“The White House intentionally left things out. It’s like the infamous 18-and-a-half-minute gap on Nixon’s Watergate tapes if Nixon had left in all the bad stuff. I mean, for Pete’s sake, how do you edit the transcript and leave in ‘I’d like you to do us a favor, though’?” — STEPHEN COLBERT

“Come on, you don’t have to go all the way to Ukraine to get embarrassing tape of Joe Biden. Turn on a camera — he delivers.” — STEPHEN COLBERT

“He said the transcript the White House released was missing crucial details, like Trump asking about recordings of Joe Biden, President Zelensky mentioning the company Hunter Biden worked for, and all the times the president burped into his McFlurry.” — JIMMY KIMMEL

“It definitely seemed at the time like the memo of Trump’s call was not, in fact, a complete transcript, because there were multiple ellipses throughout. And those were definitely not pauses, because Donald Trump does not take pauses; he just yammers until he runs out of oxygen and then inhales like he’s about to go pearl diving.” — SETH MEYERS

“It’s Donald Trump. It’s entirely possible he just said ‘dot, dot, dot.’” — JAMES CORDEN