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Late Night Can’t Get Enough of World Leaders Laughing at Trump

“Yeah, it turns out NATO is so catty, they should get Andy Cohen to host it,” Trevor Noah joked on Wednesday.Credit...Comedy Central

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On Tuesday, a video of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada laughing about President Trump with other world leaders at a NATO meeting in London surfaced. In the video, Trudeau could be heard telling leaders of France, Britain and the Netherlands that Trump was late to arrive because of the lengthy news conferences that he sometimes holds before photo ops. At one point, Trudeau says, “You just watch his team’s jaws drop to the floor.”

Credit...CreditVideo by The Daily Show With Trevor Noah

“That video is amazing for two reasons. One, it is crazy that we were able to hear a private conversation between major world leaders. Like did they not know this was happening? And, two, that when world leaders get together, they’re gossipy bitches just like the rest of us.” — TREVOR NOAH

“Yeah, it turns out NATO is so catty, they should get Andy Cohen to host it.” — TREVOR NOAH

“And now the bombing of Canada begins. This is absolutely unacceptable.” — JIMMY KIMMEL

“How dare they laugh at our ridiculous president? That is our job!” — JIMMY KIMMEL

“And this is what they are saying in public. Like I would love to see what goes down in that group text chain.” — JAMES CORDEN

“Here’s how you know when you are really disliked: when you get a Canadian to talk smack about you.” — JAMES CORDEN

On Wednesday, Trump referred to Trudeau as “two-faced,” and returned to America earlier than planned, canceling a news conference.

“To be fair, Trump’s not wrong. Justin Trudeau is two-faced — he’s got a white one and a brown one.” — TREVOR NOAH

“Yeah, it’s like Trump was at a sleepover and all the other kids turned on him, you know, and now he’s just there like, ‘Mom, I know it’s a day early, but can you come pick me up from NATO?’” — TREVOR NOAH

“Mr. President, you shouldn’t be in a place where people are going to laugh at you behind your back. You get on Air Force One and you fly straight back home, where we promise that we will laugh at you to your face.” — TREVOR NOAH

“He was like, ‘Take me back to where I’m respected’ and then flew home to where he’s being impeached.” — JIMMY FALLON

“Trump is like, ‘If you are going to trash somebody, do it like a man. You know, at 3 a.m. on Twitter.’” — JAMES CORDEN

“The impeachment hearings in Washington have now moved over to the judiciary committee where today they heard testimony from four constitutional legal scholars, or as Donald Trump calls them, ‘nerds.’” — JAMES CORDEN

“They said his actions were worse than any president ever. Basically, they rolled up the Constitution and spanked him with it.” — JIMMY KIMMEL

“Yes, the founders agreed the presidential punishment should be impeachment, after rejecting Ben Franklin’s original suggestion: a spanking machine of French whores.” — STEPHEN COLBERT

“This is the part of the story that will be too boring to put in the movie, but there’s a lot of speculation in this committee about what the founding fathers would do if they were here to see this. And to me, the answer is obvious: They would vomit. They’d be throwing up in their wigs. But if the founding fathers were here now, they’d be like, ‘Take that orange ape and throw him in the harbor with the tea!’” — JIMMY KIMMEL

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