{"id":510167,"date":"2026-06-25T09:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/510167\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T09:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:09:14","slug":"josh-johnson-on-trumps-reflecting-pool-drama-the-worlds-largest-kombucha-late-night-tv-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/510167\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Johnson on Trump\u2019s reflecting pool drama: \u2018the world\u2019s largest kombucha\u2019 | Late-night TV roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

On The Daily Show, Josh Johnson discussed Scottish soccer fans descending on Miami, Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s \u201cKool-Aid\u201d green reflecting pool and the startling appearance of one Fox News host.<\/p>\n

On Comedy<\/a> Central last night, Josh Johnson discussed Scottish soccer fans descending on south Florida as their country\u2019s team prepares to face Brazil in the World Cup.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is so fun,\u201d the host remarked. \u201cAlso, I\u2019m just happy to see an all-white parade where they\u2019re not chanting about Jews.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not sure about the bagpipes though. You know the Loch Ness Monster is back in Scotland right now like, \u2018Finally I can get some sleep. The only reason I\u2019m so elusive is \u2019cause I don\u2019t want to hear those damn bagpipes.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnson then turned to the issue of the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, which has turned green with algae since Trump attempted to refurbish the tourist attraction.<\/p>\n

Against all odds, the pool has now become more of a tourist destination, with Johnson calling it \u201cthe first breakout hit of the summer\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cHey, kids, remember you wanted to go to Disneyland?\u201d said Johnson, impersonating a peppy parent. \u201cInstead, we\u2019re going to go see the world\u2019s largest kombucha!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is how far America has fallen,\u201d deadpanned the host. \u201cThe last time we collected this many people around the reflecting pool was for civil rights. People were like, \u2018We must come out to support Dr King<\/a>.\u2019 Sixty years later, we\u2019re like, \u2018A slimy pool? This I gotta see!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

While the growth of algae in a shallow pool is natural and inevitable, Trump has claimed that it\u2019s due to someone sneaking into the pool and \u201chacking at\u201d its floor.<\/p>\n

\u201cDonnie, let me help you out: you have got to chill,\u201d said Johnson. \u201cPeople are not shanking the pool at night. Also, you\u2019ve got one of the biggest algae eaters in your cabinet,\u201d he added, before flashing up an image of Robert F Kennedy Jr<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In recent weeks, 17 police reports have been filed for vandalism of the reflecting pool, leading to six arrests. \u201cDang, you treating the reflecting pool like Epstein<\/a> drowned in it,\u201d laughed Johnson.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou talked it up so much, you jinxed it,\u201d he added. \u201cNow I want to let him build the ballroom, just to see how bad it turns out. I bet it disintegrates at the first Cha-Cha Slide.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe lesson here is Trump, you got to wait until after you do something to flex,\u201d Johnson went on. \u201cIf you had never made a big deal out of the pool, no one would have noticed.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump basically shot a buzzer-beating game-winning shot, turned around and threw his hands up in the air to celebrate, and then instead of going in, it missed and killed a baby duckling. Now you got people across the country coming over to gawk at the fact that you turned the reflecting pool into a Kool-Aid bucket.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of your supporters in the media, who should have been defending your Iran disaster or your economic disaster, now have to defend this disaster.<\/p>\n

On Fox News, host Sean Hannity<\/a> commented that the left \u201care rooting for [Trump\u2019s] failure, and in this case they\u2019re even rooting for algae\u201d.<\/p>\n

Looking bewildered, Johnson responded, \u201cI\u2019m sorry, this is not the point, but what is going on with Sean Hannity\u2019s face? I have never seen white cheeks that big that haven\u2019t been rapped about. Is he auditioning for a new chipmunks movie where Alvin eats Simon and Theodore?<\/p>\n

\u201cSean, you gotta address this. You can\u2019t just walk into a room and sit down in front of a camera with a BBL on your face.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On The Daily Show, Josh Johnson discussed Scottish soccer fans descending on Miami, Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cKool-Aid\u201d green reflecting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":["post-510167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}