On Tuesday’s (July 22) The Late Show, Colbert noted how Trump is trying to distract from the Epstein story by throwing the heat on former President Barack Obama. “Whenever Trump is backed into a corner, he needs to change the subject and throw red meat to the carnivorous base,” Colbert said. “And their favorite cut is filet of Obama.”

"The word is, and it's a strong word at that, Jimmy Kimmel is NEXT to go in the untalented Late Night Sweepstakes and, shortly thereafter, Fallon will be gone," Trump wrote. The president continued on, slamming Kimmel and Fallon for having "absolutely NO TALENT" and even blamed them for "destroying what used to be GREAT Television."

This is a fraught time to be a political comedian in America. It’s something Stephen Colbert learned when CBS suddenly canceled The Late Show. And it’s something comedian Jena Friedman experienced in an even more visceral way the last time she crossed the border back home to the U.

“The Late Show” host gets very silly while discussing the infighting among Trump supporters

Stephen Colbert weighed in on the conspiracy theories surrounding Jeffrey Epstein on the Wednesday, July 16, episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. To kick off his monologue, he said, “I don’t know what you all are talking about, but everybody I talk to is talking about what Donald Trump doesn’t want to talk about. So let’s talk about it.”

Stephen Colbert returned to “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” on Monday night for the first time since announcing the show would be canceled next spring. With days to process the news and a full monologue to work with,

Stewart admitted that he was “certainly not the most objective to comment on this matter” before sharing his feelings about the end of “The Late Show.”

President Trump scores a big win on Capitol Hill, but at the same time he's trying to quiet a growing controversy over the late financier Jeffrey Epstein. He's now pushing to release grand jury testimony from Epstein's sex trafficking case.