He was the primary sitting president to attend oral arguments, however the day most likely didn’t unfold as he anticipated, and Colbert made a crack about Trump’s notoriously quick consideration span.
“Should you’re questioning how President Adderall may sit by means of a complete day of authorized proceedings, the reply is that he couldn’t,” Colbert mentioned.
“The justices didn’t purchase any of his administration’s arguments,” Colbert famous. “So, halfway by means of the morning, a humiliated Trump stormed out of the catastrophic SCOTUS listening to.”
The viewers cheered wildly at that final phrase, which got here from a Each day Beast headline concerning the president’s journey to the excessive courtroom.
“Humiliated or simply confused?” Colbert questioned, then broke out his impression of a confused Trump on the Supreme Court docket.
“Effectively, that was awkward. All 9 of them wore the identical black muumuu,” he mentioned. “The worst manufacturing of ‘Sister Act’ I’ve ever seen!”
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