Stephen Colbert on Trump's Iran conflict: "This is what’s been keeping you up at night for the last three years"

The Daily Beast

The Late Show host returned after a two-week holiday break to weigh in on the U.S.'s killing of top Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani. “This is it, folks,” Colbert said. “This is what’s been keeping you up at night for the last three years. It wasn’t the baggy suits. It wasn’t ‘covfefe.’ It was his ability to wage war with no understanding of the consequences.” Colbert admitted he was on edge following the escalation with Iran. “Now, cards on the table, I don’t know if what Trump did was a good idea or a bad idea,” he said. “But I do know that it’s a big idea. And Iran is very upset about it.”

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• Seth Meyers called out Fox & Friends' Ainsley Earhardt as a "self-serving hypocrite": Earhardt said Monday that we have to trust the government's intelligence agencies after Qassem Soleimani's killing. “So there you go, you heard Fox & Friends, we have to trust our intelligence agencies,” Meyers said in response. “I wonder though if she felt the same way back in May when the intelligence agencies were investigating Trump.”
• Trevor Noah showed footage from 2011 of Trump repeatedly claiming then-President Obama would attack Iran