"'Some things never get better and never change.' Look at me for instance,
I'm horrible and I'm only getting worse."
President Donald Trump's government shutdown is now 18 days in and the late night
hosts are doing their best to see the funny side of the situation. On Monday night's
'Late Night with Seth Meyers,' the host said in his Closer Look segment,
"Our political system feels like it's at a breaking point. It was always fragile, but then
Donald Trump came along and wrecked it. He's like the guy at a party watching a game
of Jenga going 'Take that one, no THAT one.'
"And then finally someone says, 'You know what? If you think it's so easy, you try it.'
And then he just lights the Jenga tower on fire.
"There is no better test of a political leader than this," the NBC host continued
"Can you keep the government running? And Trump is now failing this test for the third
time in his presidency and realizing you don't get rehired after that.
He's like a stoner at a pizza place."
Meyers went on to explore the real-world consequences that Trump's border wall
obsession has created, including the hundreds of thousands of federal workers going
without pay, food stamps being cut, rental assistance lost and tax refunds delayed.
"Look, sometimes you take a job that ends so badly that you have to change your name,"
Meyers said.
"For example, you take a job as Donald J. Trump and you leave it as Prisoner 567-891."
Over on CBS's 'Late Show,' Stephen Colbert focused on Trump's obsession with
walls and wheels being tried and tested inventions that never get old and that will never
go away.
"It's possible that he's bringing up walls and wheels because he wants to combine
the two. That would be exciting." Colbert began.
"A short mobile wall that can slide back and forth to repel immigrants where it's needed."
And if that concept sounds vaguely familiar...
"I'm being told we have some footage of a prototype,
here's the refugee, there's the wall and oh! Rejected him!"
On ABC's 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!,' the host promised to employ a different government
worker affected by the shutdown on his show each night until the issue is resolved.
"Nearly 800,000 federal employees are working without pay, and that is Donald
Trump doing what Donald Trump does best: not paying the people who work for him."
Over on Comedy Central's 'The Daily Show,' host Trevor Noah also discussed
the government shutdown, saying it could go on for years. The host acknowledged that
the longer the shutdown goes on for, the worse it is for the country and compared the
situation to leaving your pet cat alone for a weekend and for an indefinite amount of time.
"They escape and then they leave. At 17 days into this shutdown, let's just say
that America's cats are starting to stink."
Noah also found a way to circle back to comments Trump made in 2018 about Haiti
and Africa being "shithole countries."
"The shutdown has gotten so bad that at national parks, Americans are pooping
on the ground. Who's the shithole country now?"
CBS's 'Late Late Show' also kicked off its first episode of 2019 by addressing the
shutdown with host James Corden joking:
"We've just spent the last two weeks not working, so...
pretty much like the federal government."
The host also pounced on Trump's comment that he "can relate" to the federal
government employees that are financially struggling as a result of the shutdown.
"No one's more relatable than Donald Trump, right?
He's just a regular, working class family man."
Digging deeper into Trump's claim that he can relate to the thousands of people now
unable to pay their bills, Corden jokingly defended the commander-in-chief saying
"To be fair though, maybe he can relate."
"Trump's filed for bankruptcy six times, right?
He's actually built his entire career on not being able to pay bills."
And over on 'The Tonight Show,' host Jimmy Fallon wished his audience a happy
2019 before bringing up the government shutdown also.
"Right now it's tough to say what will last longer:
The government shutdown or your neighbor's Christmas decorations. I don't know."
He then capitalised on another topic that is on everyone's lips these days -
Netflix's psychological thriller 'Bird Box.'
"The Democrats have a plan. They're gonna make Trump wear one of those blindfolds
from Bird Box and just tell him there's a wall. Don't take it off! Don't take it off!'"
To watch full clips of the late night hosts reacting to the ongoing government shutdown,
head to THR.com. For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Lyndsey Rodrigues.
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