecking ballroom,” Colbert famous. “And the one factor I don’t suppose we make sufficient enjoyable of is how his mind is full of cotton-candy fantasies of lavish princely soirees.”
Colbert rolled footage of Trump occurring and on about what the ballroom shall be like whereas talking at an occasion meant to honor two school baseball groups.
“So that you’ll have drinks, cocktails, every little thing on this ground, after which they’ll say, ‘Welcome to dinner.’ You stroll into the ballroom, ‘Mr. Senators,’ and also you’re gonna see a ballroom the likes of which, I don’t suppose it will likely be topped,” Trump mentioned.
Colbert mocked the concept as Trump’s “Barbie dream ballroom,” and ripped the president for fantasizing about his events in the midst of a authorities shutdown.
Test it out in his Tuesday evening monologue: