Comedian Maz Jobrani says a firm "no thanks" to Trump's Iran help on The Late Show
Returning for his first Late Show of 2018, Stephen Colbert taped too late to take on the fact that Donald Trump spent his afternoon playing a literal game of nuclear “mine’s bigger than yours” with fellow sociopathic, egomaniacal world leader Kim Jong-un. Instead, Colbert’s monologue had to make do with catching up on Trump’s equally tetchy and juvenile (if less potentially radioactive) tweet-dump from earlier in the day. For those breaking in their 2018 Trump Twitter nonsense journal, today Trump: claimed personal credit for airline safety; attacked the media with a proposed “fake news” awards show; called for the jailing of political opponents; and implied his own Justice Department—the very people he wanted to carry out a dictatorial purge of his political opponents—were, in fact part of a “deep state” conspiracy against him. Calling Trump’s most recent social media rants the sort of things you can “never take lightly, and never, ever take back,” Colbert expertly held for a long moment before laughing, “Just kidding.” (White House spokes-fabulist Sarah Huckabee Sanders indeed rushed out later in the day to deny that that whole “deep state” thing was the president calling his own intelligence personnel the “deep state,” despite him calling them the “deep state,” in writing.)
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