Late-night TV hosts double down on anti-Trump
by Judy Kurtz and Dominick Mastrangelo - 01/31/25 6:00 AM ET
President Trump is driving into his second term with an aggressive agenda, and late-night TV hosts are showing no signs of pumping the brakes on barbs aimed at him.
“Trump has now been president for eight days. I’m not kidding you, it’s only been eight days. I’ve aged nine-and-a-half years,” Jimmy Kimmel quipped Tuesday on his eponymous ABC show.
“I’ve had three grandchildren since Jan. 20,” Kimmel added.
Kimmel, “The Late Show’s” Stephen Colbert and “Late Night” host Seth Meyers have been some of the most prominent media voices speaking out against Trump, criticizing him with a flurry of one-liners and wisecracks on a daily basis in their opening monologues. While Jimmy Fallon has poked fun at Trump on “The Tonight Show” — recently quipping that “America is rolling the dice with a second Trump presidency: It’s like we somehow survived the first ‘Squid Game’ and then signed back up for a second,” — the NBC host’s punchlines typically aren’t as political in nature.
“It happened. Donald Trump is president again,” Colbert told his audience last week following Trump’s inauguration.
“For the next four years, we get to live by airport rules: Calories don’t count and it’s perfectly reasonable to have a vodka tonic at 8 a.m.,” said the CBS host, who for years refused to utter Trump’s name on-air as a form of protest.
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