Seth Meyers on Trump’s Nato about-face: ‘This is just how Donald Trump does friendship’
Late-night hosts mocked Donald Trump’s rejection by Nato allies for help with the strait of Hormuz and a White House visit from the Irish prime minister for St Patrick’s Day,On Late Night, Seth Meyers recalled the many, many times that Trump insulted Nato, only to turn around and ask them this week for help with strait of Hormuz, blocked by his war with Iran,“You called them obsolete, sloppy and bad, and now you want their help?” Meyers marveled,“It’s like breaking up with someone and then immediately asking them for help moving – ‘I know I called you obsolete and sloppy, but I didn’t say you were bad at carrying things! Now hop to it, fatso, I gotta date tonight!’”The response from Nato members has been a resounding no, even from US allies like Germany and Britain,“You mean to tell me your genius plan of continually insulting them for 10-plus years and then begging them to help you out of a jam you got yourself into didn’t work?” Meyers laughed.
“But again, this is just how Donald Trump does friendship,It’s not ‘I got your back, you got mine,’ It’s ‘you get my back, and while you’re there can you give me a back rub?’”Nato countries “have made the very reasonable observation that this is not a war they started, it’s not on or near their territory and it’s not within the scope of their mission”, he continued,So Trump tried to insist that they need the oil, “while inadvertently revealing that maybe, maybe this entire debacle was completely unnecessary”,As Trump put it on Air Force One: “It’s the place where they get their energy.
And they should come and they should help us protect it.You could make the case that maybe we shouldn’t even be there at all, because we don’t need it.We have a lot of oil.”“Man, it’s a shame no one made that case before we went!” Meyers responded.“I mean, there are so many cases to make here.
You could make the case that we shouldn’t be there at all.You could make the case that this was an unnecessary and an unprovoked war of choice, you could make the case that this reckless and illegal war would destabilize the region.You could make the case that Trump lied to his supporters by promising no new wars, and then launched another disastrous open-ended war.I mean, at this point, you could probably make the case that this is going so badly because Trump mixed up the plans for war with Iran and war with Greenland.”Meyers had a suggestion for Nato: “Just to troll him, they should say ‘OK, we will help, ‘and then send him” what he once proclaimed to be Greenland’s defense system: “two dogsleds”.
On Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the host acknowledged St Patrick’s Day, which included the annual ceremonial White House visit by the Irish prime minister – “a standing appointment to get together with the president of the United States once a year, just like Melania.”Taoiseach Micheál Martin brought a bowl of shamrocks to Trump – a customary gift, “and also the closest Trump has gotten to a salad that isn’t in a taco shell in quite some time,” Kimmel quipped.The host then touched on the resignation of Joe Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center and a far-right political figure, over Trump’s war in Iran.“I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,” he wrote in his resignation letter.“Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation …”“This is not some radical deep state operative left over from the Biden administration.
Kent was a big Maga guy that Trump appointed,” Kimmel explained,“You get the sense that every one of these Republicans has their ass cheeks clenched tightly right now, hoping he puts an end to this war as soon as possible,”Nevertheless, Trump’s war continues, allegedly until he feels it should end “in his bones”,When asked to clarify that Trump remark, the speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, said: “Well, I think his bones are informed by the intelligence,”“Which seems unlikely to me, seeing as how he doesn’t even read the intelligence briefings they give him every day,” Kimmel noted.
“His bones aren’t informed by intelligence.His bones are informed by fried chicken and boniva.”And on the Late Show, Stephen Colbert also touched on the Irish leader’s visit to the White House, where Trump was awkwardly asked about the Irish president’s direct criticism of his “illegal” war in Iran.Trump responded: “He’s lucky I exist, that’s all I can say.”“Ok, first off, the president of Ireland is a woman,” Colbert responded.
“Second, calling an Irish person ‘lucky’ is just another racist stereotype.I am Irish-American, and it’s like saying we’re all pale, we all drink whiskey and have 10 siblings and make our children listen to sad poetry and … oh God, that’s me.”Colbert then turned to the still-blocked strait of Hormuz.“With the oil shipments blocked, gas prices up and our allies sitting this one out, everybody’s asking: how much longer are we going to do this?”According to Trump, speaking from the Oval Office, the war will end “soon”, and next he plans to take Cuba.“Trump is confident the island is ready to fall, because the US has blockaded Cuba from all energy shipments,” Colbert explained.
