“I believe that years from now, I think we’ll all remember where we were when we did not watch Donald Trump’s speech last night.”
Donald Trump gave a primetime address from the White House on Thursday night, blaming immigrants and Joe Biden for the current state of his U.S. economy and promising an ‘economic boom” in 2026 (despite his decreasing approval ratings) among other things, all while surrounded by Christmas trees. And like Jimmy Kimmel and Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert unpacked it all.
“Ladies and gentlemen, I believe that years from now, I think we’ll all remember where we were when we did not watch Donald Trump’s speech last night,” said The Late Show host on Thursday. “Yesterday, Old Man Baloney Hands somehow convinced every network to preempt their primetime programming to air a presidential address from the White House…I’m not sure what the emergency was here, other than his poll numbers, because he just played the old hits.”
Colbert played a clip from Trump’s speech in which he said: “This is what the Biden administration allowed to happen to our country, and it can never be allowed to happen again. We had men playing in women’s sports, transgender for everybody, crime at record levels with law enforcement and words such as that just absolutely forbidden.”
“Yes, words such as ‘that’ were forbidden,” joked Colbert. “Under Biden, you couldn’t say ‘that.’ You had to say you had to say ‘this but over there.’ But under Donald Trump, we’re finally saying ‘Merry Thatmas’ again.”
Shannon Connellan is Mashable’s UK Editor based in London, formerly Mashable’s Australia Editor, but emotionally, she lives in the Creel House. A Tomatometer-approved critic, Shannon writes about entertainment, tech, social good, science, culture, and Australian horror.
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