Stephen Colbert Has Question for Trump Fans Amid President’s Latest Poll Numbers

Stephen Colbert had a question for Donald Trump supporters on Tuesday night (March 31) amid rapidly decreasing approval ratings for the president. He wanted to know who the “22.4 percent” are who still “strongly approve” of the president.

“The fact that Trump is ruining everything all the time has not helped his popularity,” Colbert said during his opening monologue on Tuesday’s edition of The Late Show. He then pointed to a new poll from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, which showed Trump’s approval rating had dropped to 33 percent.

“One third! That’s only one out of every three people. To put that into perspective, turn to your right. Now turn to your left. Both of those people are more popular than Donald Trump,” the late-night host added. “So they did it. You all did it. That was lovely. Thank you.”

He continued, “Trump’s other poll numbers are also pretty rough. On average, 47.2 percent of Americans strongly disapprove of him, but there are still 22.4 percent who strongly approve of him.”

Colbert then got up close to the camera and asked, “Who are you?!”

The comedian took on the persona of a MAGA die-hard, joking, “Well, I want gas to be expensive, I want the Kennedy Center blowed up, and I know this is a pipe dream, but is there any way, maybe, we could get Denmark to hate us. Because I would just love it if the price of licorice went up too.”

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Elsewhere in his monologue, Colbert touched on reports that Trump is willing to end the conflict in Iran even if it means the Strait of Hormuz remains closed. Administration officials told the Wall Street Journal that a mission to open the oil shipping channel would “push the conflict beyond [Trump’s] timeline of four to six weeks.”

“He’s just walking away from the disaster he created because it’s too complicated,” Colbert said. “It’s a military strategy known as starting a 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle. ‘Ooh, this is fun. No, wait, maybe I hate jigsaw puzzles. Tell you what, I’m just gonna leave this here on the dining table for… three years.”

You can watch Colbert’s full opening monologue in the video above and let us know your thoughts below.