“This weekend was Father’s Day and daddy acquired simply what he wished: nobody got here to Trump’s large silly birthday parade,” Stephen Colbert stated to kick off The Late Present.

“Don’t be concerned in case you forgot,” Seth Meyers added from Late Night time. “Everybody did.”

Over on Jimmy Kimmel Dwell!, the host quipped, “Turnout was a lot decrease than anticipated, or as Trump would say, there have been record-setting crowds.”

However the official depend of individuals in attendance, no less than in accordance with the White Home, was 1 / 4 of one million folks. Which may be the federal government’s official tally, however primarily based on all the video footage proven on tv, late-night is not shopping for it.

“The White Home is now claiming that over 250,000 folks attended the parade. It was an estimate, give or take 250,000,” Jimmy Fallon joked on The Tonight Present.

His fellow late-night hosts weren’t going to let these sweeping pictures of an empty garden and half-empty bleachers go unmentioned, although, in gentle of the lofty quantity touted by the White Home.

“In fact, the White Home claims that 250,000 folks attended, so now, apparently, 1 / 4 of one million folks appears like this,” stated Colbert, sharing a shot of the nearly-empty garden. “They should be actually good at hide-and-seek. MAGA stands for Make America Grass once more.”

Meyers had a unique principle in his “A Nearer Look” section, speculating that possibly “everybody in attendance acquired to check out new Military-developed stealth expertise that makes you invisible to cameras.”

They did not cease with footage of the group measurement — or lack thereof — in DC. Additionally they checked out reside footage of the parade itself, which was … “boring,” in accordance with Kimmel.

“After all of the hype and cash, someplace round $50 million, it was boring,” he stated. “It was mainly a $50 million model of when a 5-year-old exhibits you each automotive in his Scorching Wheels assortment.”

“It appeared like no person was having an excellent time at this factor, not even Donald Trump,” agreed Colbert, displaying a viral shot of the president wanting depressed alongside Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth and First Girl Melania Trump. “That’s one unhappy sack of potatoes.”

“It appeared like Trump was even bored at his personal parade. You understand it is dangerous when the one who appears most glad to be there may be Melania,” Fallon added, as Jon Stewart on The Every day Present agreed that the “the VIPs fortunate sufficient to see it” definitely gave the impression to be “bored out of their f–king minds.”

“There’s Sleepy Don taking all of it in,” Kimmel quipped. “In equity, that is as shut as he will get to with the ability to sleep together with his spouse, so he took the chance.”

A number of of the hosts famous a delicate second caught on cameras, when Trump tried to sign to Melania together with his finger that he wished to carry arms — or no less than that is the way it appeared — just for her to disregard him.

“That was dangerous of her to reject his pinky as a result of as Commander-in-Chief he may have declared a thumb struggle,” Colbert famous.

Trump wanting “bored” at his personal parade did not actually shock anybody in late-night, although, because the affair did come throughout just a little lackluster on the display screen, and actually delighted most of them.

Meyers defined why the sight of “tremendous unhappy” Trump really cheered him up over the weekend, explaining that the viral shot of the president “is the essence of America.”

“You could be the president of the US. You possibly can have a whole political get together and a worldwide media equipment at your disposal, you possibly can cow the media and the rich into obedience, you possibly can command a military and deploy troops and have limitless wealth and energy, however you continue to cannot power folks to come back to your f–king birthday celebration,” he stated. “The one method this may very well be any extra excellent is that if he was carrying just a little paper hat.”

The clear star of the parade — no less than insofar because it was the simplest component for late-night to crack jokes about — was one explicit tank that was just a little noisier than the others, in addition to the lackluster crowd that was not cheering a lot in any respect.

“Now we have a trillion-dollar price range for the navy, no person’s acquired WD-40?” requested Stewart. “If that tank have been a cart on the grocery retailer, you’d put it again,” Fallon quipped. “God forbid that tank is required in battle.”

“We could have gained WWII, however this weekend, we misplaced the battle of WD-40,” Colbert laughed whereas displaying the footage, as Kimmel joked, “This one may have used a few of Diddy’s child oil to get it going.”

“This was much less a present of overwhelming power and extra like a navy museum getting in its steps,” Stewart determined.

Additionally they poked enjoyable at information protection speaking concerning the parade being intimidating, with smiling and waving troopers, and odd decisions like troopers carrying navy drones and holding them up within the air — main a number of hosts to marvel in the event that they know these issues may fly.

Each Meyers and Kimmel discovered the identical pint-sized comparability when occupied with the general navy parade, with Kimmel calling it “our president’s GI Joe-themed birthday celebration,” whereas Meyers requested, “is {that a} navy parade or a GI Joe-themed bar mitzvah.”

“I do know if that evokes awe a lot because it evokes ‘aw,’” he added.

Stewart did discover a sure attraction to the underwhelming affair, having fun with how the parade confirmed off the historical past of the Military “from its days of tri-cornered hats and muskets to its courageous future as robotic canine walkers,” although they weren’t his favourite robotic canines of the weekend! These got here throughout the different occasions that dwarfed the parade in scope and attendance.

“So the group was just a little sparse down in DC, however are you aware the place folks did present up?” Colbert requested. “All over the place else in America.”

“The a lot, a lot bigger crowds have been the teams of Individuals gathering to protest Trump and his new deport-first-ask-questions-later immigration coverage,” Kimmel stated.

Stewart agreed, noting, “The true crowds turned out for the ‘No Kings’ march, the place tens of millions gathered in cities all throughout the nation to protest our sluggish descent into authoritarian dystopia.”

He then could not assist however revisit his favourite a part of the navy parade when noting how Boston’s “No Kings” protests occurred to coincide with town’s official Satisfaction parade, resulting in joint protests and, apparently, robotic canines in Satisfaction gear.

“The gays have developed robotic canines as properly?” he requested after seeing the footage. “Or are these simply the homosexual robotic canines that Secretary Hegseth would not enable to serve overtly in our different Military.”

“They are not allowed to serve?” he stated, earlier than turning to the digicam with perspective. “Properly guess what, they’re serving!”

The huge disparity between the protests — and people artistic indicators the hosts have been all loving — and Trump’s parade “needed to be a tough birthday for him,” Colbert famous.

He then in contrast it to a mom telling her son, “Billy, nobody RSVP’d to your get together. Perhaps we may cease over on the neighbor’s. They have a ton of youngsters leaping within the pool yelling, ‘We hate Billy.’”

However Kimmel appreciated that Trump was already placing his spin machine to work, pointing the finger of blame some place else. “The lackluster crowdsize wasn’t Trump’s fault, and imagine it or not, it wasn’t even Biden’s fault,” he stated. “The blame for this one goes squarely on the unconventional left-wing climate folks.”

He then performed footage of Trump complaining concerning the forecasters predicting a “100%” likelihood of rain for Saturday, earlier than saying it was a wonderful day. “Seems like he is about to begin deporting meteorologists,” Kimmel stated, lamenting poor Al Roker heading to El Salvador.

Watching that second, Stewart could not assist however really feel that it was maybe probably the most acceptable method for Trump to have fun his birthday. In any case, “Nothing says ‘I simply turned 79’ like shouting about how the climate forecast was flawed.”