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Stephen Colbert has made it known that he’s not a big fan of the incoming president. During Monday night’s monologue, he didn’t stray from that point of view.
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It certainly didn’t help Donald Trump that he shot off a tweet blasting civil rights leader John Lewis.
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Colbert opened his monologue by wishing a happy Martin Luther King Day to his audience, then wasted no time poking fun at Trump, making light of the fact that the president-elect cancelled his visit to the brand new African-American museum in Washington, D.C.
The late-night host then lapsed into his go-to Trump voice to read the soon-to-be commander-in-chief’s tweet. The audience, unsurprisingly, loved it. And John Baptiste offered his warm and hearty laughter.
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Colbert mentioned that members of Trump’s transition team said they will remove the press from the White House; he branded them the “opposition party.” The comedian joked that this puts the free press in company with “intelligence agencies, civil rights leaders, Meryl Streep, and non-absorbent hotel mattresses.”
