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Best of Late NightTrevor Noah Detects Some Tension Between Trump and France’s PresidentWelcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep – and lets us get paid to watch comedy. If you’re interested in hearing from The Times regularly about great TV, sign up for our Watching newsletter and get recommendations straight to your inbox.’The One Gift That’s Worse Than a Peloton’President Trump was in London on Tuesday, where he had a tense encounter with President Emmanuel Macron of France during a NATO summit meeting. At one point, Trump suggested he could send France some captured ISIS fighters.”And what a turn this relationship has taken. I mean, just last year Trump and Macron were giving each other friendship trees, remember that? And now Trump is offering to send him ISIS.” – TREVOR NOAH”It’s pretty dark that Trump would offer to send ISIS fighters to Macron as a gift, but I guess, on the other hand, we have found the one gift that’s worse than a Peloton.” – TREVOR NOAHTrump also railed against French taxes on American companies like Facebook, saying, “I’m not going to let people take advantage of American companies. If anyone’s going to take advantage of the American companies, it’s going to be us; it’s not going to be France.””That’s right: Nobody beats up my little brother except for me.” – JIMMY KIMMEL”He’s like the world’s worst superhero, you know? He’ll, like, stop a mugger robbing an old lady only so he can fly off with her purse. [imitating Trump] ‘It’s mine!'” – TREVOR NOAH”So, yes, in response to France announcing taxes on American tech companies, Trump is now threatening to tax all the most cliched French goods, like wine, cheese and handbags. Yeah. He was probably also going to tax French fries and mistress