SOTU<\/a> speech at over an hour and 45 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\t\u201cIt was incredibly long,\u201d said Colbert, joking that the speech was so long that Senator Jon Ossoff turned into Jon Voight during the evening.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI didn\u2019t know what to expect. These are always kind of rough with Trump, so just to smooth things out right before the speech, I dropped an edible and strapped in,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m following Michelle Obama\u2019s advice when they go low, we get high.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tHe mocked the official theme of the speech being American at 250 being \u201cstrong, prosperous and respected\u201d. \u201cThough, if you have to say you\u2019re strong, prosperous and respected, it kind of feels like you\u2019re not. It\u2019s like getting an invite to Sheila\u2019s 50th [birthday]. Single, happy and absolutely loving menopause. Is it hot in here? It\u2019s hot in here. Let\u2019s punch a wall.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tOf course, Colbert zeroed in on President Trump\u2019s low job approval rate, showing that he\u2019s at 36% support. He also mocked Trump for bragging about Trump Account for Kids (that he insisted he did not name), kicking 2.4M people off food stamps and the fact that he wanted to give himself the Congressional Medal of Freedom.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThroughout his speech tonight, Trump showed remarkable flexibility for a man his age to toot his own horn,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was a dark speech filled with divisive lies, and it\u2019s unlikely to win him much support with the voters who have grown disenchanted with the chaos and dysfunction of the second administration.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tColbert was joined later in the show by former CBS News anchor John Dickerson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kicking off with a Wicked parody, Stephen Colbert was clearly giddy in his last ever live episode of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,224583,10675],"class_list":{"0":"post-489263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-sotu","10":"tag-the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}