Stephen Colbert doesn’t want you to give Trump credit for \u00ab\u00a0reuniting families in prison\u00a0\u00bb<\/b>
\nThe story of Donald Trump\u2019s policy to separate immigrant children from their families at the border has reached the end of its first act with Trump\u2019s executive order that may or may not effectively end the policy, but it\u2019s certainly not over. So Stephen Colbert, for the third night in a row, went in on Trump over this whole situation.
\u201cHowever you slice it, Donald Trump has changed his mind and decided to keep families together. And just in time, too. Melania was just about to turn herself in at the border,\u201d Colbert said. \u201cBut how could he end this? His hands were tied, he said! How could he end this? It was the Democrats. It was their laws, he says. There was one thing we knew he couldn\u2019t do.\u201d
\u201cThe Late Show\u201d then played a clip from last week of Trump saying specifically that the family separation policy could not be altered using an executive order.
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\u201cThere it is. Can\u2019t be done. So here he is, doing it,\u201d Colbert said before a clip played of Trump signing his executive order, after which he looked up and said, \u201cYou\u2019re going to have a lot of happy people.\u201d
\u201cHappy people? Wait. Are you signing your resignation?\u201d Colbert joked.
He then noted that it would be very strange to now applaud Trump for possibly ending a policy he enacted.
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\u201cTrump made it a big signing ceremony to make it look like he did something good, instead of admitting he was just ending the evil thing he started,\u201d Colbert said. \u201cThat\u2019s like wanting credit for solving the crime you committed. It\u2019s all on the new CBS drama \u2018Murder, She Murdered.\u2019 \u201c
That\u2019s a play, obviously, on the old Angela Lansbury murder mystery show \u201cMurder, She Wrote.\u201d Colbert then pointed out the ambiguous nature of Trump\u2019s executive order.
\u201cAnd this executive order is not what he wants you to think it is,\u201d Colbert said. \u201cSure, he\u2019s reuniting families in prison. He\u2019s detaining parents and children together. \u2018Look, if I have to go to prison with my kids, so do you.\u2019
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\u201cA political science professor pointed out that \u2018Family unity policy only applies to the extent permitted by law, but the administration claims the law does not allow them to maintain family unity, so did anything actually just change?\u2019 Oh! It\u2019s like one of those brain teasers, where one man always tells lies, and we elected him president.\u201d
Colbert then summed up the whole situation like so:
\u201cBut even if this was the perfect plan \u2014 and it\u2019s not \u2014 but if it was the perfect plan, none of these folks in the administration or anyone who defended them are off the moral meat hook here because they didn\u2019t change this policy because they thought they were wrong. They changed it because it made 70 percent of Americans sick to their stomach. And make no mistake, Trump folded. He folded like an origami trump casino.\u201d
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You can watch this portion of Colbert\u2019s monologue from Wednesday\u2019s episode of \u201cThe Late Show\u201d in the video embedded at the top of this post.<\/p>\n

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