00:00 Stephen Colbert WELCOME TO THE LATE SHOW, EVERYBODY. 00:01 I'M YOUR HOST, STEPHEN COLBERT. 00:03 AND YOU FIRMLY ESTABLISHED IT, IT'S FRIDAY ALREADY. 00:07 BUT HEY, LISTEN, I'M NOT GOING TO SEE YOU NEXT WEEK. 00:09 HAPPY 4TH OF JULY, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. 00:12 IN HERE, OUT THERE, GREATEST COUNTRY ON EARTH. 00:15 GREATEST COUNTRY ON EARTH. 00:17 THIS IS OUR BIRTHDAY COMING UP, THE ONLY HOLIDAY WHERE PEOPLE ARE COOL WHEN YOU START SETTING STUFF ON FIRE. 00:23 FIRE. 00:23 AND AS GREAT AS IT IS TO CELEBRATE AMERICA ONCE IN A WHILE, 00:26 I'D LIKE TO TAKE A MOMENT TO REMEMBER THAT THERE ARE COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT US, AND THEY ARE NOT SO HOT ON OUR PRESIDENT. 00:35 IN A POLL RELEASED THIS WEEK BY PEW-PEW-PEW, TRUMP'S APPROVAL RATING WORLDWIDE IS 22%. 00:43 MR. PRESIDENT, CONGRATULATIONS. 00:48 YOU'VE UNITED THE PLANET. 00:51 PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD JOIN IN, TINY HANDS JOIN IN, JOIN THE TRUMP TRAIN, TRUMP TRAIN. 00:58 NOW, TRUMP'S, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR JUMPING IN THERE, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, UNREHEARSED. 01:03 AND IT'S NOT JUST EUROPE, LAYS AND GENTLEMEN. 01:06 TRUMP IS UNPOPULAR IN SIX CONTINENTS. 01:10 YES, THE ONLY PLACE THEY LIKE HIM IS ANNARTICA. 01:15 YEAH. 01:18 THAT'S NICE. 01:18 I'LL TELL YOU WHAT, THOUGH. 01:20 I'LL TELL YOU WHAT, THOUGH. 01:21 DO NOT TELL THOSE PENGUINS ABOUT PULLING OUT OF THE PARIS ACCORDS. 01:27 AND TRUMP'S APPROVAL RATINGS ARE DOWN IN MOST OF OUR CLOSEST ALLIES, ESPECIALLY THE GERMANS WITH 87% LACKING CONFIDENCE IN TRUMP. 01:37 OKAY, HOLD ON, GERMANY. 01:39 YOU'RE NOT KNOWN FOR PICKING GREAT LEADERS, OKAY? 01:43 PEOPLE IN GLASS HOUSES SHOULDN'T THROW HITLERS. 01:47 BUT THERE IS ONE COUNTRY WHERE AMERICA'S REPUTATION IS ON THE RISE, WAIT FOR IT, RUSSIA, WHERE CONFIDENCE IN THE U.S. PRESIDENT SURGED TO 53% FROM 11%. 01:59 IT EXPLAINS TRUMP'S 2020 CAMPAIGN SLOGAN, TRUMP 2020, I CAN'T READ IT, IT'S IN RUSSIAN. 02:07 NOW, IF THERE'S ONE THING WE KNOW ABOUT DONALD TRUMP, ABOUT THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, IS THAT HE LOVES SEEING HIS NAME ON BUILDINGS. 02:16 BUT THERE'S ABOUT TO BE ONE LESS TRUMP TOWER BECAUSE THE TRUMP INTERNATIONAL HOTEL IN TORONTO IS REMOVING THE TRUMP NAME. 02:30 NOW, USUALLY... 02:31 THE SURPRISE OF IT, USUALLY TO GET ALL SIGNS OF TRUMP OUT OF YOUR HOTEL, YOU NEED SOME LISOL AND A NEW MATTRESS. 02:38 OR JUST FLIP IT. 02:41 NOW, HERE'S THE DEAL. 02:42 THIS TRUMP TOWER IN TORONTO, TRUMP DIDN'T BUILD THE PROPERTY AND HE DOESN'T OWN IT. 02:46 THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION JUST MANAGED IT AND THEY LICENSE HIS NAME. 02:51 AND SINCE THE PRESIDENT TOOK OFFICE, THE TORONTO TRUMP HOTEL HAS BEEN A SITE FOR PROTESTS AGAINST TRUMP'S COMMENTS DISPARAGING WOMEN, MEXICANS, AND MUSLIMS. 02:59 WOW, I DID NOT KNOW CANADA EVEN HAD PROTESTS. 03:04 I figured that if they were angry about something, they just sent a strongly worded apology. 03:09 Now, that's not the only Trump company in trouble, because there's a major controversy surrounding Ivanka Trump's clothing line. 03:19 Three activists recently went undercover, and these three people discovered that workers making Ivanka's shoes faced overtime that stretched past midnight and crude verbal abuse. 03:31 In other words, the same conditions faced by the White House press pool. 03:36 NOW, THE UNDERCOVER ACTIVISTS, HUGE, HUGE FANS OF VERBAL ABUSE HERE TONIGHT, THANK YOU. 03:42 THE UNDERCOVER ACTIVISTS ALSO WITNESSED A WORKER GETTING INJURED AFTER AN ANGRY MANAGER HAD HIT HIM WITH THE SHARP END OF A HIGH-HEELED SHOE. 03:52 SO IT'S NOT SO MUCH AS A PUMP AS A PUMP. 03:57 THE FOUNDER OF THE ACTIVIST GROUP DESCRIBED THE FACTORY AS AMONG THE WORST HE HAS SEEN IN NEARLY TWO DECADES INVESTIGATING LABOR ABUSES. 04:06 ALL THIS BAD PR IS THE SORT OF THING THAT COULD BANKRUPT IVANKA'S BUSINESSES. 04:11 SO, LIKE FATHER, LIKE DAUGHTER. 04:19 SPEAKING OF CONTROVERSY, DADDY'S LITTLE GIRL. 04:21 SPEAKING OF CONTROVERSY, THERE'S A NEW ONE BREWING OVER AT THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY. 04:28 IT'S ALL CENTERED AROUND THE HEAD OF THE EPA AND VENTRILOQUIST, WHO IS HIS OWN DUMMY, SCOTT PRUID. 04:35 BACK IN MARCH, THE EPA REVERSED A BAN ON A CONTROVERSIAL PESTICIDE CALLED CHLORPYRIPHOS, WHICH IS SURPRISING BECAUSE THE EPA'S OWN SCIENTISTS FOUND INGESTING EVEN MINISCULE AMOUNTS CAN INTERFERE WITH BRAIN DEVELOPMENT. 04:54 IN OTHER WORDS, IT'S THE CHEMICAL EQUIVALENT OF FOX AND FRIENDS. 04:59 SO, WHY, THE QUESTION IS, OBVIOUSLY THE QUESTION IS, 05:04 The five people. 05:06 It's a great show. 05:06 Well-produced. 05:07 Well-produced show. 05:08 I'm a fan. 05:09 So, why did Pruitt overturn the ban? 05:12 Well, we don't really know, but we just learned that right before he made the decision, he met privately with the CEO of Dow Chemical, who makes the pesticide, for a half hour at a Houston hotel. 05:24 And that looks really bad. 05:26 Because there is no convincing way to explain spending time in Houston. 05:32 Because of the humidity. 05:33 They're lovely people. 05:35 What looks even worse is that before this came out, Dow had been lobbying the Trump administration to, quote, set aside the findings of federal scientists. 05:44 And the administration has then done them one better by setting aside science.