Late-night hosts on Tuesday addressed Donald Trump’s first official State of the Union address.

“We are live right now, and barely conscious following a 90-minute speech,” said Stephen Colbert, whose show aired directly following Trump’s speech. “There were some bright spots. There were some really heartwarming moments. Some amazing people were there in the gallery.”

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Colbert then listed some of them, including Congressman Steve Scalise, who was shot last June, and police officer Ryan Holets, who adopted a child born to a heroin addict. “Honestly some of the most beautiful, impressive Americans you can imagine,” the host said. “And the president was there too.”

Colbert noted how Trump began with a message to those still suffering from the aftermath of recent natural disasters. “To everyone still recovering in Texas, Florida, Louisiana, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, we are with you, we love you, and we always will pull through together,” Trump said.

“That is going to be a comforting message to the people of Puerto Rico once they have electricity to turn on their TVs,” Colbert shot back. The host also showed a clip of the parts of the address intended to inspire, including one in which Trump said: “If there is a mountain, we climb it; if there is a frontier, we cross it; if there is an opportunity, we seize it.”

Colbert, impersonating the president, replied: “If there is a burger, we eat it. If there is a porn star, we bone it. If there is an immigrant, we deport it. If there is an investigation, we undermine it.”

Trevor Noah also reacted to the address, “which started,” the host said, in reference to the GOP’s tax legislation which Trump called the biggest cut in history, “with Donald Trump praising himself for the one thing he actually got done this year.”

“Needless to say, like most of Trump’s biggest things, these tax cuts were not in fact the biggest tax cuts in American history,” the host explained. “This is a lie. It’s nowhere near it. But this wasn’t a night for facts. If you came here for facts, you came here for the wrong thing.”



“Tonight was all about celebrating President Trump,” Noah continued. “And he was in such a good mood that he even reached across the aisle, and not just to grope someone, but to try and get things done.



“Working together sounds beautiful, but almost every single time Democrats and Republicans have managed to agree on an idea, Trump has come back from the golf course just in time to screw it up,” he explained. “He did it on immigration, Obamacare, but again, I’m getting caught up on the facts. Tonight’s not about the facts.”

Trevor Noah on Trump’s State of the Union address.





Noah showed a clip of the president vouching for a path to citizenship for 1.8 million Dreamers, but also an end to what he calls “chain migration” and to the visa lottery system.

“Although earlier in his speech, Trump talked about finding common ground on immigration reform, what he was really saying was ‘I’ll give you the Dreamers and then we shut everything else down,” Noah said. “Basically: Dreamers, close the door behind you.”



Jimmy Kimmel interviewed Stormy Daniels, the adult film star who Trump reportedly paid off to keep silent about their affair.

“I know Trump supporters are upset about us booking Stormy Daniels on the show,” he began. “They say it’s disrespectful to the president and I get that, I guess.”

“But let’s jump in the time machine to go back to October of 2016, to the presidential debate in St Louis, Missouri, when then-candidate Donald Jennifer Trump showed up at Washington University two hours before the debate with three women who accused Bill Clinton of inappropriate sexual behavior,” Kimmel responded fiercely. “He live-streamed a press conference with those women and then sat them in the audience for the debate in the front row so they could be directly in the eye-line of Bill Clinton’s wife, Hillary.”



“So for those of you whose magical thinking allows them to say it’s disrespectful for me to have Stormy Daniels on the show, I give you exhibit A,” the host said, showing a photo from the Washington University debate before discussing Trump’s address.



“The speech comes at a difficult time for the president,” said Kimmel. “His approval rating is below 40% and that was before his speech preempted a new episode of This is Us.”

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Kimmel then discussed reports that Melania Trump was unhappy with her husband over the Stormy Daniels story, which caused her to cancel her trip to Davos.

“If there was any question about the first lady’s enthusiasm for her husband, she put those rumors to rest tonight,” Kimmel quipped, showing Melania applauding unenthusiastically during her husband’s speech. “That was Melania wearing a tasteful white pantsuit in tribute to the president she voted for.”