Stephen Colbert took Donald Trump to process throughout Tuesday’s monologue, slamming the president for blaming his predecessors for the present conflict in Iran.
On an all-new “The Late Present,” the comic sounded off on Trump’s newest protection of the battle within the Center East, by which he stated he was compelled to take motion due “Obama’s horrendous Iran nuclear deal” and that individuals ought to blame “Barack Hussein Obama and sleepy Joe Biden.”
This remark didn’t sit nicely with Colbert, who recommended it was time Trump took some accountability for his political selections, including, “Clearly Trump is conscious that this isn’t polling nicely.”
“Look, at a sure level, you don’t get accountable your predecessors anymore — or your predecessor’s predecessor,” Colbert stated to a spherical of applause.
He continued: “If I’ve a joke that doesn’t work, which by no means occurs, you don’t see me saying, ‘Thanks quite a bit David Hussein Letterman and sleepy Ed Sullivan.”
Per Colbert, Trump’s army operation isn’t going over nicely with the American individuals as his administration has struggled to align on messaging. Not solely did he name out Trump for doing a slew of telephone interviews through the battle, he additionally known as out Pete Hegseth for saying, “This isn’t a so-called regime change conflict, however the regime positive did change.”
“You low cost Dr. Seuss douchebag,” Colbert acknowledged. “We didn’t bomb them into rocks. We bombed them to get reward on Fox. Why did we kill the Ayatollah? Cuz I drank too many rum and cola.”
Watch Colbert’s full monologue above.
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