Both ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel and Comedy Central’s The Daily Show returned on Monday after a week off to offer up some Olympic-sized hockey hot takes. Kimmel would try to turn the gold-medal-winning women’s team into a symbol of the anti-Trump resistance, while Daily Show host Jon Stewart and this week’s Tuesday-Thursday host Desi Lydic used the opportunity to explain why Canada, which both the men’s and women’s teams beat in overtime to win gold, is better than the U.S.
For his part, Kimmel introduced a clip of the men’s team talking on the phone with Trump after the game, “So, Trump dials into the locker room after the game, Kash has got his phone to glom on to the glory and invite the men’s team and, begrudgingly, gold medal-winning women’s team, who also won in overtime, to his State of the Union tomorrow.”
Over speakerphone, Trump declared, “We'll do the White House the next day, we’ll just have some fun, we have medals for you guys and we have to, I must tell you, we're going to have to bring the women's team, you do know that. If I don’t do that, I believe I probably would be impeached, okay?”
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. steve malzberg
