On Wednesday’s instalment of his Late Show, the host referenced media reports detailing GOP senators’ failure to focus.
Another report by The Hill noted of GOP senators: “Several whispered among themselves, while others chewed gum, doodled or struggled to stay awake.”
He referenced a Mediaite story about a CNN segment in which journalist Abby Phillip said of the senators: “Some of them are explicitly not listening.
On his show, Colbert mused that the senators must have been reading about “other, more interesting topics [than the proceedings”, “like: how does history tend to remember cowardly, fascist-enabling pieces of garbage?”