Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, Trevor Noah drag Trump, Omarosa over firing feud

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Show Caption Hide Caption Omarosa claims Trump’s 'mental decline' in new book Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault-Newman claims in her new book, "Unhinged," that she saw evidence of President Trump’s "mental decline." Natasha Abellard has the story.

Turn the page? Not a chance. Monday, late-night hosts Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers and Trevor Noah were still stuck on "Unhinged" author Omarosa Manigault-Newman, her accusations against the president, as well as the release of her taped conversations she had with President Trump and Chief of Staff John Kelly. Here are their best quips.

"The Late Show with Stephen Colbert"

Colbert marveled at Omarosa's declaration that Trump is "truly a racist" after allegedly hearing a tape of the president using the N-word. Trump denies such a tape exists.

"This is huge," Colbert said sarcastically of the findings from the woman he said resembled a "realtor giving you a business card at a funeral." "Finally, we have proof that the guy who .. said that a Nazi-Klan rally had some "fine people" and called Africa a shithole is a racist." (In January, Trump denied reports that he referred to Haiti and African nations as “shithole countries, despite confirmation from at least one senator who was in the room when he said it.)

What seemed to surprise Colbert was Trump's reaction to Omarosa leaving the White House, a conversation the former White House staffer taped and revealed Monday on NBC"s "Today." During the conversation, which Colbert played for his audience, Trump claimed he "didn't know" about her firing by Kelly.

"What a wiener," Colbert said. "You're the 'You're fired' guy and you're too scared to tell Omarosa she's fired?" Breaking into his Trump impression, Colbert reimagined the exchange: "They fired you? Gosh darn it. Oh, oh cheese and crackers – I don't love that you're leaving, but I do love cheese and crackers. What were we talking about?"

Colbert also addressed Trump's Twitter spree from Monday in which the president dubbed his former employee "Wacky Omarosa" and said she "got fired 3 times on the Apprentice, now got fired for the last time."

"You do realize that means you hired her four times, right?" Colbert asked. "But you know the old saying: 'Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, also shame on you. Fool me two more times, maybe you should stop hiring this person."

"Late Night with Seth Meyers"

Meyers also addressed Trump's tweetstorm in his monologue Monday, refuting Trump's tweeted claim that she "never made it, never will." "Well, actually, she did make it," Meyers asserted. "You hired her for a job in the White House after she got fired three times on 'The Apprentice.' That's like getting cut three times from the Mets and thinking 'I'm gonna try out for the Yankees.' "

During his "Closer Look" segment, Meyers dissected another of Trump's tweets in which he predicted "the Fake News Media will be working overtime to make even Wacky Omarosa look legitimate as possible."

"You know what made Omarosa look legitimate? Putting her in the White House," Meyers contradicted. "You can't hire people to work in the most powerful office in the world paid by taxpayers and then when they turn on you say, 'That person's a crazy liar and no one should trust them.' I can't wait until Trump's forced to resign and President Mike Pence tweets 'Please ignore this disgruntled employee; he has no credibility!' "

"The Daily Show with Trevor Noah"

For Noah, Omarosa fell short of making an impact with her tapes. "What's weird about this is that Omarosa is presenting these tapes as evidence that she was treated unfairly, but from what she released, John Kelly doesn't sound that bad," he said. "If anything, he just sounded like a guy who had a lot more important things to do, you know? He's just like 'Look, I can't have this conversation right now. The president accidentally swallowed the nuclear launch codes and – uh – we need to come up with some new ones ASAP."

What did shock the "Daily Show" host was how many people have recorded the president.

"So many people are walking around the White House wearing a wire, I'm surprised that there aren't just feedback loops happening to everyone, as they walk by, like, people just having conversations like ... 'Hey, your recording's interfering with my recording, man. Come on, come on ... Just give me your recording after the meeting.' "

Noah's solution? "There just needs to be a Grammy category for these at this point," he said as a graphic for the "best contemporary presidential spying" appeared over his shoulder.

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