Colbert has a snaky name for White House's Putin invitation: 'Titanic 2: Here We Go Again'

"Folks, it's hard to imagine you could be this shocked every day by the Trump administration. I mean, freshly shocked," "Late Show" host Stephen Colbert in his monologue, which focused on the news that President Trump has invited Vladimir Putin to visit the White House less than a week after publicly taking Russia's word that they didn't interfere in the 2016 election over that of his own intelligence agencies.

He surmised, "I think it's because every day, they attach the electrodes to a different part of us. And let's just say that today, they had to shave us first just to get contact."

After all, Colbert said, "Americans of every political stripe have been horrified by Trump's Helsinki Helsucking, where Putin was playing chess while Trump was eating his won checkers," Stephen Colbert said Thursday. "And everybody around Trump has spent this whole week trying to put distance  between Trump and Putin so this whole sordid thing could be behind us and we could go back to the people's business of caging toddlers."

"But today Trump tweeted that, 'The Summit with Russia was a great success, except with the real enemy of the people, the Fake News Media. I look forward to our second meeting."

Cue the spit take.

"Second meeting?!?" the "Late Show" host exclaimed. "Second meeting? Because the first one went so well? It's just like the exciting sequel coming out this summer: 'Titanic 2! Here We Go Again!' This time, it ends well. "

Colbert tried not to assume the worst. "That's kind of vague. Second meeting, could happen. After all, he mused, "Where would he even meet with a universally condemned, war criminal strong man who personally ordered the attack on our election?"

A second spit taker followed a clip of CNN reporting that press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders had tweeted that the president had asked national security adviser John Bolton to invite Putin to Washington this fall.

"He's inviting him to Washington?!?" Then addressing Trump, Colbert said, "Nothing could have gone worse than your meeting in Helsinki. It embarrassed our country. It enraged our allies. It strongly reinforced the idea that Putin's got something on you. And it's the first time your party has turned against you even a little."

He observed, "This meeting is really going to be a tough one for director of national intelligence and demise Dan Coats. Now you remember, Trump threw Coats and his intelligence agencies to side with Putin, so it's hard to imagine the look on his face when he heard about this ... Luckily, you don't have to imagine it because he was giving a live interview when it broke."

He cut to a clip of Coats, the man tasked with knowing everything about this country's secrets, finding out about the visit from a reporter and then asked, "Dan, would you like to borrow my mug?"

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