Stephen Colbert and other late-night hosts focused almost entirely on the president’s meeting with President Vladimir Putin of Russia.
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President Trump’s meeting with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, drew withering critiques from across the political spectrum. Not surprisingly, it was virtually the only thing that the late-night hosts could talk about on Monday.
Jimmy Kimmel wondered why Trump had decided to meet with Putin behind closed doors, without any of their aides joining.
Jimmy Fallon joked cynically about the results of the meeting — which did not end in the signing of any formal agreement but which was hailed by both leaders as a positive step.
Fallon also chose to focus on one awkward moment: when Trump nonchalantly threw a soccer ball that Putin had given him offstage, toward his wife, Melania.
Seth Meyers pointed out that Trump also made a series of etiquette faux pas during his visit to Britain over the weekend. Perhaps most egregiously, he walked directly in front of Queen Elizabeth II on camera. He made a list of Trump’s “royal protocol breaches.”
Here are a few of them — can you tell which Meyers made up?
Guillermo, Kimmel’s sidekick, endorsed a new version of Amazon’s Alexa that tells you only what you want to hear.
“The Late Show” made sense of the Trump-Putin summit meeting by turning it into a song.
The comedian David Spade will sit down with Fallon on Tuesday. Spade is the star of a newly released Netflix original movie, “Father of the Year.”
Various politicians have publicly stated that they were tricked by Sacha Baron Cohen during the taping of his new show for Showtime. But it’s far from the first time Cohen has duped prominent politicians: Here’s a rundown of his past mischief with major leaders.
