What with the White House's lethally disastrous handling of the coronavirus pandemic and the president's need to prop up his ego by downplaying the scale of the crisis, something unimaginable has happened in the last few weeks. It's actually been possible to forget, at times, that this is an election year.
Sure, commentators are regularly commenting on how Trump's lack of leadership will impact his prospects come November, but February's clamor of debates, primaries, and attack ads has (understandably) faded into the background as we grapple with the biggest global crisis of our lifetimes.
But on Thursday Trump's campaign manager, Brad Parscale, reminded us what's still to come when he tweeted an ominous tease of the "juggernaut campaign." Or, as he nicknamed it in his boss's bizarre parenthetical style, "(Death Star)".
You can bet Late Show host Stephen Colbert had jokes for that.
"First of all, Brad, it's refreshingly honest of you to say you're the people in Star Wars who were designed after the Nazis," he began in Thursday night's monologue. "But, um, have you seen the movie? Spoiler alert: It doesn't end great for the Death Star. And I'm gonna go ahead and say that a deadly pandemic is maybe not the best time to associate yourself with something that kills the population of an entire planet."
"But I have to admit," he added, "it would make a catchy new T-shirt: 'TRUMP 2020: Objectively Bad With Easily Exploitable Design Flaws.'"
Now the Democrats just have to find Trump's particle exhaust vent. Shouldn't be that hard, right?
