Late-Night Hosts Mourn Donald Trump’s ‘Exhausting’ Year in Office

President Donald Trump officially celebrated one year back in the Oval Office on Tuesday and late-night hosts expressed their frustration with how it’s gone so far.

“During that time, he has monopolized our attention every second of every minute of every hour of every day,” Stephen Colbert said on The Late Show. “Which is sad. Because today we’re not focusing on the real meaning of Jan. 20. It’s Penguin Awareness Day.”

He added, “A lot has happened in a short time. This year alone, Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, held a giant military parade on his birthday, said he wants Canada to be our 51st state, signed an executive order ending birthright citizenship, tore down the East Wing of the White House to build a ballroom, covered the remaining parts of the White House in golden gewgaws, forced Paramount to make Rush Hour 4, made himself the chair of the Kennedy Center Board and then renamed it the Trump Kennedy Center, and personally pocketed over $1.4 billion. And guess what? You didn’t remember most of that stuff.”

Colbert noted that every day there is “some new Trump horror dominating the headlines.” He explained that the whole point seems to be that “today’s maniacal criminality distracts us from yesterday’s maniac crimes.” “Which reminds me,” he said, “where are the Epstein files?”

“The last year has been exhausting,” Colbert said. “And not just for us. That’s why Trump’s always falling asleep.”

Seth Meyers, on Late Night, noted that he will celebrating Trump’s one-year anniversary back in office with the traditional one year gift, paper, while displaying a photo of a joint.

On The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon quipped, “It’s amazing, one year ago we thought renaming the Gulf of Mexico will be the craziest thing he does.”

Jimmy Kimmel, noted Trump critic, said he hoped viewers had a nice holiday weekend spent on their phones “looking at photos of how much happier we were in 2016.” He explained that even in one weekend Trump managed to ruin everything.

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“Every country hates us now,” Kimmel said. “It’s official. All of them hate us. We are the Omarosa of the world. He is so angry about getting snubbed for the Nobel Peace Prize he may literally declare war against Scandinavia, the happiest people on Earth.”

Kimmel recounted how Trump said in a speech that God is “very proud” of the job he’s done so far. “Which did not get as big a laugh as it should have,” Kimmel said.