Trump’s announcement at Mar-a-Lago, a 63-minute speech during which attendees tried unsuccessfully to leave the ballroom, was almost universally viewed as boring even in the conservative press. “It’s true, he seems disinterested, low-energy and frankly spent,” the Late Night host said. “This mob will have to change their song to wake him up!” Trump’s speech “was such a lame event, even his family didn’t show it,” he added. Don Jr’s flight got ‘stuck in bad weather’, and Ivanka didn’t show up. She posted on her Instagram story that she “didn’t plan to go into politics” because “this time I choose to prioritize my young children. “This time? You know it was your little kids last time,” Colbert said. “It was actually younger kids. But you know what they say — the younger the kids, the less they need you. “From start to finish, this announcement was a pathetic, sleepy word for Snoozeville,” he concluded. “He didn’t drive a single escalator, and the little I saw, I thought: I’ve never seen anything sadder in my life.” Even Fox News cut Trump’s speech, in a style that Colbert described as “real action ‘stop grandpa’s toast at the wedding.’
Seth Meyers
“Even with so much going for them, the GOP managed to throw it all behind the least popular politician in the history of the polls, Donald Trump,” Seth Meyers said on Late Night, referring to the GOP’s disappointing performance. in midterms early this month. Trump “crisscrossed the country campaigning for his clown car of choice with dinks and bozos in key states across the country, and with very few exceptions, they lost,” Meyers explained, prompting many Republicans to urge him to delay the his pre-election announcement for 2024. . “It’s funny that after six years of being bullied and humiliated by Donald Trump and drawing red lines that have been crossed over and over again with no repercussions, they suddenly thought they could start telling him what to do,” laughed Meyers. “It’s like when I tell my kids to behave because this time dad is serious, and they just grin and say, ‘Shut the hell up, go get us some frozen yogurt.’ “I think I speak for sane people everywhere when I say we’re done with this shit,” he added of the announcement itself. “We’re not doing 2016 again. No more empty stands, no more hour-long interviews where he lays unchallenged, no more breathlessly reading every deranged statement that slips out on social media.” Get our weekly pop culture email delivered free to your inbox every Friday Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain information about charities, online advertising and content sponsored by external parties. For more information, see our Privacy Policy. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and Google’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Trump’s campaign is setting up a potential showdown with his GOP primary rival, Ron DeSandis, who is up for re-election as Florida governor this month. “I have no idea which one of these jerks is going to outsmart the other jerk and win,” Meyers said, “but it’s definitely going to be interesting to watch them destroy each other.”
Jimmy Kimmel
Donald Trump has “backed away from an unpopular demand,” Jimmy Kimmel said, though “if he beat Joe Biden in 2020 like he’s kept saying he did, he shouldn’t even be allowed to run. He has now been expelled.” Kimmel opined that Trump’s main motivation for a second term is protection from various criminal and civil investigations. “He’s basically a bank robber running from the cops,” he explained, “and the White House is the dump behind an Arby’s trying to hide.” Trump’s Mar-a-Lago announcement was a “weird, weird speech with so many false statements, it makes you wonder where he gets them from,” Kimmel noted, including bragging that he had “gone decades” without to start a war. “Even Donald Trump thinks his four years in office felt like decades,” Kimmel laughed. “He was so low energy, maybe we should start calling him Jeb.” Kimmel also noted Ivanka’s conspicuous absence from Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday. The former president’s daughter said in a statement that “while I will always love and support my father, in the future I will do so outside the political arena.” “I don’t know, he can’t do this without Ivanka,” Kimmel said. “It’s like rebooting Sex & the City without Samantha. I mean, you need that character.”
