“Late Present” host Stephen Colbert on Tuesday night time acquired to the underside of President Donald Trump’s sudden fixation on reopening Alcatraz as a jail.
“We now have a fairly good thought the place he acquired his dangerous thought, and it’s precisely the place you suppose he did,” Colbert stated.
The 1979 Clint Eastwood thriller “Escape From Alcatraz” aired on a Florida TV station twice within the 24 hours earlier than Trump’s announcement on Sunday night time ― a station that the president would have had entry to at his Mar-a-Lago residence, the place he spent the weekend.
Colbert additionally famous a really curious anecdote Trump instructed throughout a press convention this week when requested about Alcatraz.
“No one ever escaped,” the president stated. “One particular person virtually acquired there however they, as the story, they discovered his clothes fairly badly ripped up and it was lots of shark bites, lots of issues.”
Colbert identified one flaw within the “dramatic” story.
“It’s not what occurred,” he stated. “However it’s within the film ‘Escape From Alcatraz,’ the place shreds of the fabric of a raincoat are discovered floating within the bay.”
The “Late Present” host stated that may solely imply one factor.
“He thinks films are actual life!” he stated, then broke out his Trump impression: “I noticed a terrifying documentary of us, final night time, about this man Shrek and his speaking donkey. By the best way, no of us, hear, don’t let the spouse idiot you. She seems stunning, however she can also be a Shrek.”
See extra in his Tuesday night time monologue: