“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert went after President Donald Trump on Thursday, the same day it was announced that his show had been canceled.
And he focused on two issues the president does not like to talk about: his health, and his links to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“I want to be sensitive about this,” Colbert said on that first topic. “His skin seems to be falling off.”
In one recent appearance, Trump had makeup on his hand, apparently covering up a bruise.
The White House said the bruise is because he’s “a man of the people” and is “shaking hands all day, every day” as well as due to aspirin use.
Colbert showed a picture of Trump’s makeup-covered hand.
“That’s more than concealer,” he said. “That’s fondant. Is his makeup artist the Cake Boss?”
But the health talk might be serving as a distraction from another issue haunting the president.
“I’m sure Trump would rather have us talk about his hand than Jeffrey Epstein,” Colbert pointed out. “That controversy is causing so much trouble for Trump that he recently ordered it to be put in a cell and for the cameras to stop working for three minutes.”
That’s a reference to the nearly three minutes missing from the surveillance footage near Epstein’s prison cell the night he was found dead.
Colbert did not address his show’s cancellation during the monologue, but did so at another point in the broadcast. While CBS said the decision was “purely” financial, many have speculated that it was in reality because of his jokes about the president as well as his attacks on CBS parent Paramount for agreeing to pay $16 million to settle a lawsuit with Trump that many consider frivolous.
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That settlement came amid a pending merger between Paramount and Skydance Media ― one that needs approval from the FCC.
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