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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“This morning, I woke up, our son got into our bed, like, early in the morning, and peed in the bed, and so we got out of bed, and the dog had pooped in the hallway right out front and peed on the wall, and that was just an appetizer for the rest of the day really. President McRib is back. For a limited time, only four years today at noon eastern, our long national nightmare was officially sworn in. Another time. A second time. Donald Trump became the first convicted felon to be sworn in as president of the United States.”
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