Colbert Reacts to Trump’s Transgender Military Ban: ‘Thank You? F**k You’
On Wednesday night, Stephen Colbert reacted to President Trump‘s recent policy change of banning transgender people from joining the military.
“I really think he’s off his meds,” he began, “because he went from crazy to cruel.”
He then read Trump’s tweets out loud in his presidential impersonation.
After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow……
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 26, 2017
….Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 26, 2017
….victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. Thank you
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 26, 2017
“‘Thank you?'” Colbert reacted. “F**k you.”
“Why the hell would he do this?” he continued. “This isn’t even one of his campaign promises!”
He then invoked Trump’s previous support for the LGBT during the election.
“What the hell does he think the ‘T’ in LGBT stand for? ‘Trope?’ ‘Tomato?'” he joked.
Colbert then mentioned Caitlyn Jenner‘s outrage of the policy change when she tweeted the following:
There are 15,000 patriotic transgender Americans in the US military fighting for all of us. What happened to your promise to fight for them? https://t.co/WzjypVC8Sr
— Caitlyn Jenner (@Caitlyn_Jenner) July 26, 2017
“Caitlyn, I don’t know if I’m the first person to break this to you,” he responded, “but he is a liar!”
He compared the “firing” of the 15,000 transgender troops by tweet to “your wife divorcing by cookie bouquet.”
Colbert then asked “why Trump was being such a jerk?- besides practice.”
“Probably to try and distract everybody from the fact that ‘repeal’ and ‘replace’ is getting ‘ass’ and ‘kicked,'” he quipped.
Watch the clip above, via CBS.
