When the late night comedy shows took to the air on Monday to lament Donald Trump’s return to the presidency, three main themes emerged. The first was that Trump is going to be a national nightmare. The second was that they have gone all in on embracing former President Joe Biden’s “oligarchy” warnings. Finally, it was deemed ironic that Inauguration Day happened to fall on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. To recap their collective wailing and gnashing of teeth, here is an NQ-style recap of CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and Comedy Central’s The Daily Show.
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JON FAVREAU: He signed an executive action on free speech. We’re all allowed to—free speech is here again, which is great.
COLBERT: We can say what we want?
JON FAVREAU: He may sue us, but we can say what we want.
COLBERT: Wow. Go [bleep] yourself.
LOVETT: It's like, it was liberation day.
COLBERT: I feel freer already.
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