"It has been a helluva week,"
Stephen Colbert said on Thursday's Late Show. "A lot of people are celebrating because
Donald Trump is in serious trouble, but Trump has shown over and over again that when he's cornered, he will fight like the rabid weasel that lives on his head. And
Republicans have shown they'll go along with whatever he does, no matter what. So this isn't going to be so much light at the end of the tunnel as a long fall down a dark and dirty pit."The day started with the release of the damning whistleblower complaint from a U.S. intelligence officer concerned about Trump's interactions with Ukraine's president. "Whoever blew this whistle does not mince words," Colbert said. "Soliciting interference from a foreign power to influence a U.S.
election — well, you know what they say: If at first you do succeed, try, try that again." And the allegation that the
White House tried to "lock down" the transcript in a top secret computer network? "Is everything Trump accuses someone else of, something he's done?" Colbert asked. "He used a secret computer server, he colluded with
Ukraine, he probably cheated on Robert Pattinson — Robert, you can do so much better. Innocent people do not do things like this.""Trump reacted to his bad news day the way he always does, thumbs first, tweet-screaming: 'THE DEMOCRATS ARE TRYING TO DESTROY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND ALL THAT IT STANDS FOR.' But, you beat 'em to it," Colbert said. "And even for Donald Trump, this morning's tweets were off the rails. You can watch him read some of them — and show Trump threatening his staff with death — below.