Late-night hosts mock Trump’s weekend texts to world leaders

On Tuesday, late-night hosts recapped President Trump’s long holiday weekend spent texting world leaders and posting screenshots of those conversations on Truth Social.

Jimmy Kimmel quipped that the president “can do so much damage in one three-day weekend — I don’t know if anybody has ever done more,” and said “Every country hates us now. All of them hate us. We are the Omarosa of the world.” Kimmel also criticized a message the president sent to another leader, quoting a line that said, “Since you didn’t give me the peace prize, I’m thinking about taking Greenland away,” and called that “unheard of.”

Comics on other shows joined the mockery. Josh Johnson noted the odd tone of the texts, asking, “Who starts a text message with, ‘dear’?” and joking about blank voice memos. Jimmy Fallon said Trump had posted a private text from French President Emmanuel Macron that read, “I do not understand what you are doing on Greenland,” and added a comedic line about Trump threatening Macron by “putting a 50 percent tariff on all Emilys living in Paris.”

The segment collected a string of jokes — including lines from Stephen Colbert about the Nobel Peace Prize and comparisons to reality television — and the excerpt does not include any reported official responses from the White House or the foreign leaders mentioned.

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Culture, Donald Trump, Truth Social, Emmanuel Macron, Greenland, Nobel Peace Prize