There was plenty of Trump-related news for Stephen Colbert to get to on Tuesday night: the GOP’s latest attempt to pass the American Health Care Act, that call with Vladimir Putin (“You know things are bad when Putin is the voice of restraint”), the rolling back of Michelle Obama’s healthy school lunch program. But the biggest news for the Late Show host continued to be the president’s proud dismissal of the Constitution—in this case, the First Amendment.
“They want to get rid of the First Amendment?” Colbert asked, after playing a tape of Reince Priebus saying the administration was “looking at” changing national libel laws. “Stop the presses! Seriously: Stop the presses.” In fact, the Late Show exclusively revealed a draft of the administration’s proposed change, and it was, let’s say, quite Trumpian:
Congress shall make no law against religion, except for the scary ones. Or abridging the freedom speech, or of the press; unless it is fake news like failing New York Times! Watch Fox & Friends.
Trump got at least one thing wrong there: The Times isn’t exactly failing right now.
