Late-Night Hosts Mock American Soldiers Who Protect Our Border

Whether people agree with the policies of President Donald Trump or not, no one should be using members of the American military as political props or targets of baseless and agenda-driven mockery.

But late-night hosts Trevor Noah and Stephen Colbert did just that on Wednesday night; they argued against the president’s decision to send American troops to the United States-Mexico border in anticipation of the migrant caravan that is still headed our way.

“Really, Trump is sending the same amount of troops to deal with asylum seekers as he sent to fight ISIS? That has to be so weird for the troops,” said Trevor Noah (above right), host of “The Daily Show.”

“It’d be like one guy talking to another: He’s like, ‘I’m headed to Iraq to stop a violent death cult from destroying civilization. Where are you going?’ ‘Oh, yeah, I’m going to try and convince a baby to crawl south. Just switch around.”

The leftist comedian continued, “That’s right, these migrants are both super strong and riddled with disease. These are the strongest lepers I’ve ever seen! Coming across the border, their jacked arms falling off in the streets. It’s the thing that he does best: He’s scaring the s*** out of his voters. It’s sort of like Halloween, but a racist Halloween. Or, as Megyn Kelly calls it, Halloween.”

Stephen Colbert (above left) predictably went against Trump and added his own voice to the mix. He arguably took things a bit further than Noah when describing the mission of the thousands of military members who have been sent to the border.

“This year the campaigns have been dominated by fear,” said “The Late Show” host. “Our fearmonger in chief … he knows how to stoke the fear, he knows how to appeal to the Latinophobic, the ‘his-panickers,’ if you will.”

He continued, “To combat one of the things he wants you to be afraid of, Trump has announced a plan to deploy 5,200 troops to the southern border. The Pentagon has a powerful name for this mission: Operation Faithful Patriot. Which beat out their second choice, Operation Loyal Eagle Freedom Boner.”

It’s tough to know what leftists want in this situation. Complete open borders? The government to take on full and long-term responsibility for everyone who crosses the border illegally?

They are against this simply because Trump is for it — as usual.

And it’s worth emphasizing: Military servicemen and women who put themselves on the line daily in an effort to protect this country and its citizens should not be belittled in the name of “comedy.”