Late-night comics have been going after Donald Trump since he was merely billionaire Donald Trump, and not yet President Trump.
But a parody on Stephen Colbert’s Late Show captured the weirdness of Trump's tumultuous first month in office by invoking the name of a historic movie villain – Keyser Söze.
It happened when Colbert, sporting a fake widow’s peak, inserted himself into the final scene of The Usual Suspects.
undefinedThe 1995 movie’s antagonist is a shadowy crime kingpin who subtly pulls the strings of the criminal underworld. Every criminal knows Keyser Söze, and fears him, even though no one has met him and he may not, technically, exist.
As Colbert’s parody clip starts, an investigator demands information. “Yes, I do know something,” Colbert responds. “And I'm telling you everything. You’re just not listening. I’ve been telling you for like a year. There’s something weird going on between Trump and the Russians.”
Trump and Putin have been swopping praise for more than a year – even when Trump was confronted about some of the Keyser Söze-esque allegations against the Russian president.
Trump said at an interview at a 2015 rally in Cedar Rapids: "I feel, frankly, good about him.
"I think that we can do things with Russia that are to our advantage… It’s a mutual advantage.”