Late-Night Hosts Express Disgust With Trump's Initial Charlottesville Reaction

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On Monday's late-night shows, the hosts expressed their disgust and disappointment with Donald Trump for taking two days to condemn Nazis, the KKK and white supremacists after the deadly events in Charlottesville, Va., this past weekend.

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00:00I was sick to my stomach.

00:02On Monday's late-night shows, hosts expressed their disgust and disappointment with President Donald Trump

00:08for taking two days to condemn Nazis, the KKK, and white supremacists

00:13after the deadly events in Charlottesville, Virginia this past weekend.

00:17Over on NBC, late-night Seth Meyers solemnly spoke about the terror attack

00:22in which a white supremacist allegedly drove into a crowd of counter-protesters

00:26killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring 19 others.

00:30Meyers played Trump's much-criticized-on-many-sides statement from Saturday, saying,

00:35If that choice of words made you feel sick to your stomach, the good news is you're a normal and decent person.

00:41You can stand for a nation, or you can stand for a hateful movement. You can't do both.

00:46Earlier on The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon gave a heartfelt monologue about the Charlottesville events,

00:50calling them disgusting. The host continued, saying,

00:53The fact that it took the president two days to come out and clearly denounce racists and white supremacists

00:59is shameful.

01:01It's important for everyone, especially white people in this country, to speak out against this.

01:06Ignoring it is just as bad as supporting it.

01:08On CBS's The Late Show, Stephen Colbert criticized Trump's response as well.

01:13The host went on, saying,

01:14If only the president was as mad about neo-Nazis murdering people on the street as he's been about Hillary Clinton,

01:20The New York Times, CNN,

01:22Joe Scarborough, Kristen Stewart,

01:24The cast of Hamilton, Diet Coke,

01:26Nordstrom not selling his daughter's clothes.

01:28Okay, you get the idea.

01:30After reading the statement from Tiki Torches,

01:32disavowing the use of its product for the white supremacist rally over the weekend,

01:36Colbert added,

01:36Over on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live,

01:46Kimmel echoed the criticism, saying how,

01:48The one thing he decides to be quiet about is this.

01:59Back on CBS's The Late Late Show,

02:01James Corden also took issue with how long it took Trump to condemn white supremacists.

02:06Trump condemned Nazis today the way my four-year-old son does

02:10when I ask him to put dishes in the dishwasher.

02:13Just, fine, I'll do it.

02:17Corden, like Colbert,

02:18riled off a list of people and things that Trump condemned faster than Nazis,

02:22including Meryl Streep, James Comey, and Samuel L. Jackson,

02:26and added later he was so wound up about Trump's terrifying silence over the weekend,

02:31he sometimes forgot how worrying and disgusting the people who marched are.

02:36Guys, we're only scratching the surface here,

02:38so make sure to head to THR.com to see all the full segments on Charlottesville from late night.

02:42Let me know what you think of the response in the comments.

02:45For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Paul Costabile.

02:47For The Hollywood Reporter News

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