Stephen Colbert kicked off his show to discuss Grandpa Trump’s TIME magazine cover, which upset the president. ‘The Late Show’ host remarked that the photo is “one of those optical illusions where you can’t tell if it’s an old woman or a young ball sack.”
“The President of the United States is far too busy hammering out the details of a deal to end generational conflict in the Middle East to worry about how he looks on some bi-weekly magazine — you would think,” Colbert said.
Colbert, as always trying to be helpful to Trump, suggested a few AI-generated alternatives for the magazine’s front page, and he also offered a cover featuring a real image of Trump and sex-trafficking pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
“Wait, what’s that pervert doing there?” Colbert continued. “Take the pervert out,” then the photo of Donald was replaced by the Flaming Space Lion.
Colbert spoke about the government shutdown, RFK Jr., the National Guard, and the propaganda video Kristi Noem wants to play at TSA checkpoints.
“It’s been a week since Donald Trump sent National Guard troops to Chicago,” he said. And the optics of the military in American cities is really bad. And Trump is all about optics, which is why his administration got upset about this photo that went viral of the Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago.”
