Late-show hosts discuss Pete Hegseth’s affirmation listening to, Donald Trump’s upcoming inauguration and the most recent developments with the Los Angeles wildfires.
Stephen Colbert
On Tuesday night, Stephen Colbert celebrated the discharge of particular counsel Jack Smith’s report on Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. “Increase! When individuals discover out what Trump did, his probabilities of being re-elected two months in the past are going to be fairly slim,” the Late Present host quipped.
In keeping with Smith’s report, the justice division would have ample proof to convict Trump, had he not gained the election final November. “All true, and you may see it within the new Marvel sequence What If..? Something Mattered Anymore,” Colbert joked.
Regardless of considerable proof, Smith can’t proceed together with his case as a result of justice division rules prohibit the prosecution of a sitting president. “Which is clearly insane,” stated Colbert. “A president needs to be certain by the identical legal guidelines as everybody else. That’s what makes them a president and never a king.”
“That, and the dearth of inbreeding. Oh no, I spoke too quickly,” he added over a photograph of Trump’s two eldest sons.
Jimmy Kimmel
In Los Angeles, Jimmy Kimmel supplied his studio viewers with an replace on the devastating wildfires that proceed to ravage Los Angeles. “Final night time was mercifully not as windy as they predicted it will be, however we’re nowhere close to out of the woods but,” he stated.
“Each certainly one of us who lives right here have been listening to from associates, from household, from former classmates, you title it,” he continued. “A lot of individuals have been checking in and I simply need to say, the sentiment total is: we’re grateful. We respect it.”
Kimmel additionally touched on the Senate’s first affirmation hearings for Trump’s cupboard picks, beginning with Pete Hegseth for protection secretary. Hegseth was “hammered … by Democrats on the Senate armed providers committee”, who argued that he needs to be disqualified over accounts of sexual misconduct and alcohol abuse,” Kimmel stated. “That are two of the qualities Trump seems to be for in a nominee”.
Hegseth has argued that each one the allegations have been fabricated to discredit him, together with that he was compelled out of two veterans non-profit teams for sexual impropriety and monetary mismanagement. “In different phrases, simply the dude you need in control of an $800bn finances and the safety of the free world,” Kimmel joked.
The Each day Present
At Pete Hegseth’s affirmation listening to, Republicans pretended to vet him, Democrats took their photographs, and Tim Kaine went full Maury Povich pic.twitter.com/mH1WjyXsx7
— The Each day Present (@TheDailyShow) January 15, 2025
On the Each day Present, visitor host Jordan Klepper additionally recapped the hearings for Hegseth, or “dude who makes positive everybody on the frat home has his story straight”.
Throughout a very contentious back-and-forth, the Democratic senator Tim Kaine pressed Hegseth over his alleged marital affairs. “You’re asking why Pete Hegseth didn’t inform Trump about what number of instances he cheated on his spouse?” Klepper mused. “Perhaps as a result of if he did, Trump would high-five him so arduous it will break each their arms.”
The road of inquiry prompted an indignant response from the Oklahoma senator Markwayne Mullin, who accused different senators of hypocrisy over infidelity, saying: “You guys ensure you make an enormous present and level out the hypocrisy as a result of a person’s made a mistake. And also you need to sit there and say that he’s not certified? Give me a joke.”
“Give me a joke?” Klepper laughed. “Uh, OK, how a few priest, a rabbi and Pete Hegseth stroll right into a bar at 10am. Are you cheerful now, Markwayne?”
“I don’t know that this was actually the protection that Hegseth needed, although,” he added, mocking the argument: “Look, we’re all items of shit right here! Let he with out an Ashley Madison premium account forged the primary stone!”
Seth Meyers
And on Late Evening, Seth Meyers seemed forward to Trump’s inaugural eve ball, the place Village Persons are set to carry out. “It is going to be the primary time Trump has ever paid a development employee on time,” he quipped.
In an interview with an Italian newspaper, the previous Trump adviser Steve Bannon known as the present Trump adviser Elon Musk a “actually evil man, a really unhealthy man. I made it my private factor to take this man down.”
“And you recognize what they are saying: the enemy of my enemy is my buddy … except it’s Steve Bannon,” stated Meyers.
Bannon additionally stated that he would “run” Musk out of the Maga motion by inauguration day. “Oh, he runs out on his personal – stated his youngsters,” Meyers joked.
And in response to a brand new survey of vacationers, New York is the least pleasant state within the nation. “Although I do must ask: did these vacationers ever think about getting out of the rattling manner?” Meyers puzzled.
