Stephen Colbert says Trump takes phone calls with world leaders like an improv team

"I need a suggestion of a country and something to tariff. Anybody?"
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Stephen Colbert says Trump takes phone calls with world leaders like an improv team
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Following the call that could spell im-🍑-ment for Donald Trump, the president's phone calls with world leaders have been generally compared to his predecessors' as "freestyle and ad-libbed."

Stephen Colbert took this comment and ran with it on The Late Show Wednesday, comparing this make-it-up-as-you-go style to the most notorious of ad-lib specialists.

"He's basically doing diplomacy like an improv team," he quipped, descending into an impression that's a little too... real.

"'OK everybody, welcome! Alright let's bring the lights up. I'm about to call a foreign leader. I need a suggestion of a country and something to tariff. Anybody? I heard Switzerland and cuckoo clocks. We take you now to a proctologist's office on the moon."

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Shannon Connellan
UK Editor

Shannon Connellan is Mashable's UK Editor based in London, formerly Mashable's Australia Editor, but emotionally, she lives in the Creel House. A Tomatometer-approved critic, Shannon writes about entertainment, tech, social good, science, culture, and Australian horror.


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