Stephen Colbert Praises CBS Over ‘Insane’ Trump Video & Reacts to George Santos’ Release
Stephen Colbert credited CBS on Monday’s (October 20) edition of The Late Show for allowing him to show footage of a “disturbing” AI video President Donald Trump shared on social media over the weekend.
Late Saturday night (October 18), Trump took to Truth Social, where he posted an AI-generated video of himself wearing a crown and flying a fighter jet over the No Kings protests, dumping large amounts of excrement on the crowds below. Kenny Loggins’ hit track “Danger Zone” played over the clip.
“There it is: King Trump crapping on America,” Colbert said after playing the uncensored video. “Which is insane, though I will grant, factually accurate.”
The late-night host continued, “I want to take a second here to thank CBS for letting us show that video on television because some networks are not showing that video because it’s so disturbing. There’s rational reasons to not show that video, but I think we’re way beyond rationality at this point.”
“So thank you, CBS. Thank you,” Colbert added.
In July, CBS announced it was canceling The Late Show, with its final episode set to air in May 2026. CBS and its parent company, Paramount, have said only financial circumstances contributed to the decision; however, some critics believe the show was axed due to Colbert’s criticism of Trump and his administration.
Colbert went on to say there were “So many disturbing things about this video. Number one, the number two, second… eat a vegetable, baby!”
“This video was vile and violent and only proves the point of the No Kings march even more,” he added. “What decent democratic leader would ever post a video of themselves s****ing on peaceful protesters? He is a one-man hate march.”
Elsewhere in his monologue, Colbert slammed Trump’s decision to free former Representative George Santos. “Last year, the former congressman pleaded guilty to multiple counts of wire fraud and identity theft and was sentenced to seven years in prison,” the host reminded his viewers.
“But, defying all logic, king, not a king [Trump], arbitrarily commuted Santos’ sentence and released him from prison after he served just 84 days,” Colbert continued, “making Santos just the next pile of crap Trump is dropping on New York.”
You can watch Colbert’s full opening monologue in the video above and let us know your thoughts below.
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Weeknights, 11:35/10:35c, CBS
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Well, I agree with Stephen, the videos only show poor Donald has the Hot Squirts not Shots..
Free Speech is for everyone, not just for Fruit Loops DT.
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Well Mr President must be full of it to deposit it over peaceful protestors, doesn't the video post show a delusional disorder?
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These are the Same people who bellyached and whined and peed and moaned about the Military Parade to Honor our Military. Most sane and reasonable Americans were either at or watching from home good old American College Football and could care less about a Neurotic so called No Kings day. All it was was for Lunatic Losers to congregate to do more peeing and moaning and bellyaching. What they Need and Should be Loudly Bellyaching about is the Liberal Dem Party lead by Chuck Schumer “ The Tumor” Shutting Our Govt. down and Demanding $200 BILLION in FREE Healthcare for all the Illegal Immigrants that Biden and the AutoPen Group President ALLOWED into our country !! Now That would be a good thing to complain very loudly about !!
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When I first saw the video online playing silently, I laughed. When I saw it again on Stephen Colbert with the score of "Danger Zone", I laughed again. Not because I agree with "Trump" doing what he's doing but because of the absurdity of it all! And Colbert commenting on it was the icing on the cake, that's for sure!
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It’s So rich that Colbert “ Mister I Love Dancing With Schumer” would be so Hypocritical to call the video “ disturbing” and “insane” Lol !! Talk about a Hypocrite !! Colbert should be shown in the dictionary as epitome of hypocrisy !! Him and his loony lib pals are So mad they didn’t think of something like it. But for the Libs out there Never Fear in Usual Form I’m sure Colbert, Kimmel, SNL etc. will come out with something just brimming with Hate as they Usually do. THEIR followers call it comedy. 🙄
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I don't trust Trump because how can anyone trust someone who does not say sorry when he makes mistakes, just blames and fires everyone else.
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Liberal Dems do that ALL the time. Even Now trying to wrongly blame the GOP for the govt. shutdown. So if you Live by the standards you stated in you’re comment you should have a Very tough time trusting Democrats. You should have seen Speaker Johnson lay out Fact by Fact how the Dems are holding our govt. hostage in order to get what They want. It’s absolutely outrageous what the Dems are doing and America is suffering and in a very dangerous place because of them.l
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