When Barack Obama was president, finding a joke at his expense on a late-night show was about as rare as finding an honest politician. Instead, the president seemed to have an open invitation to take part in comedy skits and salivate on softball questions about unpopular policy.

President Trump has held office for less than a week, and he already has no such luck. The comedy knives have been out for him like they never were under Obama — despite there being plenty to satire in the previous administration.

What should come as a surprise is the contrast between jokes at Obama’s expense and jokes at the current president’s expense.

Here was Conan O’Brien in a recent opening monologue: “President Trump announced he will nominate a new Supreme Court justice sometime next week. Trump said, ‘I just need a few more days to come up with someone completely unqualified.’ He’ll do it. There’s someone out there. I think it’s Scott Baio.”

Here was Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday night’s edition of “The Tonight Show”: “And today, President Trump signed executive orders to continue construction on the controversial Keystone and Dakota access oil pipelines. I guess he hasn’t seen a massive protest since Saturday and he kind of misses it.”

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Fallon, who “slow-jammed” the news with Obama before Trump was in office, couldn’t get enough of Trump in his opening monologue. “I saw that ABC will air a primetime special with President Trump tomorrow night, marking his first interview since taking office. Even though the interview hasn’t even aired yet, Trump is already claiming it was watched by a billion people. You can find that stuff out.”

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And here was Trevor Noah of “The Daily Show” — which has always had a leftist bent — joking Tuesday night, “This is Sean Spicer’s job — Trump bulls***s, and he’s the guy who’s agreed to go out every day with the air freshener. By the way, not good air freshener. You know that air freshener that just makes things worse. You know like when you walk in and smell the s*** and the air freshener. You know that when you walk in the room and go, ‘Ahhh! Somebody took a s*** on old lemons! What’s going on in this room?!'”

It’s comedy’s job to keep power in check and to satirize authority, so it should come as no surprise to find jokes about a president on late-night programs. However, what should come as a surprise is the contrast between jokes at Obama’s expense and jokes at the current president’s expense.

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Late-night hosts have poked more fun at Trump in less than a week than they did in eight years of Obama. What’s also surprising is the hyper-focus of Trump by these humorists.

It’s all Trump all the time.

Think about it: Trump has been busier in just a few days in the Oval Office than Obama was over the course of two terms. Then there’s the crumbling of the Democratic Party. Then there’s the fact that he’s doing absolutely everything he said he would do — whether people agree with that or not. That’s something Obama could have used a few notes on.

As long as late-night hosts stay the same, they will keep their hyper-partisan bent. There will be no hope for the president. He could cure cancer tomorrow, and he’d still be the focus of the majority of jokes by these funnymen. Just like Obama could get away with anything he wanted and could always count on liberal humorists to turn the other cheek.