Stephen Colbert
After a safe, peaceful swearing-in ceremony for Joe Biden, a deep cleansing of the White House and a virtual celebration celebrated by celebrities, Stephen Colbert felt tremendous relief for the US, he said on a live Late Show said after the inauguration day. “It’s like we were on a ship that had been in a storm for four years and we were just pulling on dry land.”
Biden’s inauguration, filled with a moving performance by youth poet-laureate Amanda Gorman, and a fact-based presidential speech suggested a ‘return to normalcy’, Colbert continued, though one marked by the still surreal disaster of the pandemic. But “even though it was abnormal, we at least understood why it was abnormal,” he said.
A year to the day after the first U.S. patient was admitted to the hospital at Covid, the incoming administration structured the day around clear Covid safety protocols. ‘So many times over the last four years we’re all been like,’ What the hell is going on there? Why is this happening? ‘, Colbert said about the previous government. “And they would not tell us. They would not tell us the right reasons because everything was a sales pitch. And the strangest feeling in the world is when something is clearly abnormal and someone tries to tell you that it is not.
“What we saw today was the opposite of gas lighting,” he added. “Today was our reality, and I am for it.”
Colbert also celebrated the historic inauguration of America’s first female vice president, Kamala Harris. “It’s a moment that future generations will look back on and say, ‘wow, that’s been a long time coming,’ he said. Harris becomes not only the first female, first black and first South Asian American VP, but also ‘the first vice president in four years who does not think yogurt is too spicy’, he joked.
Trevor Noah
“Despite the pandemic, this inauguration had it all,” Trevor Noah told the Daily Show. Highlights included: former president; the youngest inaugural poet in Gorman; ‘A wonderful singer carrying her own Etsy shop’ with Lady Gaga in her Hunger Games-like stand up; “An Old Man on the Way to the Post Office” in Bernie Sanders, with his papa-chic gloves in Vermont; and “even a lady whose outfit calls me a broken bitch” with Michelle Obama in a wide-legged fuchsia suit.
Immediately after the ceremony, Biden signed 15 executive orders, including measures to rejoin the Paris climate agreement, close the Keystone XL pipeline, reverse the ban on travel and immigration from several Muslim-majority countries, and mandate on federal countries for 100 days and extend the break on student collection.
“Let’s say, the White House bathrooms are not the only place where Biden wants to erase any trace of Donald Trump,” Noah explained, calling the wave of orders a “major reversal of Trump’s legacy.”
“Even though it’s right now with the US Covid tariffs, I don’t think the last one is going to make a big difference,” he added about the infamous Muslim ban.
Samantha Bee
Despite Biden’s initial plea for unity, “Republicans are furious that Joe Biden is choosing to divide America by becoming president,” Samantha Bee joked on Full Frontal. “And if that was not divisive, he’s openly planning to do things.”
With control of the White House, the Senate and the House, “Democrats are in an unimaginable position: we can finally do things that help people!” Said Bee. “For the next two years, we can confirm liberal judges and pass legislation that does not suck.”
Bee looked ahead to possible democratic accomplishments with paid family leave, universal kindergarten, debt-free community college, and some form of debt forgiveness. Their slim majority in the Senate, however, does not allow every idea of Biden-Harris; if the new government wants to restore the Voting Rights Act, implement immigration reform, or pursue the state capture of DC and Puerto Rico, which requires votes from the GOP’s Senate, Biden will ‘finally face the Clan’s Gambit’ , Bee joked about an image of The Republican senators Mitch McConnell, Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham, who all support Trump’s unfounded election fraud.
Seth Meyers
Wednesday’s inauguration was “a bit like getting rid of the last guy at a party,” Seth Meyers joked on Late Night. “We hung out for four years and stretched and hinted that he should get out, and then it’s a relief when he finally leaves, until you remember that you have to clean up all his pussy, and like he’d peck everywhere.
The related issue includes performances by Jennifer Lopez and Lady Gaga – “a good break from the Trump era, when the only musical performances that would be associated with the president were 3 Doors Down and the children who were stiffened by Trump”, he added. , referring to USA Freedom Kids, who performed at Trump’s rallies and later sued him for non-payment.
Meyers also focused on Biden’s moving inaugural address, in which he urged Americans to rise above bias and face the challenges of the pandemic, systemic racism and inequality together. “Republicans incited an uprising, and then complained that Democrats are not trying to unite the nation,” Meyers said. “Meanwhile, Biden has talked more about unity than a marriage counselor who is only paid if the couple stays together.”
Jimmy Kimmel
And in Los Angeles, Jimmy Kimmel recalls Donald Trump’s inauguration four years ago, a ‘terrible day’ during which he wondered, ‘Can our country survive years of this?’
“And now we know the answer: not really,” he said. “Just rare. But we got it right. ”
Kimmel also reflects on the story of two Wednesdays in January 2021: ‘Two weeks ago, a bunch of dangerous imks with Donald Trump flags tried to overthrow the government. At the same place today we sang the national anthem by Lady Gaga. To describe Michelle Obama, if they are low, we go J Lo. ‘
“And while Joe Biden was sworn in, in Florida in Mar-a-Lago, an omelette official is sworn in,” Kimmel added as Trump snuck to his Florida golf course after a sparse morning broadcast in Washington. Trump’s sons Eric and Don Jr. wiped their father with visible tears – “it’s heartbreaking to see children separated from their parents, isn’t it?” Kimmel spoke recently about Trump’s legacy of immigration and divorce.