We learned Wednesday that President Trump admitted to Bob Woodward back in February and March "he purposefully downplayed the risk of coronavirus," Trevor Noah said on Thursday's Daily Show. "Now, when normal people get caught on tape admitting that they lied to an entire country, they usually apologize. But Donald Trump didn't become president by being normal, so yesterday he doubled down."
"The one upside of being stuck in this psychotic relationship with Trump for the last four years is that by now, we've pretty much learned every pattern that every Trump scandal takes," Noah said: "Trump steps into sh-t, and then Trumpworld comes out and explains that he didn't actually step in sh-t," and right on cue, Fox News "quickly rallied to Trump's corner to explain why lying to America about a deadly pandemic was the right move all along."
Well, all except Tucker Carlson, who "seemed to realize that Donald Trump's lie had done some real damage" and "took the bold step of placing the blame squarely on" ... Lindsey Graham, Noah said. "This is the problem with defending Trump at all costs: Eventually, you're forced to invent the most ridiculous conspiracy theories."
"Even the Fox News reality-distortion machine couldn't hide the damning truth, because it was in the president's own words," Late Night's Seth Meyers said. So Republican lawmakers used a different, time-tested strategy: "They're pretending they haven't heard about it."
Trump's options weren't "'lie' or 'panic,'" Meyers noted. "There's a third option, where you tell people the truth and then do something about it, which would reassure everyone. But no, we elected the guy who puts a piece of duct tape over the Check Engine light," and in this case "he was dumb enough to confess something so cartoonishly evil to a reporter who is recording him."
"Trump complained about the fallout on Twitter and described it as 'the political hit job by rapidly fading Bob Woodward and his boring book,'" Jimmy Fallon said at The Tonight Show. "Trump was like, 'Total hit job. I spoke to a reporter 18 times, and he recorded it and wrote down my exact words — fake!'"
deep_pants_mcgee on September 10th, 2020 at 15:03 UTC »
I love how the unspoken part of that is "Graham has to know how fucking stupid Trump is, so letting him do an interview is obviously sabotage."
HighOnGoofballs on September 10th, 2020 at 14:49 UTC »
If allowing the president to talk is throwing him under the bus just how fucking stupid are you admitting he is?
GoodbyeTobyseeya1 on September 10th, 2020 at 14:44 UTC »
The argument that the man holding the highest office in the land shouldn't be held responsible for spilling his guts in a meeting and was tricked into doing so is absolutely fucking absurd.