Late-night hosts took aim at Donald Trump’s finances as the former president still struggles to pay off a reduced bond.
Stephen Colbert
On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert said that it “was supposed to be a special day” as Trump had been tasked with paying a $545m bond to New York courts but it was cut to $175m and he was given 10 more days to find the money.
“Every time it seems like consequences of any kind are closing in, he gets away with it,” Colbert complained. “Who let this guy wish for more wishes? Especially after how racist he was to the genie.”
Another piece of good news has allowed Trump’s children to now run businesses again in the city despite a previous ban. Colbert joked that his two sons would now be able to launch their “hot dog and cocaine cart”.
Trump was thrown a lifeline, to which Colbert said: “By law, you have to throw someone a lifeline when they look that much like a waterlogged corpse.”
The former president “kept trying to weasel his way out” of paying the money because “he’s not a real rich guy, he just plays one on TV”.
He has been struggling to find an insurance company willing to underwrite his bond so is still on the search for the money.
There was also some good Trump legal news with the Stormy Daniels hush-money case now getting a trial date of 15 April, the first criminal prosecution of an ex-president in US history.
Seth Meyers
On Late Night, Seth Meyers also covered Trump’s finances, looking back to his 2015 claims that he would make a great presidential candidate because he’s so rich and doesn’t need anyone else’s help.
“As a general rule. if you’re the kind of guy who knowingly breaks laws and commits fraud you probably shouldn’t go around bragging that you’ll never need anyone’s money,” Meyers said.
He also pointed out that it was a lie given how Trump raised millions in 2016. He has now been asking everyone to chip in with help from cronies such as Lindsey Graham, “begging for money because none of his billionaire friends will help him”.
Even Fox hosts pointed out that Trump has a terrible history of paying people back, with Meyers saying: “You’d have better luck getting your money back from a shredder.”
Meyers pointed out that he is “so desperate for the money he’s even gutting the Republican National Committee so he can install loyalists and drain the cash for himself”. He joked that he has been going around “shaking the change out of everyone’s pockets”.