{"id":489568,"date":"2026-02-25T12:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T12:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/489568\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T12:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T12:18:08","slug":"stephen-colbert-torches-hakeem-jeffries-for-not-so-bold-sotu-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/489568\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert Torches Hakeem Jeffries For Not-So-Bold SOTU Strategy"},"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=\"699e9a83e4b0c4f8082726fc\" 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> called out House Minority Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/topic\/hakeem-jeffries\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Hakeem Jeffries\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"699e9a83e4b0c4f8082726fc\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"\/topic\/hakeem-jeffries\" 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=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hakeem Jeffries<\/a> (D-N.Y.) for advice he gave members of his caucus on how to handle President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/news\/topic\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Donald Trump\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"699e9a83e4b0c4f8082726fc\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"\/news\/topic\/donald-trump\" 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=\"2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s State of the Union speech on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of Democratic lawmakers skipped the address entirely in protest of the president and his agenda. <\/p>\n<p>But as Colbert noted, Jeffries told those who did attend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ms.now\/news\/silent-defiance-outright-opposition-democrats-confront-trump-state-of-the-union\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"not to make a scene\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"699e9a83e4b0c4f8082726fc\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.ms.now\/news\/silent-defiance-outright-opposition-democrats-confront-trump-state-of-the-union\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">not to make a scene<\/a> during Trump\u2019s speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn approach he dubbed silent defiance,\u201d Colbert said. \u201cWhich I believe is a bold rebrand of doing jack squat. As Martin Luther King once said, \u2018Shhh.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n<p>But not everyone got the message \u2015 or, if they did, they didn\u2019t abide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou should be ashamed,\u201d Omar called. \u201cYou have killed Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>See more in Colbert\u2019s Tuesday night monologue: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cLate Show\u201d host Stephen Colbert called out House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) for advice he gave members&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[12,88,12481,102519,90887,224727,10674,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-489568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-hakeem-jeffries","11":"tag-ilhan-omar","12":"tag-martin-luther-king","13":"tag-rashida-tlaib","14":"tag-stephen-colbert","15":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489568","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=489568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}