Stephen Colbert likens Trump team to the dog that caught the car
As stories of paranoia and palace intrigue continue to swirl around President Trump’s White House, Stephen Colbert has offered his take on the tumult, and it involves a sobering canine analogy.
Riffing on reports that White House staffers are taking extreme measures to keep their work and private lives under wraps, Colbert said in his Late Show monologue Tuesday, “I think this paranoia is just the frustration every new administration has with Washington, D.C. It happens every time, you know. You went to Washington, you went to work for Trump because you wanted to tear down the government. Now you have to deal with it, now you are the government.”
Trump and his team, he continued, are “like a dog who spent his whole life chasing a car - now he has to drive the car.”
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Underscoring that image, Colbert said, “We’re not happy about it either, by the way. Remember, we’re in the backseat of a car being driven by a dog now.”
Tonight! As paranoia seizes the White House, Trump staffers take drastic measures to keep their work and private lives secret. #LSSC pic.twitter.com/VnRYFSXrxD
— The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) March 22, 2017
The Late Show airs weeknights at 11:35 p.m. on CBS.
