Tonight: Stephen tells the President everything journalists, restrained by their dignity, wish they could say. #LSSC pic.twitter.com/FHG4jvF8fv
— The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) May 1, 2017
Stephen Colbert truly did not hold back during his Monday night show, and one gets the sense that he is losing his patience with the President of the United States and the actions the leader of the free world has taken in office. There was of course the conveniently spliced together interview to “celebrate” Trump’s first 100 days in office that served as what a dream interview with the President would probably look like for the longtime late night host. But earlier in his show, Colbert used the monologue to let off steam that seemingly has been building up over the last few months with no suitable outlet. Well, he found his outlet.
Trump sat down with Face the Nation‘s John Dickerson for a recent interview, only to abruptly end things and walk out of the room as soon as a wiretapping question arose, and Colbert wasn’t taking that insult sitting down. In a diatribe aimed directly at the president and spewed as if Trump were really sitting in the room, he didn’t hold back with the ridiculous and downright dirty names. He led off the speech with a promise,
“Donald Trump, John Dickerson is a fair minded journalist and one of the most competent people who will ever walk into your office, and you treat him like that? John Dickerson has way too much dignity to trade insults with the President of the United States to his face. But I sir, am no John Dickerson.”
The audience went absolute nuts at that point in the proclamation, but he pushed through the cheers and continued,
Let me introduce you to something we call The Tiffany Way! When you insult one member of the CBS family, you insult us all. Bazinga!
The rest of the the monologue was so good we can forgive him one cheesy Big Bang Theory reference. Colbert went on to call Trump “Gorge Washington,” the “POTUS with the Bloatus,” a “Presidunce” that is becoming a “real Pricktator.”
His insults only got more colorful from there though and the audience absolutely ate it up. From saying Trump “attracts more skinheads than free rogaine” to “your presidential library is going to be a kids menu and a couple of Jugs magazines,” the speech was more pointed and hilarious than many Comedy Central roasts in recent memory. The piece de resistance though, was the one that pretty much pushed the audience over the edge: “the only thing your mouth is good at is being Vladimir Putin’s c*ck holster.”
Well then, that’s settled isn’t it! Trump probably won’t be stopping by Colbert’s show anytime soon, even if Colbert suddenly decided to invite him back at this point in his presidency. Those fake interviews will just have to continue!
