Samantha Bee skewered Donald Trumps performance in the final presidential debate and the medias shortsighted reaction to the Republican nominees quip about not accepting election results on Full FrontalMonday.
Proudly donning a custom Nasty Woman T-shirt, Bee showed Trump fumbling through basic questions about the Supreme Court, gun laws and the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which the nominee referred to as Start Up. Its called START you fucking moron, Bee joked. Heres a mnemonic, Its 14 days until the election. Time to START reading a book.'
Elsewhere, Bee compared Trump taking Hillary Clintons Putins Puppet bait to Wile E. Coyote running into a road painted on the side of a mountain, and hardly seemed surprised that the candidate threatening religious and press freedom was also questioning the legitimacy of the election.
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Bee reserved most of her anger at the press for failing to see Trumps disregard for democracy as an outgrowth of the Republican political establishment; an establishment thats held 62 votes in the House to repeal Obamacare and has still refused to grant Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland a hearing in the Senate. Looking at the results of a Democratic election and saying Fuck that! has been official Republican policy for at least eight years now, Bee cracked.
In the second part of her debate coverage, Bee looked specifically at the discussion on abortion, and Trumps cringe-worthy and medically inaccurate comments on partial-birth abortions, which Bee proclaimed with a megaphone, are not a thing. But Bee also took a moment to praise Clinton, whose response to Trump revealed her to be the passionate and unapologetic feminist we havent seen since the Nineties. One who stood in a shower of shit and managed to do what 16 primary candidates and the entire Republican establishment couldnt: Namely, beat this dick-waving, Berlusconi knock-off like a little bitch.