Stephen Colbert: Trump is the ‘definition of insanity’

Stephen Colbert has plenty of questions for President Donald Trump in the aftermath of the government shutdown.

It’s getting difficult to come up with new ways to describe President Donald Trump. His administration has been responsible for plenty of “firsts” and unprecedented moments over the past two years. For Stephen Colbert, Trump’s behavior after reopening the government can only be called “insanity.”

Colbert more than anyone has been trying to find the words for President Trump. The Late Show has become very focused on monitoring the president and then letting Colbert deliver his punchlines and parodies.

The month-long government shutdown dominated the headlines since Colbert returned from his holiday break. The late night host has been covering every twist and turn of the shutdown and how Trump has approached the entire debacle.

So when Trump announced on Friday that a temporary resolution had been reached that did not include border wall funding, Colbert was ready to pile on the president.

In Stephen Colbert’s eyes, the reopening of the government was just another in a series of losses for President Trump. We’ve seen Colbert pick on Trump’s claims of being a master negotiator in the past. So the fact that Trump did not have his demands met by Democrats seemed to bring a smile to Colbert’s face.

Yet the president claims that this was not a concession and that he has not given up on the $5 billion for his wall. Colbert points out that coming back to the negotiation table with the same exact demands and threats while expecting a different result is the definition of insanity.

Perhaps that insanity is what led to the very, very specific immigration numbers the president tweeted. Those numbers have been questioned by several major news outlets and fact-checking organizations. For Colbert they just provide more evidence of his insanity claim against President Trump.

The end of the government shutdown is a positive for so many Americans and especially those who were going without pay. Unfortunately, neither side seems positioned to budge on the border wall issue. So we may be right back in the same situation in less than a month. Expecting anything different would be, well, insane.