Sometimes a story about Donald Trump comes out so silly, every late-night comedy host can’t help but make too many jokes about it. This Thursday is one of those nights. After Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity this week that, as president, he has the power decipher documents just by “thinking about it” the pent-up of the late night came fast and furious.
First out of the gate is The Daily Show presenter Trevor Noah, who expressed deep skepticism that Trump can “decipher documents with his brain” when he can’t even “read documents with his brain”. He predicted that Trump would “beg the Jedi” at the final trial and joked that it would be “the first time in his life that Trump thinks something and doesn’t say it out loud.”
Seth Meyers used his “A Closer Look” segment to argue that Trump’s statement is a “wobbly defense” because it requires you to believe he is capable of “thinking”. “I mean, even if the law says you can declassify something just by thinking about it, all a judge would have to do is look Trump in the eye and immediately rule that no. What’s going on in there?”
On ABC, Jimmy Kimmel took aim at Hannity for not following up on the ridiculous claim. “His approach was basically ‘Show me the doll where the FBI investigated you,'” he said. “I mean you have to give it to Sean. When life gives him a felony, he commits a felony! “
“If Trump really had the ability to change things just by thinking about them, Don Jr would have turned into a Big Mac 30 years ago,” he joked. “And by the way, even if he has the power to declassify this information, it doesn’t matter. It is illegal for him to take any presidential records from the White House without permission.”
And more The Late eveningStephen Colbert mocked Trump for using his “mind” to “make more stupid words out of his stupid mouth,” before showing a clip of the former president insisting that he declassified “everything”.
“Okay, I’ll hop on that crazy train,” Colbert added. “Suppose he deciphered it by telepathy everything, like he was wearing a treasonous Cerebro. Which means he thinks it’s a good idea to somehow let people know foreign nuclear secrets and somehow get all the secret American spies out there. How is better? “
Even Jimmy Fallon got in on the action, playing the clip and then jokingly, “Hannity was like, ‘Oh, I get it, you’re going to beg for madness. “
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