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Late-night hosts discussed the end of The Late Show and Stephen Colbert’s tenure as well as the latest product from Donald Trump.
Jimmy Kimmel
On Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the host told viewers that the show would not be airing on Thursday “out of respect” to Colbert, whose final Late Show is on that night.
“I hope the people who did the pushing feel ashamed of themselves,” he said in reference to the swirl of controversy surrounding its cancellation.
Kimmel said that the situation is “nothing like the old days of late night”, when hosts would compete with one another, as there is now a more supportive atmosphere.
“I hope he comes to visit as many times as possible,” he said before telling his audience that after the final Late Show airs on CBS, “don’t ever watch it again”.
Kimmel spoke again about Trump filing a $10bn lawsuit against his government and winning a fund of $1.76bn, “an astonishingly brazen act” that he “will never understand”.
The tax records that were leaked showed that the president paid just $750 for the whole of 2016, “just about enough to fill your tank to Vegas and back”, he said.
He moved on to the Iran war, which Trump’s sons are “profiting from bigly”, and how this week the president has been looking for more conflict with former Cuban president Raúl Castro, who was indicted in connection with a 1996 incident in which four men were killed by the Cuban military when their planes were shot down.
This week also saw the House voting to advance a resolution to limit Trump’s powers in Iran. “He’ll ignore it like he avoids the weight limit on a golf cart,” Kimmel said.
Trump has also been waging war against the fellow Republicans who “dared to disagree with him”, such as Kentucky representative Thomas Massie, who was defeated this week in the state’s Republican House primary after “pushing for the full release of the Trump-Epstein files”.
But Kimmel said Massie now has “seven months left in office and nothing to lose”.
Trump has also weighed in on the Los Angeles mayoral race, giving support to Spencer Pratt, another former reality TV candidate. In a bizarre interview, Trump said that the vote was rigged and it would need Jesus to come down and count votes. “If Jesus came down, why would he come down to count votes?” Kimmel asked.
This week has also seen the launch of Trump coins, joining the many other products being pushed by the president. “This economy is so bad even he needs a part-time job,” he said.
Stephen Colbert
For his penultimate monologue, The Late Show’s Stephen Colbert spoke about the much-ridiculed Trump gold cellphone that’s now available after a nine-month delay.
The host said it was that the “only Trump item more disappointing after a nine-month wait was Eric”.
Despite claims that the phones would be made in the US, Colbert said: “Brace yourself.” The phones are simply “designed with American values in mind”. He joked that the new Arby’s slogan should be: “We have the meats … in mind.”
Trump also “took a break from profiting off a presidency” to give his wife a shoutout in a strange speech where he lied about the success of her documentary and added that there is only room for one star in the family so he “better get rid of that”, which Colbert said is “a pretty weird thing to say to your wife”.
This week also saw the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announce that passengers can now take an unlimited number of rotisserie chickens onboard a plane.
“Thank God!” he said. “I was getting tired of having to chug my chicken in line.”
