Stephen Colbert
On the Late Show, Stephen Colbert recapped one of the weirdest and most rambling interviews of a president known for bizarre ramblings, when Donald Trump sat down with Fox News presenter Chris Wallace last weekend. “They talked, and I’m rounding it up here, about everything,” Colbert said.
At one point, when Wallace asked about the US coronavirus death rate, which is higher than in similar countries like Brazil and Russia, Trump required an assistant to turn over a chart, looked at him for half a second, and stated, ” No. 1 low mortality rate. “” Wow, that’s an impressive statistic. It’s also completely wrong, ”said Colbert. “Can we see Trump’s source for that? Kayleigh? Where did Trump get that from? He got that stat … from his butt.
The interview got “really sad,” Colbert said, when Trump continued to brag about passing a cognitive test, which “isn’t impressive” because “it checks for things like brain damage.”
“It is chilling to see that the most powerful man in the world boasts of having passed a test that people are given to find out if they should be allowed to take the bus for themselves,” said Colbert.
And “just when you thought the Trump presidency could not be obscured,” added Colbert, the “horrifying” images of Portland, Oregon, showed unidentified and masked federal troops snatching street protesters without a warrant and throwing them out. to unmarked vehicles. As confirmed by the Department of Homeland Security, the officers are officers from the US Marshals Special Operations Group and the US Border Patrol and Customs Tactical Unit, who are ” it is tasked with patrolling Mexico’s long and troubled border … with Oregon, “Colbert said impatiently.
Acting CBP Director Mark Morgan tweeted that “they won’t see names on their uniforms [because] These same violent criminals use this information to attack them and their families, putting both of them at risk. “
“Okay, it goes without saying that doxxing is bad,” replied Colbert. “I wish it was without saying that having a secret police is much worse. And no, the Trump stapo is not saying that they are only following orders, but that they are only following executive requests. “Or, as Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler put it:” You are actually using the role of the federal police in support of your candidacy. “
“Well, that explains the new slogan for the campaign: Trump 2020, get in the truck,” Colbert joked.
Trevor Noah
On the Daily Show, Trevor Noah also played the most disturbing clips of Trump’s White House interview with Chris Wallace, “the only Fox News reporter who is not trying to become the next press secretary,” Noah said, in what was “pretty much a master class on how no to let Trump get away with shit. “
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(@TheDailyShow)Trump was roasted by Chris Wallace, who was not so impressed by Trump’s ability to identify an elephant on a cognitive test. pic.twitter.com/UTQ4OenqdS
July 21, 2020
For example, at one point, Trump claimed that Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden wants to define the police as a campaign platform, although there is no evidence of that; When Wallace pressured him to show him the language on the Biden platform, Trump sputters. “Oh man, I don’t care how many times I see him: It is priceless to see Trump move, trying to find a fact that he made up,” Noah said.
“Actually, it shows how your brain simply mixes everything it reads into one big shake of information,” he added. “Because clearly, he read that Biden wants to abolish immigration detention, and he also read that Biden wants police reform, and his brain just turned them into ‘Biden wants to abolish the police.'”
Later, when asked about the name change of the military bases named after the Confederate generals, a bipartisan effort in Congress, Trump attempted to skew the role of the bases in America’s “two beautiful world wars”. .
“OK, sorry, what? Two ‘beautiful’ world wars? This guy can really objectify anything,” Noah said. “It’s silly to say they didn’t even think of putting him on the cognitive test.”
Seth Meyers
The interview with Chris Wallace is further evidence that “we have a pudding-brained commercial salesman who is more interested in what happens to a dead Confederate general than to a living high school teacher,” Seth Meyers said in Late Night. . Trump is “trying to convince that statues and graffiti are more important than a pandemic that has caused massive suffering.”
As for Trump’s bragging about his cognitive test, “I don’t know what’s more alarming: that Trump even had to take this test in the first place, or how proud he is of how he did it,” Meyers said. “This may be the first test he has passed and has ever been done. He probably paid an MIT student to come with him, but when he saw how easy it was, he sent him home.
“I really can’t believe this was a true exchange that happened at the White House,” he added. “If you read this transcript without any names attached, you would think they were notes from the doctor in a psychology room.”
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