Late night hosts talk about the fourth anniversary of the January 6 insurrection and an uneventful transfer of power in Washington.
Jon Stewart
“What a historic day in Washington DC,” said Jon Stewart, returning to the Daily Show on January 6, 2025. “Once again, an angry white blanket descends on the Capitol,” he added above of a photo of the Capitol covered in wallpaper. snow. “This white, oddly enough, is not as disruptive. That hampered traffic, but a lot less bear spray and Confederate flags.
The host acknowledged the date, a day “that traditionally we now claim we knew was a big deal, in terms of election certification,” Stewart laughed. “Be honest – before this insurrection, you had no idea what existed out there.”
Congress indeed certified Donald Trump’s victory on Monday. The “ultimate indignity” of the affair was that as vice president, Trump’s election opponent, Kamala Harris, served as “master of ceremonies.”
“That has to sting,” Stewart said. “It’s like attending your own funeral, and even the mourners say, ‘Woo-hoo!’ I can’t imagine anything more uncomfortable than standing there while the crowd cheers for your opponent.
There were, at least, also loud cheers when she announced her (losing) vote total.
“Wait! That sounded stronger,” Stewart joked. “There’s a lot of joy in this room. I think she can still win this thing! She just needs it to find 130,000 votes in Georgia! And then some in Michigan, Pennsylvania and perhaps Wisconsin.
Finally, “the certification ceremony that we all look forward to every four years since I was little went off without a hitch,” he concluded. “Because it’s amazing how smoothly our democracy works when we don’t act like a little bitch when we lose.”
Stéphane Colbert
“It’s good to be back,” Stephen Colbert said on Monday’s Late Show. It is January 6 and Congress has just certified Donald Trump’s electoral victory. “Yeah, I felt things too,” Colbert said as the crowd booed.
“And what’s striking about that time is how normal it was again,” he continued. “There was no riot. No one broke a window with their beard.
“I’m not sure what there is to say about January 6 at this point,” he added. “We all saw what happened. Trump lost. He said no. A bunch of cowardly Republicans supported him. They all whipped up a mob that stormed the Capitol and beat police with flagpoles, trying to overthrow our democracy. This sparked the largest criminal investigation in our nation’s history. Nearly 1,600 rioters were the subject of a judicial investigation, of whom 1,000 have already been tried or pleaded guilty. Among them, two were acquitted.
In summary: “The results are there: it was bad. » Or as Trump said in an interview: “It was a day of love.” »
“Yes, love was in the air. Also, bear spray,” Colbert said. “And by reinstating Donald Trump, we are passing through the Orwellian looking glass. With Trump, hate is love, violence is peace, nugget is food. »
Jimmy Kimmel
And in Los Angeles, Jimmy Kimmel also marked the anniversary of the insurrection. “It’s actually very convenient that Eric’s birthday is January 6. This way, Trump only has to remember the two biggest mistakes he ever made,” she said. -he joked.
“I can’t believe it’s been four years,” he added. “It seems like just yesterday that Nancy Pelosi was throwing feces on her desk at the Capitol.” This time, at least, it “happened without Ted Cruz having to hide in a broom closet.”
Kimmel spoke of the “masterstroke of irony” Harris saw presiding over the certification of Trump’s victory. “This is cruel and unusual. It’s like making your ex DJ your wedding to your new (fiancé),” he joked.
“Have you noticed how uneventful everything went today?” » he added. “The Democrats lost, and they admitted they lost. »
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