{"id":440843,"date":"2026-01-27T14:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T14:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/440843\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T14:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T14:15:07","slug":"stephen-colbert-brings-down-the-house-with-2-words-for-trump-admin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/440843\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert Brings Down The House With 2 Words For Trump Admin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLate Show\u201d host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entertainment\/topic\/stephen-colbert\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Stephen Colbert\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69786281e4b03029646a2c87\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"\/entertainment\/topic\/stephen-colbert\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"feed\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stephen Colbert<\/a> on Monday began by thanking his audience for coming to the show despite a winter storm that brought freezing temperatures, snow and ice to New York and a large swath of the nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we can all agree,\u201d Colbert said, then offered up two words that were about more than just winter weather: \u201cFuck ICE.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The audience erupted with cheers. <\/p>\n<p>Colbert devoted his monologue to 37-year-old ICU nurse <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/minneapolis-shooting-victim-alex-pretti_n_6974df75e4b05cbd8924e31b?6h8\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Alex Pretti\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69786281e4b03029646a2c87\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"6974df75e4b05cbd8924e31b\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"buzz\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alex Pretti<\/a>, who was shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday after trying to film them on the streets amid weeks of protests. <\/p>\n<p>The video footage that has emerged contradicts that account. <\/p>\n<p>Colbert summed it up: \u201cMasked government agents disarmed an American citizen and then executed him in the streets. That\u2019s what it looks like.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>See more in his Monday night monologue: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cLate Show\u201d host Stephen Colbert on Monday began by thanking his audience for coming to the show despite&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[227979,64,63,2490,134,63306,3869,32719,427],"class_list":["post-440843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-alex-pretti","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-kristi-noem","tag-stephen-colbert","tag-stephen-miller","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}