Late-night hosts criticised the president’s behaviour on Twitter after he alleged that 3,000 people didn’t die as a result of Hurricane Maria

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Late-night hosts took aim at Donald Trump’s latest set of tweets after he claimed that the Hurricane Maria death toll was fabricated by the Democrats.

Seth Meyers

On Late Night with Seth Meyers, the host criticised the president for “another insane conspiracy theory”. Trump tweeted that the reported number of about 3,000 was inaccurate and had been pushed by opponents just to make him look bad.

“That’s the official death toll, you lunatic,” Meyers said. “Now we know why he’s so orange, his brain is just melted pumpkin guts.”

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He continued: “We don’t need a book, we don’t need an anonymous op-ed to tell us that the president is an addled narcissist who peddles one conspiracy theory after another.”

Meyers went on to share concerns over the president’s “incompetence and erratic behaviour” before talking about the midterms which have led to concerns being raised by Republicans.

The Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, appeared on TV to compare them to a knife fight in an alley. “I seriously doubt Mitch McConnell has ever been in a fight,” Meyers said. “Or an alley.”

Stephen Colbert

On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert also chose to discuss Trump’s hurricane assertion after talking about the impending Hurricane Florence.

“It’s really hard to imagine anything more horrible than that apart from this tweet,” he said.

Colbert then talked about how the death toll hadn’t received the press it deserved. “It had been pushed out of the front pages because of all the other bad news about Trump,” he said.

He moved on to talk about rumours that Trump is set to fire Jeff Sessions, a “Cabbage Patch American”.

He continued: “Trump has had major problems with the Department of Justice, mainly the justice part.”

A story this week also revealed how Trump originally wanted to remove braille from the elevator panels in Trump Tower. “You’d think Trump would love braille. It’s like reading through groping,” he said.

Trump reportedly insisted that blind people wouldn’t be living there. “If you’ve seen Trump Tower, I’m pretty sure blind people decorated it,” Colbert said.

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Trevor Noah

Finally on The Daily Show, Trevor Noah also brought up Trump’s Hurricane Maria tweet. “He would have won the hurricane if you deduct the thousands of people who died illegally,” he joked.

Noah continued: “After all the beef Trump has had, I feel like it was only a matter of time before he started a beef with dead people. This was inevitable.”