Stephen Colbert is calling out Democrats following President Donald Trump's primetime address to a joint session of Congress. Following Trump's speech on Tuesday...Colbert went live on CBS' 'The Late Show.' And while the host took aim at a number of Trump's claims...he also had a few things to say to Democrats, a number of whom used props to signal their opposition to the GOP president.
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00:00Stephen Colbert is calling out Democrats following President Donald Trump's primetime address to a joint session of Congress
00:07Following Trump's speech on Tuesday
00:09Colbert went live on CBS's The Late Show and while the host took aim at a number of Trump's claims
00:15he also had a few things to say to Democrats a number of whom used props to signal their
00:20Opposition to the GOP president the Democrats came ready to fight back with their little paddles, okay
00:26That is how you save democracy by quietly dissenting he went on to say this or
00:33Bidding on an antique tea set it was hard to tell what was going on. He continued. I'm just kidding
00:39That was very cool Democrats. In fact, I made my own sign
00:48He also called out Democrats for wearing fuchsia clothing to protest Trump's policies that will negatively impact women as well as bringing
00:55Prompts like a whiteboard and pocket constitutions as a way to stand up to authoritarianism
01:00That my friends is how you stop fascism
01:04in the immortal words of Martin Niemöller
01:07First they came for the trade unionist and I pulled out a pink blazer and a mimeograph take that at off
01:12But he did have praise veiled in a joke, of course for Texas representative
01:16Al Green age 77 who was escorted from the chamber by the sergeant-at-arms after he shouted his objections to Trump during the speech
01:23Colbert said some people questioned why so much muscle was needed to remove an old man with a cane
01:29But it turns out was for a serious reason when security searched him. They found that he had smuggled in a spine
01:35As for the president Colbert called out his misleading claims
01:39Like about how dead people are receiving Social Security payments and mocked him for struggling to pronounce the names of some African countries
01:46Overall, though. He seemed to view the whole speech as a waste of time. So there you go
01:51Another two hours. We'll never get back. I
01:54Would like to apologize to our audience for making them watch it
01:58That's that's time. You all could have spent with your family not eating eggs
02:02He concluded his monologue by saying this in the end
02:05Trump's first address to Congress was much like his first six weeks filled with useful lies and
02:12Applauded by useless idiots for more on this story. Go to THR comm. This is the Hollywood Reporter News
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