Late-Night Hosts Sound Off on Trump's SCOTUS Pick
"I have Trump nomination Bingo! You see, all the squares say ‘White Guy.’"
A day after President Donald Trump announced Judge Brett Kavanaugh as his nomination for a vacancy on the Supreme Court, late-night hosts took aim at the president's choice.
Referring to Monday's televised announcement as "America’s Next Top Justice," Stephen Colbert said of watching Kavanaugh's reveal, “I had a drinking game: I would pour myself a glass every time my glass was empty.”
The Late Show host went on to quip, "I have Trump nomination Bingo,” before producing a Bingo card from his jacket pocket. “You see, all the squares say ‘White Guy.’"
TONIGHT! America gets to know Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh. Non-spoiler alert: he's a white guy. #LSSC pic.twitter.com/D21I8lhSKD
— The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) July 11, 2018On ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live!, host Jimmy Kimmel incorporated Kavanaugh into his monologue, joking, "[Trump] narrowed his candidates down to three - but, in the end, Kavanaugh was the white man for the job."
He later added, "Trump said Kavanaugh is 'one of the finest and sharpest legal minds of our time.' And that’s coming from the guy who told Michael Cohen to just write 'porn star bribe' on the memo line of his check."
Over on TBS, Conan O'Brien noted, "President Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh once wrote that presidents should be shielded from criminal charges while in office. He didn't write this in a ruling, he wrote it on a cake he sent to Trump three days ago."
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