CBS’s Taylor Tomlinson was distraught on Wednesday’s edition of After Midnight. Not only did she say President Donald Trump’s Tuesday address to Congress was full of “lies, propaganda, and threats,” but she also accused Democrats and the New York Times of not being able to stand up to Trump and his “fascism.”
Tomlinson remarked that “Trump's speech was full of lies, propaganda, and threats. It was pretty scary. Luckily, Democrats stood up to him the only way they know how: by writing about it later in their diaries.”
Against the backdrop of a Photoshopped image of Pete Buttigieg, Tomlinson proceeded, “‘Dear diary, Donald is the freaking meaniest.’”
Moving on to Democrats’ actual antics, she continued in her lamentations, “I really love that while Trump was saying the wildest [bleep] on Earth, Democrats just sat there with their little paddles. Like, you really should not stand up to fascism the way that we play ‘Is it caked.’ Trump could dig up FDR’s corpse, put makeup on it, and light it on fire, and Democrats would hold up a sign like ‘This violates norms.’”
Next, Tomlinson tried to act as if the media hasn’t spent the last ten years freaking out over Trump, “The media coverage is not effective either. The New York Times added a heading on their website in response to Trump's plans titled ‘Is that legal?’ Next we'll see headings for ‘Can he do that?’ And then it'll be, ‘Uh oh, he did that.’ Followed by ‘10 fun new ways to spice up your gruel!’"
The problem for Tomlinson and the rest of the late night comedians who think that Democrats are being ineffectual is that the left has spent several decades warning about impending fascism and the last several years calling Trump a lying liar who lies all the time. Yet, voters haven’t reacted as they would like, so they are either the boy who cried wolf or they need to examine their own policies and become less insane.
Here is a transcript for the March 5-taped show:
CBS After Midnight
3/6/2025
12:37 AM ET
TAYLOR TOMLINSON: Trump's speech was full of lies, propaganda, and threats. It was pretty scary. Luckily, Democrats stood up to him the only way they know how: by writing about it later in their diaries. “Dear diary, Donald is the freaking meaniest.”
I really love that while Trump was saying the wildest [bleep] on Earth, Democrats just sat there with their little paddles. Like, you really should not stand up to fascism the way that we play "Is it caked."
Trump could dig up FDR’s corpse, put makeup on it, and light it on fire, and Democrats would hold up a sign like "This violates norms." Don't like that.
The media coverage is not effective either. The New York Times added a heading on their website in response to Trump's plans titled "Is that legal?" Next we'll see headings for "Can he do that?" And then it'll be, "Uh oh, he did that." Followed by "10 fun new ways to spice up your gruel!"
