Late Night Laughs: Around the White House

President Trump is being criticized now for allowing his daughter Ivanka to sit in for him at the G-20 summit. At a press conference today, the White House press secretary’s 8-year- old daughter said, “It’s no big deal.” — Conan O’Brien

President Donald Trump flew to Germany to meet with other world leaders for the G-20 summit. They had trouble booking a hotel room because they waited so long to do it, which is funny for a guy who owns a dozen hotels. — Jimmy Kimmel

The president wasn’t alone at the G-20 summit. … At one point Ivanka sat in for Donald Trump at a meeting with world leaders. Of course Twitter went nuts, and that’s the only thing he reads, so he got very defensive. This morning, he wrote, “If Chelsea Clinton held the seat for her mother, the Fake News would say ‘Chelsea for Prez’” — which is stupid, because if Hillary Clinton was president she wouldn’t let ANYONE sit in that seat. If Hillary had to go to the bathroom, she would literally have picked up the chair and carried it with her into the stall. — Jimmy Kimmel

He’s got a point, I do think people are overreacting. She just held his seat. I don’t remember people complaining when President Obama let Sasha give the order to kill bin Laden, do you? — Jimmy Kimmel

Last night, I told you about how Don Jr. met with a Russian lawyer, who claimed to have dirt on Hillary Clinton. Seems pretty bad. But it turned out much worse. Then, The New York Times reported that “Trump Jr. was told in an email that this was a Russian effort to aid Trump’s campaign.” Wow. Who could have predicted an email scandal would taint a presidential campaign? — Stephen Colbert

Don Jr.’s emails were with British music publicist Rob Goldstone. He met the Trumps at the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow. I believe his job was to remove all the locks from the dressing room doors. — Stephen Colbert

White House chief of staff Reince Priebus has dismissed the latest Trump-Russia story as “a nothing burger.” When questioned about his really strange choice of words, he explained, “My name is Reince Priebus.” — Conan O’Brien

This morning [President Trump] tweeted just out of the blue, “The White House is functioning perfectly, focused on health care, tax cuts, reform and many other things. I have very little time for watching TV.” Why would he specifically mention that he doesn’t have time for TV? I think I know why. Yesterday there was a report that he was holed up all day watching TV while the whole thing with his son was going on. I bet he saw that on TV. — Jimmy Kimmel

And meanwhile, of course, the White House defending Don Jr. One official said, “He just wants to hunt, fish and run his family’s real estate business.” Yes, why did we force him to get into politics? — Stephen Colbert

Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan is calling for stronger sanctions against Russia for its election meddling. Ryan said, “We must keep Russia out of our elections until we need them again in 2018.” — Conan O’Brien

The new Republican health- care bill is out, and the bad news is, older people still pay more than younger people. Of course the good news is, they don’t pay more for long. — Conan O’Brien