Comics, including Noah, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel, discussed Donald Trump and Vladimir Putins Helsinki summit
Late-night hosts on Monday discussed Donald Trump's summit in Helsinki with Vladimir Putin, where the US president sided with Putin over his own intelligence agencies when asked about Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
Trevor Noah
Comedy Central's Trevor Noah discussed what occurred in Helsinki.
” If your name is Vladimir Putin, then today was a very good day ,” he began.” Because today the president of the United States took your side in a fight between you and the United States .”
On the notion that the summit marked” the most embarrassing performance by an American chairperson “, Noah responded:” Do you know how hard it is to achieve that? George HW Bush once threw up on the Japanese prime minister, and Trump is now on top .”
Noah then said that, when the summit was officially announced, it was unclear what would be addressed. Then, last week, Robert Mueller indicted 12 Russian military intelligence agent for their role in hacking the 2016 election.” So now the formerly purposeless session Trump and Putin had a meaning, right? It was period for Trump to set his foot down ,” Noah said.” And he did, right on America's dick .”
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This is what happens when you put a KGB agent up against a KFC agent. pic.twitter.com/ dcDmKzyzF0
After demonstrating footage from the press conference, Noah addressed Trump:” You don't see any reason not to trust Vladimir Putin? The human was a top KGB spy. You can't trust this human. On the listing of people to never trust, Putin is right between WebMD and the mom from Get Out.
” Once again, all of this brings up the old is the issue of what exactly is going on between Putin and Trump ,” Noah said.” If Trump was some sort of Russian Manchurian candidate, what would he have just done differently? Would there be a difference?
“This,” the host concluded,” is what you get when you put a KGB agent against a KFC agent .”
Stephen Colbert
” Today has shaken me to my core and I don't think I need to point out that, at 54, there's not a lot of core left ,” Stephen Colbert began.” Before we get into whether our president is the Siberian candidate, I'd like to take a moment right now to remind you of something[ Abraham] Lincoln said .”
The host then quoted the 16 th US president, saying:” America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be since we are destroyed ourselves .”
Colbert went on:” So, Trump's in Helsinki with his buddy Vlad, and this meeting is just three days after 12 Russian military intelligence agents, under direct Kremlin control, were indicted for hacking the 2016 election.
” First the two men had a private meeting with merely translators in the room ,” said Colbert, who then depicted news segments about the public press conference the two leaders held afterwards. The CNN anchor Anderson Cooper called it” one of the most disgraceful performances” by a US president, while others branded the session” the surrender summit” and the” worst-case scenario “.
