Stephen Colbert is again for 2021, and in his first episode of the yr he took goal (once more) at U.S. President Donald Trump.
Colbert jokingly riffed on the ending of 2020, stating that simply because the yr is over, it doesn’t imply our worldwide collective struggles are performed. COVID-19 rages on, and the U.S. is grappling with a president attempting to overturn the election outcomes.
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“Seems 2020 is dropping some bonus tracks,” Colbert joked.
The host then segued into Trump’s Georgia election telephone name, when the president pressured Georgia’s Republican secretary of state to “discover” sufficient votes to overturn Joe Biden’s win within the state’s presidential election, repeatedly citing disproven claims of fraud and elevating the prospect of “prison offence” if officers didn’t change the vote rely, in line with a recording of the dialog.
“This name is like if Watergate and the Ukraine scandal had a child that they made on the Entry Hollywood bus,” joked Colbert, referring to historic political scandals and Trump’s notorious 2005 recorded dialog with Billy Bush.
“If you’re a star they allow you to do it,” Colbert quipped.
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The host dissected Trump’s hour-long Georgia name, stating the president’s lack of proof and incoherencies, in addition to his insistence on utilizing rally measurement as an indicator of help.
“Rally measurement doesn’t resolve who wins the election,” stated Colbert bluntly, earlier than joking, “that’s why on the twentieth of January, we received’t be swearing in President BTS.”
On Wednesday starting at 1 p.m. ET, Vice-President Mike Pence is to preside over a joint session of Congress. His position is to open the certificates of the electoral votes from every state and current them to the appointed “tellers” from the Home and Senate in alphabetical order. On the finish of the rely, it falls to Pence to announce who received the 2020 election — Trump or Biden.
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