“The Every day Present” laid into the Trump administration’s determination to chop free entry to nationwide parks on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth.
Host Ronny Chieng addressed the adjustments to the nationwide park’s free entry days throughout Tuesday’s monologue, through which he joked, “our nationwide parks simply received just a little additional nationalist.”
“Let’s kick issues off with nationwide parks, , that factor you see if you go to sleep in entrance of your Apple TV,” he mentioned. “They’re one in every of America’s most treasured establishments. And now the Trump administration is making some thrilling adjustments.”
“The Every day Present” then aired information footage explaining the current adjustments, together with the truth that President Donald Trump’s birthday was added as a free entry day and MLK Day and Juneteenth have been faraway from the record.
After the information reporter famous there was “no phrase why these adjustments have been made,” Chieng chimed in and sarcastically quipped, “Yeah, no phrase on why Trump made these adjustments to MLK Day and Juneteenth on the nationwide parks. I imply, what purpose might that be?”
He added: “All I do know is, if you happen to’re a black bear proper now, you’re hibernating with one eye open.”
Chieng then took a second to (considerably) defend Trump from critics accusing the president of “making an attempt to make his birthday right into a nationwide vacation.”
“No, it’s for Flag Day,” Chieng mentioned. “You already know Flag Day, that vacation everyone knows and love the place we cease no matter we’re doing to go to a nationwide park and rejoice flags.”
Watch Chieng’s full monologue above.
“The Every day Present” airs weeknights at 11 p.m. ET on Comedy Central.
