Stephen Colbert reacted, as a lot of people did, to the economic news on Thursday with some anxiety during his monologue. And because of the role President Trump’s tariffs played in the anxiety, Colbert had a throwback joke connected to some of what Trump said and did during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Today was the first day of trading on Wall Street since Trump slathered our economy in honey and staked it down next to a fire ant hill, and the Dow Jones nosedived 1,700 points, joining the S&P and NASDAQ in having their biggest drop since 2020,” Colbert said.