Colbert at Trump’s first rally since the Capitol riots: “Why is he allowed to rally after that?” | Late night TV tour

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Stephen Colbert

While the other hosts are having their summer break for this week, Stephen Colbert prepared a rally for Trump held over the weekend in Wellington, Ohio, his first since the January 6 uprising at the Capitol “Why is he allowed to gather then?” The host of the late show is angry. “After the assassination, John Wilkes Booth was not hailed on Broadway for a run out of I Shot Lincoln: The Musical!”

Colbert said the former president seemed to have nothing new to say in his 90-minute speech, as he stumbled into familiar refrain and lies as if he was “reading a letter from last summer.” He digressed from Nancy Pelosi to Hillary Clinton to the old phrase “Hydroxychloroquine really works!”

“No one cares about that now!” Colbert shouted. “We have a vaccine! I can’t imagine anything more tiring than the Covid drug from 12 months ago.”

In typical Trump fashion, he misspelled a few words. At one point, while trying to reference the first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong, Trump said the United States “sent a brave young man from Ohio to a factory.”

“Really? To a plant?” Colbert replied. “Yes, it was a brave young man from Ohio named Jack, and the nation sent him to climb that beanstalk, where he climbed into Feefifofum.”

“He’s trying to talk about Neil Armstrong, but he said plant when he meant the planet, which isn’t where Neil Armstrong went,” he added. This is like trying to describe George Washington by saying, ‘You know who I mean! The man on the money with cherry tree teeth, with his drawing crossing Deli meat, you know!’

In other news, former Trump attorney general William Barr continues to publicly distance himself from his former boss. In an interview with The Atlantic published over the weekend, Barr claimed he had always thought Trump’s baseless allegations of election fraud were “all nonsense.”

“And Bill Barr should know – he’s spent the last two years and his lips very close to that bull’s ass,” Colbert said sarcastically.

Barr also said Mitch McConnell urged him to speak out against the big lie of vote rigging in the immediate aftermath of the election, while the Senate minority leader remained silent. “McConnell was going to tell the truth himself last December, but he needed the ex-president’s help to ensure that the Republican Party won the Georgia run-off, which it lost,” Colbert explained. “In the end, Mitch McConnell sold his soul for nothing. So, a very fair price.”

Colbert also touched on the nearly trillion-dollar infrastructure proposal that Joe Biden embraced after a bipartisan group of 21 senators struck a deal last week. In an effort to garner support from his colleagues, Bill Cassidy, a Republican senator from Louisiana, called for his wife’s support and called roads and bridges a “woman’s problem” because they were “shopping.”

In an interview Sunday with the press, Cassidy explained that women “apart from going to work, they take their kids to school or do the shopping. The more time you spend on this road, the less time you spend doing things of higher value. So if you talk With her, you’d say that’s a good bill.”

And then you’ll explain, Colbert added, ‘I mean the infrastructure bill, not my husband Bill. Have you heard the nonsense he says about women? “

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