Following President Donald Trump‘s boasting of his “actually good” ballroom abilities final Thursday (July 31), Stephen Colbert discovered some very uncomfortable proof to assist the president’s claims.
On Monday’s (August 4) version of The Late Present, Colbert shared the information that amid firing officers and revising historical past museums, Trump is planning so as to add an enormous 90,000-square-foot ballroom to the White Home.
“The White Home simply unveiled its plan for a brand new $200 million ballroom,” the late-night host mentioned in his opening monologue earlier than displaying an architectural preview of the room, with its gold chandeliers and floor-to-ceiling home windows.
“Now, presidents are allowed to perform a little renovation, in fact. The Obamas added a vegetable backyard. Truman and Nixon each added bowling lanes,” Colbert continued, earlier than quipping, “And Jimmy Carter famously added a intercourse dungeon.”
“Based on Trump, folks have been clamoring for a ballroom for a very long time,” the comic added, throwing to a clip of Trump talking to the press on the White Home final Thursday.
Trump advised reporters, “We’ve been planning it a very long time. They’ve needed a ballroom on the White Home for greater than 150 years, however there’s by no means been a president who was good at ballroom. I’m actually good.”
“To be honest, he’s proper,” Colbert responded. “Trump is nice at ballroom. I imply, simply try this footage of him dancing it up.”
He then threw to archive footage of Trump dancing beside the late convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein in 1992. “Hey, who’s that man?” Colbert mockingly requested whereas watching the clip.
In current weeks, Trump has been avoiding questions on his relationship with Epstein and the disgraced financier’s alleged “consumer checklist.” Final month, the President hung up on a CNN reporter when requested concerning the case and the general public’s curiosity within the launch of the Epstein information.
Again to the White Home renovations, Colbert added, “There’s probability this ballroom will truly occur, as a result of as Trump promised, the White Home simply accomplished paving over the Rose Backyard with concrete.”
He then confirmed images of what the enduring backyard used to appear to be, with its borders of colourful roses and freshly manicured garden, and what it seems like now, with its white paving stones and white garden furnishings.
“It jogs my memory of that traditional poem,” Colbert joked. “Roses are purple. Concrete is white. This place seems like s*** now.”
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The Late Present With Stephen Colbert, Weeknights, 11:35/10:35c, CBS