Late-night hosts on a special
counsel: 'Trump is going to prison'
Comics, including Stephen Colbert and
Trevor Noah, discuss the investigation into Trump’s ties with Russia and the
president’s response on Twitter
Guardian staff
Friday 19 May 2017 16.22 BST Last modified on Saturday 20
May 2017 02.41 BST
Late-night hosts discussed the appointment of a special
counsel to investigate the Trump administration’s ties with Russia.
On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert was amazed that things had
spiraled out of control this soon. “The word dumpster fire gets thrown about so
casually these days, but when a special counsel gets appointed to investigate
your administration just four months in, that’s a new high and low,” he said.
He joked: “This is a snowball just at the top of a hill
right now, if the snow were brown and came out the back of a bull.”
Reports suggested that the White House was only informed of
the special counsel 30 minutes before it was officially announced. “Sean Spicer
barely had time to dive in the hedges and cover himself with mud,” he said.
Colbert took great pleasure in the fact that it was deputy
attorney general Rod Rosenstein who made the decision as he was originally the
fall guy for Comey’s firing. While Trump tried to throw him under the bus,
Colbert said: “He’s actually the bus driver.”
He believes the choice of the former FBI director Robert
Mueller will scare Trump as he’s “a competent adult who owes him nothing and
who, I’m guessing, has not seen The Apprentice”.
On The Daily Show, Trevor Noah expressed delight over the
news. “You know what that means?” he said. “Trump is going to prison. Well, not
really, he’s going to serve two terms, probably. Two terms in prison!”
He then examined Mueller’s popularity within Washington.
“Forget investigating the president, just make this guy the president,” he
said. “Seriously. Good at his job and everybody loves him? He’s like a reverse
Donald Trump. I bet his hands are huge.”
After the White House released a calm, even-handed official
statement addressing the special counsel, Trump woke the morning after to tweet
angrily. On CNN , the statement and the tweets were compared with a beleaguered
journalist glumly announcing that Trump was awake and angry, which Noah said
“sounds less like a president and more like we’re being ruled by the giant from
Jack and the Beanstalk ”.
Noah then spoke of the importance of the president’s ability
to share his unfiltered thoughts with people. “I know they’re struggling right
now but I hope that Twitter never goes out of business because without them,
we’d never know who the president really is,” he said.
On Late Night with Seth Meyers, the host started by talking
about the speed of scandalous information that keeps arriving. “This isn’t
Watergate, it’s the Watergate express,” he said.
News has emerged that Trump chose to hire the former
national security adviser Michael Flynn even though he was already under
investigation for taking money from Turkey for lobbying. “That’s like hiring a
babysitter who’s still wearing one handcuff,” he said.
Meyers played campaign footage of Trump talking about hiring
a special prosecutor when he became president, in reference to Hillary Clinton.
“It’s literally the only campaign promise he’s actually kept,” he said. “It’s
almost like Donald Trump is a time traveler sent to warn us about himself.”
Reports have also suggested that Trump is continuing to
struggle with his attention span during intelligence briefings so his people
have to keep inserting his name to ensure he remains engaged. “Soon, they’re
going to have to start writing his intelligence briefings on a mirror,” he
said.
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