To lift it, Trump has demanded that Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel step down, part of a strategy the White House has said will force “regime compliance” rather than regime change.“It’s a proven strategy that’s already worked other places like Venezuela and CBS,” Colbert quipped.
Seth Meyers on Trump’s Nato about-face: ‘This is just how Donald Trump does friendship’
Late-night hosts mocked Donald Trump’s rejection by Nato allies for help with the strait of Hormuz and a White House visit from the Irish prime minister for St Patrick’s Day.On Late Night, Seth Meyers recalled the many, many times that Trump insulted Nato, only to turn around and ask them this week for help with strait of Hormuz, blocked by his war with Iran. “You called them obsolete, sloppy and bad, and now you want their help?” Meyers marveled. “It’s like breaking up with someone and then immediately asking them for help moving – ‘I know I called you obsolete and sloppy, but I didn’t say you were bad at carrying things! Now hop to it, fatso, I gotta date tonight!’”The response from Nato members has been a resounding no, even from US allies like Germany and Britain. “You mean to tell me your genius plan of continually insulting them for 10-plus years and then begging them to help you out of a jam you got yourself into didn’t work?” Meyers laughed
Banksy has been unmasked (again). But does this major Reuters investigation actually tell us something new?
Hi Kelly, everyone is talking about Banksy (again) – what’s he done this time?Hi Nick. So a really long (8,000-word) investigation by Reuters claims it has discovered the elusive street artist’s true identity, which backs up claims made by the Mail on Sunday British tabloid almost two decades ago that he is a 52-year-old Bristol-born man called Robin Gunningham, now going by the name of David Jones.Wait … didn’t we already know that? Or was it supposed to be the guy from Massive Attack?Sort of. Previous reports suggested that Robert Del Naja, the co-founder of Massive Attack – a pioneer in trip-hop, which is a music genre that also has its roots in Bristol – was Banksy. Now it seems that Naja is Gunningham’s secret partner/enabler/scout/gatekeeper
Arts Council England must change or face ‘disaster’, culture department is told
Arts Council England requires a “radical” overhaul so it can to respond to the challenges of the culture sector, according to Margaret Hodge, who said it would be a “disaster” if ACE leaders did not heed her warnings.The Labour peer, who led a wide-ranging and critical report into ACE, made the comments at a Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) select committee, where she reiterated her calls for the organisation to embrace change.Lady Hodge said: “I think there has to be a radical review in the way that the Arts Council works; how they use the money, their role in relation to the organisations that they support, and also their role in the wider arts landscape.”She said a significant shift in approach was needed because of the “loss of confidence in how ACE serves its own communities”, caused in part by the perception of political interference in decision-making.The decision to force the English National Opera to move from London to Manchester was a “raw experience” for some of the 700 people she spoke to as part of her review, she said
Jimmy Kimmel on Trump: ‘He uses his bones to feel things instead of his brain’
Late-night hosts on Monday discussed the Academy Awards, Maga’s incoherent statements on the Iran war and raised an eyebrow to Donald Trump’s claims of support from an anonymous former president.On Jimmy Kimmel Live, the host focused on Trump’s comments to the press in week three of the Iran war, or as Kimmel called it “Operation Epsteino Distracto”.On Truth Social, Trump wrote that it was a “great honour” to kill “scumbags” in Iran.“He’s been talking very tough for a guy who seems to almost be in a coma right now,” Kimmel said.“Even with all the killing he has been enjoying so much, he is very low energy lately,” the host continued
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Carnivàle premiered on HBO in 2003 and was cancelled after only two seasons. In the immediate aftermath, this decision was protested by the small but dedicated cult following the show had amassed (to the tune of 50,000 emails).But in the years since, as the television canon has expanded and the taste for mystery-box TV has waned, Carnivàle now seems little more than a minor curio in HBO’s ever-expanding back catalogue. So what is this curio about?Carnivàle follows the exploits of its titular carnival as they travel across the American dust bowl in the 1930s. At the beginning of the series, these nomadic showpeople pick up Ben Hawkins (Nick Stahl), an ex-con with a mysterious past (and inexplicable powers)
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