Thursday’s episode of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” kicked off with a “Super Friends” skit that mocked Donald Trump’s Republican government for trying to procure a “heat ray” — a device that tortures people by making them feel like their skin is burning — to use against peaceful protesters outside the White House.
A major in the Army National Guard provided written testimony to Congress that the Department of Defense had asked them if they had such a heat device that they could use against protesters in front of the White House, or a long-range acoustic device that would damage their hearing.