The joke about Trump aired Dec. 3 during an episode of “The Late Show,” when Great Britain’s Prince Harry made a surprise appearance during Stephen Colbert’s stand-up routine.
“I wouldn't say we're obsessed with royalty,” Colbert told Prince Harry.
“Really? I heard you elected a king,” Prince Harry, the son of a literal king, replied.
The punch line about President Trump did its job: The audience that was giddy immediately booed the president, who is routinely called a dictator and a wannabe king by his critics.
Nicholas Fondacaro is associate editor of Newsbusters, an arm of the Media Research Center. He told AFN he had one word for the joke: dumb.
The joke didn’t even make sense, Fondacaro said, because kings aren’t elected and Prince Harry’s punchline even states Trump was elected.
The other problem with the punch line, the media analyst observed, is the person who said it is the actual member of royalty.
"The guy is literally a prince," said Fondacaro.
The irony of the “Late Night” audience booing Trump is cameras showed the shocked audience excitedly jumping to its feet to clap for a literal member of royalty.
Prince Harry’s bloodline goes back more than 1,000 years to William the Conqueror and the House of Normandy. The modern Royal Family is the House of Windsor, led by King Charles, who is so coddled he famously depended on a butler to squirt toothpaste onto his toothbrush when he was Prince of Wales.
Great Britain’s modern-day royal family is estimated to sit on a $100 billion fortune.
