‘Even Toilet Paper Will Cost More’: Late-Night Comedians Colbert, Fallon Roast Trump’s India Tariffs With Brutal Punchlines | World News
Washington: US President Donald Trump’s trade policy has fired not only from diplomats and economists, but from America’s most popular night comedians. Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon used Thursday shows to target the 50 percent tariff on Indian goods.
The penalty in India comes in two stages: an increase of 25 percent from August 7, then comes 25 percent more on August 27th. Washington said the movement was a penalty for the new Delhi to continue to continue Russian oil. Tariffs apply to a long product list from medical materials to daily consumer items.
In the late show, Colbert went directly for humor. He told the audience that the tariffs will increase the price of gauze, bandage and even wandering. “The perfect time to introduce my new product, Steve’s Wad. What’s in them? What do you care about? Bleeding.
He made the jabs come. “I hope you remembered to bring your watches back as ‘more expensive’, Col said Colbert, referring to the scale of the global tariff presentation.
He described marches as “big ve and stressed that they have increased import taxes to the highest level since the Great Depression of 1929.
Colbert said that Brazil, like India, is facing 50 percent tariff. “Bad news for Meat -based Americans,” he is deadly.
Jimmy Fallon, which is home to the NBC’s Tonight Show, joined in a cynical way. “Today, President Trump’s tariffs came into force for more than 90 countries, including Canada, Brazil and India. The only place Trump does not blame North Korea and Epstein island,” he said.
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Fallon, Brazil’s tariff will harden tropical fruit prices, he said. “Fifty percent in Brazil will significantly increase the price of fifty bananas, mango and pineapple. Edible arrangements, ‘melon and long toothpick price as long as we are good’ was like ‘.
Fallon said that even daily staples will not be forgiven. “Toilet paper will be more expensive. When people leave the bathroom ‘hey, where is this long CVS receipt?’
The latest tariff tour, which covers more than 90 countries, prepared the ground for a long trade conflict. In the meantime, Colbert and Fallon seem to be determined to transform the policy into fist lines late at night.
