US late-night hosts have ridiculed President Donald Trump after he extended an indefinite ceasefire with Iran, reversing his earlier threat to let it expire. The ceasefire, originally due to end on Wednesday night, was granted an indefinite extension on Tuesday, despite Trump having said it was 'highly unlikely' he would do so.
Jimmy Kimmel compared the situation to a plumber's botched job, saying: 'What Trump is doing right now, it’s like if you hired a plumber to install a new toilet, and the plumber tells you it will only take an hour to put it in, and then there you are eight weeks later and you still have a hole in the ground.' Kimmel also mocked Trump's credibility, stating: 'This is a man whose word is as good as the gold commode he sits on.'
Stephen Colbert noted that peace talks, which were supposed to begin in Islamabad, were delayed after US negotiators postponed their trip. He joked: 'Based on what we know now, it doesn’t look Islama-good.' Colbert also took aim at Trump’s claim that he would have won the Vietnam War 'very, very quickly', impersonating the president with a reference to the film Forrest Gump.
Seth Meyers focused on the negotiations themselves, saying Trump was trying to reduce a three-page peace plan to just one page. He also noted Trump’s remark about reaching a deal 'the nice way or the hard way', commenting: 'That’s not how you reach a peace deal. That’s something you yell during a bank robbery.'
