Stephen Colbert told the audience of “The Late Show” on Wednesday that he recently tried to give his staff some hope about the upcoming second Trump administration. “Maybe, this time it will be different,” he said.
He later confirmed that this was true. “It’s much worse already,” Colbert joked.
The grim assessment of what’s to come was inspired by Wednesday’s news about several surprising decisions made by the former president, who, despite trying to overthrow the government in 2021, never took responsibility for their crimes committed by the Biden administration, seemingly on purpose – addressing his incoming administration.
Trump has appointed Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz as his attorney general.
“It’s been eight days since the election, this is our fifth show since then, and over the last week, I’ve been walking around the building reminding everybody, hey, this isn’t great, this isn’t the outcome I want.” I hope so. … But this isn’t Trump’s first rodeo. “Almost eight years ago, we all watched him walk down the steps of the Capitol, put his hand on the Bible, lie to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court about defending the Constitution, and then give a very precise speech about the coming American carnage,” he said during his speech. He said during his speech. Monologue.
“And I’ve been saying in all sincerity, let’s not skate from here.” Colbert continued: “Let’s take this day by day, maybe, maybe, bet against all logic and all past experience, this time it will be different.” “I was right, because it’s already so much worse.”
Colbert exclaimed skeptically: “This afternoon, Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he would nominate Matt Gaetz for Attorney General of the United States.” “During the campaign I thought that if Trump won, he would do the worst things I could imagine. It turns out I don’t have much imagination.
“There’s not enough Botox in the world to hide how traumatized I am. Colbert added: “There’s not enough Botox in the world because Matt Gaetz used it all up.” Of course, this was a reference to Gaetz’s bizarre appearance at the 2024 Republican National Convention.
Colbert also spoke at length about some other shocking news about Trump’s upcoming second term, and you can watch it all in the video below:
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