“The last 10 years of Donald Trump worming his way into our brains have been weird,” said Stephen Colbert on Tuesday evening. “But yesterday might have been the weirdest weird that ever weirded. And I’ll just let this actual 100% real, we did not make this up or change this footage in any way, CSpan report sum up the times we’re living in.”
Colbert then played a clip of CSpan reporting that Trump took questions outside the White House after having McDonald’s delivered via the food delivery app DoorDash. Trump talked about a number of topics, including the war in Iran and a controversial AI-generated image he posted to Truth Social that depicted him as Jesus.
“Even CSpan can’t make that sound normal,” the Late Show host said. “If you just woke up from a coma and that report was the first thing you saw, you’d ask the doctor to put you back in.”
In a rare move, Trump has since deleted the image, but “the damage has been done”, with even some staunch supporters now wondering if he’s the Antichrist, at least according to a report from Wired. “It’s an interesting theological question,” said Colbert. “Who are any of us to judge whether – yes, yes he is.”
Over the weekend, Trump also posted a long message on Truth Social criticizing Pope Leo XIV, calling him “weak” and a “loser”.
“Why would you start a beef with the pope?” Colbert wondered, as according to a new NBC poll, Pope Leo leads most public figures in the US in approval ratings. “It’s gotta piss Trump off to learn that the most popular guy on the planet lives in a palace dripping with gold and wears an insane hat and it’s not him.”
Gonna really miss Colbert.
Ridiculing Trump is pretty low hanging fruit in comedy.
That also doesn’t mean it should ever stop happening.
Idk, maybe if we joked less about it politicians would get more serious about removing him from power. I used to love Colbert and Stewart but after 20 years of hearing the same jokes and shit just gets worse i cant watch it anymore. Trump rapes children, there’s nothing funny about that. He blows up innocent people around the world to create distractions from his investigations. And he has widespread support from people who do not give a fuck about ruining the country as long as they make a profit this quarter. There’s nothing funny about that. And it clearly doesn’t hurt trump at all, he’s still president still raping children and stealing billions in taxpayer money in the open.
I think you’re right. Satire is for when there’s a subsurface level of corruption that needs to be brought to light in an entertaining way.
These times are not for satire. These times are for protests.
That’s a fair criticism, so I’ll only say that before there was a Colbert or Stewart, there were stupid fucking loons who went all dictator on their people and a population that supported their idiocy and cheered them on.
Mussolini was famously a fucking idiot who could barely tie his shoes if they weren’t done for him. Same with Hitler.
So not having satire ripping them a new one every week didn’t stop them from happening, or what came after. It won’t here either, but at least it can entertain some people and reach some people with humor that seriousness couldn’t.
If people want serious, mainstream news, well, that’s still there, maybe just not in the US though.
Yeah im not saying Colbert should stop what he’s doing, i think for young people it’s very educational. He’s doing a great thing.
But as grown ass adults we need to stop looking to comedians for leadership. We shouldn’t sit at home and bitching at the TV while watching Colbert or Kimmel or Stewart. We need to be taking action, showing up to town halls, or more generally engaging in civics.
Absolutely agreed with that. The satire shows should be a treat, not the main course of political discourse/learning.
Happy to see him leaning into “weird”, it’s the one word that universally gets under their skin.
Pope Leo leads most public figures in the US in approval ratings.
In theory, could the Pope run for president (given that he’s a U.S. citizen by birth, etc.)?
Absolutely would be eligible
It’s a rare but not unheard of scenario for a US citizen to serve as a foreign head of state. A brief read makes it sound like a thorny issue. The US could theoretically attempt to strip his citizenship. Sounds like there was a Supreme Court decision in 1980 that would make that difficult… but there is a new Supreme Court.
He could, yes. But let’s remember america flipped its shit when a catholic simply won the office. It was claimed JFK would put the Vatican interests ahead of the country, and he took deliberate steps to distance himself. I couldn’t begin to imagine what the response would be if Leo tried it.
Biden is Catholic too
Probably, but I would think as leader of the Holy See he has more power than any individual nation leader does … so why change?
The… the… the PoPresident?
A lot of Popes probably would have seen eye to eye with Trump on a lot of things. Things like raping children.
Anyone still believing in religion has this coming.
Religion has no place in politics, but US is so fucking behind, it’s their one defining factor. God this, god that…
It’s almost like the US needs some sort of underlying principle like, just spitballing here, “separation of religion and government”, or “separation of church and stateliness” or something. Nah, that’ll never catch on.
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*in world. Spirituality is fine though
“Even CSpan can’t make that sound normal,” the Late Show host said.
I was wondering for a second if Colbert had dies…
There are dozens of us. Dozens!
Because Trump is an imbecile.
