CBS’s Stephen Colbert mourned on Tuesday’s edition of The Late Show that it will take several years to rebuild democracy after President Trump leaves office. Colbert’s lamentations came as Trump addressed sailors onboard the USS George Washington in Japan, which led him to also express confusion at the idea that the Navy stands ready to sink enemy ships.
After a clip of Trump telling the sailors that he might send the National Guard to more cities, Colbert declared, “He’s telling the military he’s going to use them to invade America, but just a warning to the troops: that country is run by a madman, okay? It will take you years to install a democracy at this point.”
Colbert then teed up another clip of Trump, “And those American cities better watch out because, according to Trump, our military is set to go G.I. Joe.”
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