As rioting continues in Los Angeles against the idea of immigration enforcement, CBS's comedians of Stephen Colbert and Taylor Tomlinson melted down on Monday as the former blamed President Trump’s “fascist impulses” for the violence while the latter lamented having to do a monologue on something she found not funny.
CBS’s Stephen Colbert claimed on The Late Show that “The last time a president bypassed a governor to send in the National Guard was 1965, when LBJ used troops to protect civil rights demonstrators in Alabama. So, we've come full circle. Troops were deployed to protect protesters by Lyndon B. Johnson, and now they're being used to threaten protesters by Donald B. Dick.”
He also played dumb on why conservatives do not like seeing rioters with foreign flags, “California authorities have said these protests are largely peaceful, but many on the right are trying to use the worst images to make it look like an invasion. Like JD Vance, who posted that protesters are ‘waving foreign flags and assaulting law enforcement. If only we had a good word for that.’ St. Patrick's Day? And yes. And yes, it is one word. ‘Saintpaddysday.’”
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