Stephen Colbert on Thursday had one request for viewers after revealing that President-elect Donald Trump had just nominated “anti-vax nepo-maniac” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be his secretary of Health and Human Services.
“We should all keep an open mind,” Colbert said. “Because that’s how the worm gets in.”
Kennedy said earlier this year that a parasitic worm had eaten part of his brain.
“So RFK Jr. is now in charge of our health. Exactly what everyone voted for,” Colbert said, then deadpanned: “Surely this will lower the price of eggs.”
Trump’s selection of Kennedy comes one day after he unveiled former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who had been under investigation in a sex trafficking probe involving a 17-year-old girl, as his pick for attorney general.
Gaetz resigned from Congress immediately, reportedly just before a damning ethics report was about to completed. His resignation means that report will likely never see the light of day.
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“Dear Santa,” Colbert said. “I have been a very good boy this year and have only one wish: For a comet to hit the Earth and bathe us in the bright, cleansing flames. And one of those electric bikes where you don’t have to pedal.”
See more in his Thursday night “Late Show” monologue: