The Republican National Convention continued on Tuesday evening with addresses from Vice President Mike Pence, first woman Melania Trump, and two of Donald Trump’s grownup kids, to call a number of. Late-night TV exhibits additionally continued their protection of the occasion, significantly The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the latter of which has been airing reside after every evening of the RNC and the DNC.
Trevor Noah took intention on the RNC’s messaging about Trump’s dealing with of the coronavirus pandemic. In the meantime, Colbert’s post-RNC response was a combination of each boredom and dismay. Learn on to search out out their reactions after evening two of the RNC.
Stephen Colbert Roasts RNC: ‘That’s Not a Political Party, That’s a Cult’
The Each day Present with Trevor Noah
Noah’s present on Tuesday evening wasn’t reside, however he did react to what he’d seen of the RNC from its first evening. The Each day Present host started by specializing in the conference’s constructive spin on Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
“Going into the conference, I assumed it was going to be robust for Donald Trump to promote himself for an additional 4 years. I imply, largely as a result of we reside in a plague-scarred hellscape the place 180,000 folks have died, and we won’t go to a film or hug our grandparents,” Noah defined. “However then, I watched the conference. And guys, it seems that Donald Trump has truly carried out a extremely good job by stopping all of that from taking place.”
“Basically, they tried to persuade everybody that this huge failure is definitely a large achievement,” Noah mentioned of the RNC’s coronavirus messaging.
The host in contrast the 2020 RNC to what occurred on the identical occasion 4 years earlier than, when all eyes had been on Hillary Clinton and the 2012 Benghazi attack. “It is particularly loopy contemplating that on the final RNC, all they talked about was the 4 lifeless People in Benghazi,” Noah mentioned. “However now, they’re performing like Trump did a terrific job by solely having 45,000 Benghazis. However I assume it is true; with out Trump taking any motion, hundreds of thousands extra People may have died. So good on Republicans for seeing the glass of bleach half full.”
The Late Present with Stephen Colbert
Colbert’s reside present on Tuesday started with extra ideas on the primary evening of the RNC – specifically its TV ratings, which had been decrease than the rankings for the primary evening of the DNC.
“Now, you already know Trump’s gotta be upset as a result of final evening, TV viewership was means down. The GOP drew simply 15.eight million folks, whereas the primary evening of the DNC attracted 18.7 million viewers,” Colbert famous. “Sadly for Trump, Nielsen does not have an electoral school, nor does it rely the hundreds of thousands of individuals with their TV units off who nonetheless heard Kimberly Guilfoyle’s tortured cries echo by means of their goals.”
As for evening two of the occasion, Colbert was particularly miffed by the truth that White Home financial adviser Larry Kudlow referred to the pandemic prior to now tense in his speech. “Why are you utilizing the previous tense?” Colbert requested. “You recognize we nonetheless cannot shake fingers, and the preferred school dorm is ‘childhood bed room,’ proper?”
The Late Present host additionally took digs at Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s speech from Jerusalem and Melania Trump’s apparel for her keynote speech.
Colbert concluded by noting a significant shift in tone for the RNC’s second night. “To recap, final evening was loud and alarming. Tonight was sluggish and boring,” Colbert mentioned.