Late-night hosts on Monday discussed Oprah’s galvanizing speech at the Golden Globes, Donald Trump’s defense on Twitter of his mental fitness and reports about the president’s lax daily schedule.

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“Did anybody here see last night’s episode of Oprah?,” Stephen Colbert began. “Some people are calling it the Golden Globes. It was easily one of the most powerful, moving, meaningful nights of beautiful millionaires giving each other trophies.



“And Oprah, her speech was so moving, even for Oprah,” the host continued. “Someone give that woman an award for winning an award.



“People were immediately calling that speech presidential,” Colbert said, referencing the calls for Oprah to run for president that ensued. “A year ago, I would’ve agreed. These days, it played a little coherent.



“Now Oprah is denying any political ambitions, but two of her close friends told CNN she is actively thinking about running for president,” the host explained. “I, for one, would love to hear that the state of the union is stroooong.”



But Colbert was not as enthusiastic about the prospect of an Oprah presidency as others: “I offer a note of caution. Do we really want to elect another billionaire TV star? Granted, this one is actually a billionaire, actually a TV star. One of the things that inspires me most about Oprah is that I believe she’s reasonable enough to consider the possibility that maybe being a billionaire TV star doesn’t necessarily qualify you to have the launch codes. Then again, if we did ever go toe-to-toe with North Korea, I believe she could calm Kim Jung-un down just by helping him lose weight.



“A lot of people think Oprah belongs in government; for instance, Donald Trump does,” Colbert said, showing footage from an interview in 1999 and in which Trump floats the possibility of running for president with Oprah as his running mate. “If you need any more proof that Donald Trump is delusional, he thinks Oprah would take vice-president.”

Comedy Central’s Trevor Noah addressed the president’s tweets this past weekend, in which he defended his mental stability and intelligence after a new book, written by Michael Wolff, claims many around Trump believe him to be mentally unfit for the job.

“If someone wrote a book about you not being mentally fit and you knew it was all lies, a smart person would ignore the bullshit and carry on with his life,” Noah began. “But Donald Trump is not that person.”

Noah then showed the president’s response on Twitter to questions of his mental state. Trump wrote, “Throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart.” On being elected president, he continued, “I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius … and a very stable genius at that!”

“This is, like, really funny,” Noah said. “Only Donald Trump could defend himself and, in the same sentence, completely undermine his whole point. It would be like someone saying, ‘I’m the most tolerant guy out there, just ask this filthy Armenian.”

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“Whether or not you agree with Trump on being genius, he has added himself to the illustrious group of people who have declared themselves extremely smart,” the host joked, showing clips of Fredo from The Godfather, The Office’s Kelly Kapoor and Homer Simpson extolling their intelligence.

“The truth is, no one wants to be told that they’re losing their mind, so I can see why it ruined Trump’s Camp David sleepover with his GOP BFFs,” Noah continued. “Of course, Trump was always going to come out and tell us that he has a very good brain. But what was fun was watching the grownups around him pretend that they don’t see what’s blatantly obvious.”

The host then showed clips of Mike Rogers, Nikki Haley and Lindsey Graham all claiming the president is up to the job and criticizing those who question his fitness for office. “To be honest with you, if I hadn’t had a year to get used to this, I’d be really pissed off right now,” Noah responded. “Because these people aren’t just saying that Donald Trump is of sound mind. They’re basically saying that all of us are mentally unstable for questioning him.”

Noah then noted the hypocrisy of some of these defenses, showing a clip of senator Graham calling Trump “crazy” and a “kook” during the GOP primaries in 2016.

“I guess what the Republicans are saying is this: yes, Donald Trump was a deranged lunatic unfit to be president, but once he won the electoral college, then he became a stable genius,” Noah concluded. “Because everyone knows nothing turns a man sane like absolute power.”

Finally, Jimmy Kimmel addressed the president’s schedule, which Axios reported is “shrinking”.

“In addition to his mental stability, Trump’s schedule is now being questioned,” Kimmel said. “He’s been reportedly rolling into the Oval Office around 11am and heading out at 4.15pm. It’s reassuring that the president of the United States has the same hours as a Venice Beach skateboard shop.”

Commenting on rumors that Trump reserves the morning hours for himself, Kimmel said, “It goes executive time; that’s what they call his time in the morning watching TV and tweeting. Then office time, then potty time, then tantrum time, golf time and finally bed time.”

“Trump has a busy schedule today,” the host went on. “Besides the football game he went to, he’s on the road in Nashville and spoke at the American Farm Bureau Convention, where he was good enough to provide us with tonight’s grain alcohol edition of drunk Donald Trump.”



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Kimmel then showed a slowed-down version of Trump’s comments at the convention, in which he told the audience they are lucky he “gave you the privilege” of voting for him and repeatedly invoked someone named Pat.

“The worst part is,” Kimmel concluded, “there’s no person named Pat.”