Stephen Colbert needed a stiff drink to pull off Monday’s monologue. Literally.
Why? The “comedian” spent years pretending President Joe Biden wasn’t battling some version of dementia.
When the June 27 presidential debate removed any doubt the Commander in Chief’s brain no longer worked properly it left Colbert no choice.
Tell the truth. Or at least his version of it during his first monologue since the debate.
Colbert began by pretending to grab a drink with trembling hands.
He then played a montage of Democratic operatives calling President Biden a “great president.”
“Yes, that! Ditto,” said Colbert of a leader whose approval ratings were basement low prior to the debate.
Then the far-Left comic addressed the elephant in the room. Biden’s brain.
“I don’t know what’s going on in Joe Biden’s mind, something I apparently have in common with Joe Biden,” he quipped.
He briefly slammed Donald Trump’s debate performance as “90 minutes of lies, racism and weird golf brags” before returning to Biden.
Yes, suddenly, the late-night host spoke some truth to power about the president, not the other guy.
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“Biden debated as well as Abe Lincoln … if you dug him up right now,” he said before shredding the White House spin on Biden’s terrible, awful debate performance as being due to a cold. He had the kind of cold “where your voice gets hoarse and your brain explodes.”
“I guess you could say he’s … Sleepy Joe,” he added, referencing Trump’s nickname for Biden with a comical wince.
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On and on it went, as if Colbert hadn’t pretended all was well in Biden land up until five minutes ago. No apologies. No self-reflection.
Except…
Colbert mentioned that he met Biden for that March fundraiser and found him “ancient but cogent.”
Really? Biden disassembled in just three months? What about the endless clips we’ve seen of Biden melting down before our eyes over the past three years?
“Our politics have become so weird I don’t know what the right thing to do here?” he said, as though “telling truthful jokes” weren’t an option.
He capped the monologue by suggesting Biden try some self-sacrifice and step down before a second Trump presidency arrives.
“It is possible handing leadership to a younger generation is the right thing … for the greater goodest,” he said, mocking Biden for using that term in his ABC interview last week.
Translation? I can no longer cover for your broken brain.
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