Although the FBI has begun to arrest arrogant seditionists who attacked the U.S. Capitol last week, Stephen Colbert asked, “Do you know who doesn’t take other-right terrorism seriously? The president.”
During his Late Show monologue Tuesday night, the host focused on a new report that President Trump blamed for the riot on “antifa people” in a call with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy this week.
“What the fuck are you talking about ?!” Colbert exclaimed. “You invited those riot police to your rally in Washington. They wore your T-shirts, hats, waving the flag! And they cheered when you told them to go to the Capitol. From now on, neurologists will keep photographs like this to caress the victims and say, “Can you tell me who they are in favor of?” And if they don’t say, “They’re MAGIC people,” you know it’s time to get the keys out of the car. “
The antifa excuse was “so ridiculous,” said the host, that “even Kevin McCarthy’s spine-free zone” pushed back against the president. “Finding out so late in the game that Kevin McCarthy has the ability to name reality in the face of the president’s lies is like finding out that Tom Hanks in Cast I had a boat all the time! ”
As for what comes next, Colbert didn’t have high hopes that there would be enough Republicans willing to vote for Trump’s removal from office in his final week. “Republican lawmakers desperately need supporters of the president to like them,” he said. “I mean they have their hands tied, almost literally.”
And in response to Republicans now calling for “unity” after supporting the effort to topple election results, he did not back down. “Okay, let’s unite to punish all the insurgents and their political leaders who legitimized their murderous fantasies,” he said. “There can be no cure until the disease is identified and eliminated and it can be done now. The tumor lost its Twitter feed! ”
Now that Democrats are taking steps to “prevent this from happening again by getting rid of the guy who caused it,” Colbert asked Republicans, “What are you willing to do to help? Because, so far, you haven’t done anything! ”
“They were simply certifying a free and fair election, an election that you knew was free and fair, but you lied about it anyway,” he continued. “Because you wanted campaign money and eyeballs and you were afraid to drive your boss and his MAGIC monster crazy!”
“Your lies legitimized the fantasies of a violent, anti-democratic crowd that nearly killed you and your colleagues and had a police officer murdered,” Colbert stated. “Now do you want to use your unit calls to sweep everything under the rug? Well, good luck with that, brother, because the riot police also shit on your carpets. ”
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