Stephen Colbert
After a week of vacation, Stephen Colbert returned to the Late Show on Monday night to discuss the “career implosion” of Florida congressman Matt Gaetz, a former Trump footman now under investigation by the justice department for violating the laws. federal sex trafficking agencies.
According to federal investigators, Gaetz, 38, paid for the travel expenses of a 17-year-old girl with whom he allegedly had a sexual relationship (Gaetz denied this and alleged “extortion”). The investigation was opened several months ago by then-Trump Attorney General William Barr.
“Gaetz-Gaete”, as Colbert called the despicable case, also includes Congressman Joel Greenberg’s longtime friend who was indicted last summer on several charges, including child sex trafficking and financial support for people in exchange for sex .
According to the Washington Post, Gaetz boasted that his friend had found several women for him and that they sometimes shared sexual partners. “It sounds risky, but remember: Gaetz always wears protection,” Colbert joked about a photo of Gaetz wearing a gas mask on Capitol Hill in one of his many eye-catching stunts.
The justice department claims that Gaetz and Greenberg paid for hotel rooms for women, where the group was ecstatic before having sex. “Now, if you’re not familiar with ecstasy, it’s the feeling you get when you hear bad news about Matt Gaetz,” said Colbert.
Gaetz denied the accusations, although New York Times reporters saw receipts for women from CashApp and Apple Pay. “How dumb is Matt Gaetz?” Colbert was delighted, mocking his logic: “Man, man, don’t leave a trail of paper! Use the CashApp that way, it goes to the cloud, and then when it rains, the evidence disappears. “
Gaetz also reportedly boasted about his sexual exploits, including showing pictures of naked women to colleagues on the floor of the Chamber. “Remember, this is where he works,” said Colbert. “So those mandatory sexual harassment trainings in your office, where the examples they set are so outrageous that you’re like, ‘Who is this for? It’s for Matt Gaetz. “
Trevor Noah
Trevor Noah also returned from a week away to recap the corporate tug of war in Georgia after Republican lawmakers passed one of the country’s most restrictive voting laws. The move, part of a wave of bills backed by the Republican Party to limit voting after a record turnout in 2020, pushed Joe Biden into the White House and became the Senate, would shorten the window for early or absent voting, move control. local elections for (mainly Republican state legislators and criminalize the distribution of food or water to people waiting in line to vote.
“After losing in November, the Republicans of Georgia basically decided to make the vote more like the worst part of flying,” said the presenter of the Daily Show, imitating a Georgia legislator: “OK, so there will be very long lines, no one can have water, and if you’re late, go fuck yourself. “
After Governor Brian Kemp approved the measure, “Democrats were angry, blacks were angry, the president was angry,” Noah continued. “So, looking for help, they turned to the only people whose opinions can really count for something: giant corporations.”
Facing pressure from civil rights groups to respond to a law targeting minority voters, Major League Baseball withdrew the Atlanta All-Star game, while Georgia-based companies Coca-Cola and Delta Airlines criticized the move as “based on a lie”.
“It’s great to see corporations use their influence in support of voting rights, but just to be clear, they didn’t do it because of the heart, right? They did this because liberals were threatening to boycott them if they did not speak out, ”said Noah.
“It’s really amazing what you can do with companies when you threaten to boycott. I mean just the threat boycott has caused Coca-Cola to support a group of voting rights, ”he added. “Think about it: it means that with a little more pressure, we could probably convince Coca to put cocaine back in its drinks.”
Jimmy Kimmel
And in Los Angeles, Jimmy Kimmel also mentioned the MLB’s decision to move Atlanta’s All-Star game. “Baseball did the right thing and pulled the game and now the red hatters are mad at them,” he explained, citing a Trump statement that included the usual boast about the “radical left” and called for a boycott of Delta and Coca . Cola, among other companies.
“Donald Trump asking for a boycott of Coca-Cola is beautiful,” said Kimmel. “He had a Coke Diet button on the Oval Office table. The man urinates aspartame, right?
“It’s especially funny because with all of your complaints about canceling the culture – this guy tried to cancel more culture than anyone!” he added. “If you hear Donald Trump, you will have to cancel baseball, Coca-Cola, Delta airlines, Viacom CBS, Cisco, Citi Group, UPS, Apple, Macy’s, Univision, HBO.” The list goes on and on, including Merck, “which produces propecia, the drug Donald Trump takes to reduce his baldness.
“What are the chances that Donald Trump will actually give up Diet Coke or his bald medicine?” he concluded. “None. But he wants you to do it.”