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‘Pack Your Lederhosen’
President Trump plans to announce yet more tariffs in the White House Rose Garden on Wednesday (he’s calling it “Liberation Day”).
“Like everything, he’s got to make it a spectacle,” Stephen Colbert said on Tuesday.
“Because when you elect a reality TV star, you get all your economic policy via rose ceremony.” — STEPHEN COLBERT
“[imitating Trump] Germany, I enjoyed our time in the fantasy suite, but your home visit left me cold. Thirty percent tariffs across the board. Pack your lederhosen, Fräulein.” — STEPHEN COLBERT
“Yes, ‘Liberation Day.’ I’m reminded of the immortal words of Patrick Henry: ‘Give me liberty or charge me an extra $10,000 for a Hyundai Elantra.’” — STEPHEN COLBERT
“President Trump is set to announce a new set of tariffs tomorrow in what he said will be ‘Liberation Day.’ Ah, yes, the day we’ll all finally be liberated from our 401(k)s.” — SETH MEYERS
“Yep, Trump’s calling tomorrow ‘Liberation Day,’ while every stockbroker is calling it ‘Inebriation Day.’” — JIMMY FALLON
“Right now, everyone who has invested their savings in Beanie Babies is like, ‘Well, well, well, who’s the idiot now?’” — JIMMY FALLON
The Punchiest Punchlines (Administrative Error Edition)
“On Sunday night, President Trump deported more gang members to El Salvador, including child rapists and convicted killers. It’s all part of a bigger plan to make El Salvador more like Times Square.” — GREG GUTFELD
“Up till now, the administration has claimed it’s only pulling the no-hearing snatch-and-grab on bad guys, but yesterday, they conceded in a court filing that they mistakenly deported a Maryland father to El Salvador ‘because of an administrative error.’ An administrative error? An administrative error lands you in an inescapable prison where no one ever hears from you again. That’s like something out of that Kafka novel: ‘Damn, that’s the worst thing I’ve ever heard, and, keep in mind, I’m dying of tuberculosis in an Austrian sanitorium.’” — STEPHEN COLBERT
“Could it be that the geniuses who added Jeffrey Goldberg to the strike team group chat aren’t great at identifying the correct people?” — MICHAEL KOSTA
“This is very bad, but at least they admitted their mistake. I mean, who among us hasn’t accidentally popped a black bag over the head of a Maryland father and then rendered him to a hellscape prison in El Salvador?” — STEPHEN COLBERT
“If only there was a way that they could’ve presented this suspect before another person — someone who, I don’t know and I’m just spit-balling, maybe could’ve judged whether or not the person could have been deported.” — MICHAEL KOSTA
“We can’t get one person out of a prison that we sent to that prison? JD Vance is out there calling dibs on rare earth minerals underneath Greenland and Ukraine, but with El Salvador, suddenly they’re, like, ‘Sorry, no hablo español.’” — MICHAEL KOSTA
The Bits Worth Watching
Paul Rudd joined Seth Meyers for a little day drinking on Tuesday’s “Late Night.”
What We’re Excited About on Wednesday Night
The filmmaker John Waters and the comedian Wanda Sykes will appear on “Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney.”
Also, Check This Out
Andrew Scott plays all the characters in “Vanya,” an adaptation of Chekhov’s melancholy comedy “Uncle Vanya.”
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