It was a story that seemed like it was written for late night television.
Like the Washington Post Lede read: “Many US Secret Service agents have stood guard in Washington’s elite Kalorama neighborhood, home to cabinet secretaries and former presidents over the years. Those agents have had to worry about death threats, secured perimeters and suspicious strangers. But with the arrival of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, they had a new concern: finding a toilet. “
What followed was an increasingly hilarious and absurd tale of the couple’s refusal to let Secret Service agents to protect them use their six-and-a-half bathrooms, forcing taxpayers to pay the bill. for a $ 3,000 a month studio in the basement. so they had to relieve themselves somewhere.
“For those of you who think you don’t like Jared and Ivanka anymore, we have an important update,” said Stephen Colbert during his monologue Thursday evening before sharing the most absurd details of the story. “Although I understand that the Kushners’ toilets can be very busy right now with Jared and Ivanka flushing their social lives and political future.”
Like the Late show the host explained, initially the agents used a bathroom in a garage near Barack and Michelle Obama’s house down the street, but “ this solution too was short lived after a Trump / Kushner detail secret service supervisor an unpleasant mess had left the Obama bathroom. “
“Did you screw up Barack Obama’s bathroom ?!” Colbert exclaimed. ‘Come on, the man is retired! He’s literally too old for this shit !?
As for the rented studio, which has cost $ 100,000 so far, he added. ‘That’s expensive shit. Which, must I say, is really on-brand to Ivanka. “
“I wasn’t a fan of this couple before, but Jared and Ivanka seem like a sucker for not doing that. [allow] Secret service in their bathrooms, ”Colbert said. “I’m just saying, these are men and women who would literally take a bullet for you. The least you can do is let them leak. “
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