musical guest macklemore, featuring. dave b and travis thompson and featuring the legeary roots crew. questlove: 770 a.t.l. steve: and now, here he is, jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] jimmy: oh! yes! welcome, everybody. welcome, welcome, welcome to the tonight show. this is it, baby. [ cheers and applause ] you re here. you re at the show. you re at the right show tonight. well here s what we re talking about, everybody. it s news out of washington. i read that congress is debating if president trump should have the power to order a nuclear strike. [ audience ohs ] i guess right now it s an even split between no and hell no. [ laughter ] [ applause ] don t let him they have a a good plan, though. they re going to replace the red button on his desk with the one that orders office supplies from staples. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] why do i keep getting all these ink cartridges? sad! [ laughter ] trump keeps tweeting that the justice department s
( laughter ) it s the late show with stephen colbert. tonight, trump s twitter tear. plus stephen welcomes jordan peele alia shawkat and comedian paul mecurio. featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it s stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) stephen: wooo! hey! how are you? thank you, joe! thank you, louis. thank you, matty. what s going on? pleads, have a seat, everybody. welcome to the late show. i m your host, stephen colbert. ( cheers and applause ) well, folks, donald trump is back in the u.s.a., and he went on tv today to brag about how great his asia trip was. and it turns out it wasn t just attention he was thirsty for. japanese companies have announced investments in the united states worth more than $8 billion, 17,000 jobs. they don t have water? that s okay. ( laughter ) what? that s okay. oh. ( laughter ) stephen: wow. that is hard to watch. ( laughter ) you know that, after watchin
month and many say he is still being held against his will. the supreme court in cambodia dissolved the country s main opposition. the head of that court is a member of the prime minister s ruling party. up in business, we will take a look at how donald trump s victory speech about business deals in asia was waterd by an awkward break. and we ll take a closer look at the most expensive piece of art ever sold at auction. more on that on the way. first, our top story live from paris. we will start first in zimbabwe, where things are tense . the military is still holding longtime leader robert mugabe under house arrest. the african union says the move has all the elements of a coup, but the military has said it is just cracking down on criminals. it is a power struggle over who might replace the 90-year-old president. calm a day after the military took control to go after what it calls criminals around the president. [inaudible] it s business as usual. we are still very much
case with president trump on his first day back in the united states after a 12-day trip through asia. he started the morning with a flurry of tweets. the president took to twitter today to brag about the stock market, attack the new york times, promote fox and friends, promote sean hannity, criticize three ucla basketball players, send his condolences after another multi-victim shooting to the wrong city in the wrong state. and that s it, i think. it s like he never left. [ laughter ] oh no, he also lashed out at cnn. he wrote, while in the philippines i was forced to watch cnn, which i ve not done in months, and again realized how bad and fake it is. loser! [ laughter ] who is he calling loser? he knows cnn is not a guy, right? [ laughter ] i get the sense he walks around the white house yelling at inanimate objects. the lamp didn t turn on, loser! then after the tweets the president gave his first speech from the white house in two weeks. the theme of which was putting
case with president trump on his first day back in the united states after a 12-day trip through asia. he started the morning with a flurry of tweets. the president took to twitter today to brag about the stock market, attack the new york times, promote fox and friends, promote sean hannity, criticize three ucla basketball players, send his condolences after another multi-victim shooting to the wrong city in the wrong state. and that s it, i think. it s like he never left. [ laughter ] oh no, he also lashed out at cnn. he wrote, while in the philippines i was forced to watch cnn, which i ve not done in months, and again realized how bad and fake it is. loser! [ laughter ] who is he calling loser? he knows cnn is not a guy, right? [ laughter ] i get the sense he walks around the white house yelling at inanimate objects. the lamp didn t turn on, loser! then after the tweets the president gave his first speech from the white house in two weeks. the theme of which was putting