Late-Night Stars Can't Get Enough of Epic Trump-Bannon Feud

On Wednesday, excerpts from Michael Wolff's upcoming tell-all book, "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," were published by New York Magazine and The Guardian.

The book features plenty of bombshells about the Trump administration, but none so scathing as those from former chief strategist, leading to an even nastier response from Trump. And it was all delicious fodder for late-night monologues, so the three hosts wasted no time digging in.

In looking at the battle between Donald Trump and Steve Bannon in the book, Jimmy Kimmel had a question about timing.

"[Bannon] is quoted in a new book accusing Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, of money laundering, accusing Donald Trump Jr. of treason," Kimmel said. "Now you tell us? Thank's a lot!"

The book painted a very unflattering picture of the president, from poison paranoia to the fact that he never wanted to win, but the biggest comments from the book were from Bannon, prompting Trump's official response.

"Steven Bannon has nothing to do with me or my presidency. When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind," Trump wrote.

"The rats are finally eating their young is what's going on here," Kimmel explained of the Trump staffers turning on one another.

"This administration is unlike anything ever," he said. "There are three new scandals every day. The wheels just keep coming off and somehow the bus keeps rolling. I don't know how many wheels there are on this bus!"

After Steve Bannon called out Paul Manafort, Jared Kushner and Donald Trump Jr. for meeting with Russia in Trump Tower prior to the election, he suggested they should have instead done it at "a Holiday Inn in Manchester, New Hampshire," and Colbert pounced on this alternate suggestion.

"So he's basically saying, it was unpatriotic treason; here's how I would have done it," Colbert marveled.

But it was Trump's response to Bannon's attacks that got most of Colbert's attention. He offered some corrections to the president, like when he referred to Bannon as a "staffer who worked for me after I already won the nomination." Colbert clarified, "Yeah, Bannon was just a staffer, or as some people pronounce it, Campaign CEO."

The president even downplayed Bannon's role in his victory, but Colbert agreed with that assessment. "That victory was the selfless uncredited work of one eager young staffer," he said showing a picture of Vladimir Putin wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat.

The Comedy Central host was sitting on the sidelines of this fight between Donald Trump and Steve Bannon, but he was struggling. "As much as I enjoy watching this fight, I realized I don't know who I'm rooting for," he said. "It's like Alien vs. Sexual Predator. Who do you go with?"

He took a special delight in Trump responding, "Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my presidency. When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind."

"I didn't know presidents could release diss tracks," Noah joked after hearing the quote.