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Colbert Draws Boos as Late-Night TV Skewers Year One of Trump’s Second Term

Hosts cast the anniversary as a test of a nonstop news cycle.

Overview

  • The Late Show audience booed when Stephen Colbert mentioned the one-year mark of President Trump’s return to office, briefly halting his monologue.
  • Colbert marked the date with hyperbole by saying Trump had been in office “exactly 1,000 years” and argued he has monopolized public attention.
  • He recapped what he said were defining controversies, citing a renaming of the Gulf of Mexico, a giant birthday military parade, an order ending birthright citizenship, and demolition of the East Wing.
  • Colbert publicly pressed the administration on the Epstein files, asking where they are and noting he believes the law requires their release.
  • Other hosts, including Jimmy Kimmel, Josh Johnson, Seth Meyers, and Jimmy Fallon, emphasized overload, with Kimmel dubbing Trump “Shark-NATO” and closing with a montage of the president’s own words.