{"id":485566,"date":"2026-02-19T15:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/485566\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T15:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:27:10","slug":"stephen-colbert-audience-has-loud-answer-to-question-about-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/485566\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert Audience Has Loud Answer To Question About Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cLate Show\u201d host Stephen Colbert<\/a> on Wednesday night said the latest polls are bad news for President Donald Trump<\/a>. <\/p>\n

And not just because of his plunging<\/a> approval rating. <\/p>\n

Colbert highlighted some of the other questions on an Economist\/YouGov survey<\/a> and found, for example, that 47% of respondents said the president is a racist.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot a great sign that it seems reasonable to include that question in the poll,\u201d Colbert said. \u201cIt\u2019s like if a wedding invitation said \u2018chicken, fish, or do you think Donald Trump is a racist?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump is facing renewed accusations of racism after his Truth Social<\/a> account posted a video<\/a> depicting former President Barack Obama<\/a> and former first lady Michelle Obama<\/a> as a chimpanzee and a gorilla. <\/p>\n

Trump later blamed \u201csomebody else\u201d on his staff for posting it. However, when asked about another message this week, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt<\/a> said posts on Trump\u2019s Truth Social page are \u201cdirectly from President Trump<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

That wasn\u2019t the only bad news Colbert found in the poll. <\/p>\n

He pointed out that in addition to the 47% who view Trump as racist, \u201c49% say he\u2019s corrupt, 46% say he\u2019s cruel, and 50% say he\u2019s dangerous.\u201d <\/p>\n

Colbert jokingly added: \u201cUnfortunately, the other 50% say ladies love a bad boy.\u201d <\/p>\n

The audience laughed… at first. But there were also some groans, which led Colbert to conduct an informal poll of his own. <\/p>\n

\u201cDo you, ladies? Do you love a bad boy?\u201d he asked. <\/p>\n

The reaction was immediate. <\/p>\n

\u201cNo!\u201d women in the audience shouted back. <\/p>\n

Check it out in Wednesday night\u2019s \u201cLate Show\u201d monologue: <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cLate Show\u201d host Stephen Colbert on Wednesday night said the latest polls are bad news for President Donald…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1780,49,48,1376,75,25879,26169,3668,348],"class_list":{"0":"post-485566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-barack-obama","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-karoline-leavitt","14":"tag-michelle-obama","15":"tag-stephen-colbert","16":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}