Late-night hosts wasted no time in addressing President Donald Trump’s false tweet disputing Puerto Rico’s official Hurricane Maria demise toll on their reveals Thursday.
Earlier within the day, Trump claimed “3000 individuals didn’t die within the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico” and recommended that the demise depend had been inflated by Democrats “so as to make me look dangerous.”
Trump was seemingly referring to an impartial examine carried out by the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University, which discovered that many extra individuals had perished within the aftermath of the hurricane than initially tabulated. That examine prompted Puerto Rico’s governor to boost the demise depend from 64 to 2,795.
Trump’s tweet met large resistance from pundits on Twitter, and even some politicians in his personal social gathering, together with Florida governor Rick Scott and U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis.
On The Daily Show, Trevor Noah made mild of the hurricane tweets, joking, “I gotta say, man, in spite of everything the meat that Trump has had, I really feel prefer it was solely a matter of time earlier than he began a battle with lifeless individuals.”
Noah then performed the reactions of politicians throughout the political spectrum, particularly specializing in a clip of Sen. Orrin Hatch, who, after listening to about Trump’s tweets from a reporter, requested, “Wait, say what?”
“You notice the final time we noticed Orrin Hatch that confused he was taking off an invisible pair of sun shades. You notice that, that is how dangerous the story is,” Noah mentioned, referring to a viral clip from earlier within the yr.
“So now, America would not have to simply take care of Hurricane Florence, it has to take care of Shitstorm Donald,” Noah added. Roy Wood, Jr. then performed a “tweeteorolgist” standing in entrance of a green-screen map of the U.S. and projecting future storms.
S**tstorm Donald has strengthened to a Category 5 because it bears down on the U.S. with a reckless disregard for info. pic.twitter.com/o2BWRqVSSs
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) September 14, 2018
The Late Show’s Stephen Colbert opened his monologue, “President Trump has been laser-focused on hurricane response this week, simply not this one.”
He then proceeded so as to add, “I simply wish to state, not solely is that this a sickening tweet, it’s on no account true.” After mentioning GWU’s examine, Colbert mentioned, “It had been pushed out of the entrance pages due to all the opposite dangerous information about Donald Trump. Then he introduced it up once more. It’s form of like he was on trial for littering and saying on the stand, ‘I solely threw that cup out of the window as a result of I used to be distracted by that homeless man I ran over. Pretty certain he died of outdated age.'”
TONIGHT: The president trumps himself with fairly presumably the worst string of phrases he has ever tweeted. #LSSC pic.twitter.com/n7MvwFNH1j
— The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) September 14, 2018
Over on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Meyers referred to as the president “deranged” for his tweets. “That’s the official death toll, you lunatic,” he mentioned. “Now we know why he’s so orange — his brain is just melted pumpkin guts.”
Meyers then took issues one step additional, saying, “We don’t need an anonymous op-ed to tell us that the president is a narcissist who peddles one conspiracy theory after another.” The late-night host cited a number of examples, together with the conspiracy that former President Barack Obama was not born in America, that three million individuals voted illegally within the final election and that Muslims “celebrated on 9/11.” And, referring to viral photographs of Trump trying immediately into the solar throughout final yr’s photo voltaic eclipse, Meyers joked, “And he thinks that you get superpowers by looking directly into the sun.”
This article initially appeared in THR.com.
