Stephen Colbert got here to the protection of an auto employee who referred to as Donald Trump a “pedophile protector,” praising the person for utilizing “exact language.”
Throughout Wednesday’s monologue for “The Late Present,” the comic addressed the controversial second, which noticed the president dropping an f-bomb and flipping the hen after auto employee TJ Sabula shouted the insult throughout Trump’s tour of a Ford plant.
“Apparently, Trump has designated a brand new nationwide hen,” Colbert joked earlier than exhibiting video footage of the viral trade. “That’s a brand new one. The President of the USA publicly f-bombs after which flips someone off. That’s the most crudely hostile response from the chief of our nation since Herbert Hoover’s marketing campaign slogan, ‘I’ll poop in each pot.’”
As Colbert went on, he gave credit score to Sabula for “getting below Trump’s pores and skin like compound butter on a Thanksgiving turkey.”
He added: “And all as a result of he introduced up the Epstein recordsdata, which jogs my memory, the place are the Epstein recordsdata? We had been advised that there can be Epstein recordsdata. The truth is, you signed a legislation mandating that you would need to launch the Epstein recordsdata by the center of final month, however you continue to haven’t. It type of makes you appear to be a, what’s the phrase? ‘Pedophile protector!’”
After reiterating Sabula’s jab, Colbert gave the auto employee “props” for “utilizing exact language” within the insult.
“He may have shouted pedophile, however till the complete Epstein recordsdata are launched, that’s simply an unverified declare,” Colbert added. “Whereas pedophile protector is pretty in proof at this level. And that’s the type of consideration to element you may anticipate in your F-150. There’s a cause their motto is, ‘Ford, unsure if it will ever come up, however for the document, we don’t like pedophiles.’”
Per Colbert, Sabula has been suspended from his job pending an investigation. Although, as Colbert quipped, “Yelling one thing true at Donald Trump isn’t the worst factor that’s occurred at a Ford plant. That may be the Pinto.”
Watch Colbert’s full monologue above.
“The Late Present With Stephen Colbert” airs weeknights at 11:35 p.m. ET on CBS.
