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– The dawn hosts had a lot to work out on Thursday, from certifying Joe Biden as the next U.S. president to President Trump’s ban on social media. “And yet, compared to yesterday, it’s a day of little news,” noted Jimmy Fallon, who called for the resignation of White House officials. “Resigning with two weeks left seems less like a moral stance and more like leaving early to avoid traffic,” Tonight’s show observed host, according to the New York Times. “But it makes sense,” joked James Corden at Late Late Show. “You want to enter the job market before the Trump administration is also blocked on LinkedIn.” More:
- “People were comparing this big wave of layoffs to mice fleeing the Titanic,” continued Corden. “But I really don’t think that’s fair. At one point, the Titanic really did have a direction. It was going somewhere.”
- Late Show Host Stephen Colbert pointed to the false claim, repeated by Rep. Matt Gaetz, that facial recognition was used to identify antifa members on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. “If you’re going to sell one – cover-up fantasies that the troublemakers weren’t really supporters of the president, do you know what can help?
- Even Colbert was not impressed by Trump’s speech on Thursday. “He didn’t want to say a word about it. A man facing a noose will say anything to save his neck,” he said, before joking that Trump would use the next two weeks to “send a meth pallet and machetes to each Bass Do. a sporting goods store in the country with a note saying, ‘Make me proud’. “
- Seth Meyers said there is a risk of violence occurring again. “That is why the people responsible for this should be held accountable from the top down.” On Wednesday, “we heard that if you incite a coup against the United States government, you will face up to 12 hours without a Twitter account,” said the Late night host. But those responsible “should be removed from the White House and expelled from Congress,” he added, naming Sens. Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley.
- Several of the hosts pointed to Trump’s indefinite ban on Facebook and Instagram, and the temporary removal of Twitter. “It’s nice to know that Twitter is finally treating a fascist who incites violence with the same severity as a teenager who used seven seconds of an Imagine Dragons song,” said Colbert. “In other news, guess who doesn’t want to ban TikTok anymore,” joked Fallon.
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