The Late Show may be cancelled, but Stephen Colbert is still on the air until May 2026 — and he's not holding back. The host spends the vast majority of the monologue above talking about Donald Trump, who recently gloated about Colbert's cancellation, and the president's past friendship with convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Colbert called it an “insane thing” to put on social media. “If you or I put up an AI video depicting the violent arrest of a former president, we would get a free ride in a windowless van to FBI headquarters, where they would put us to work redacting Trump’s name from the Epstein file,” Colbert said. And that may not even be the worst of it.

Even after learning his show has been cancelled by CBS, Stephen Colbert won’t back down from jokes about President Donald Trump and his apparent connections to Jeffrey Epstein. “A lot of other stuff from Trump’s creepy past is resurfacing,” Colbert said in his Tuesday monologue. “Like this clip of Trump on The Howard Stern Show back in 2006...”

The president’s usual tactic when cornered is to “throw red meat to the carnivorous base — and their favorite cut is filet of Obama,” Stephen Colbert said.

"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."

President Donald Trump is struggling to divert attention from Jeffrey Epstein. The Trump administration released files on Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. An ex-police officer was sentenced in relation to the killing of Breonna Taylor.

Late-night television host Stephen Colbert slammed President Donald Trump’s celebration of the comedian’s CBS show getting canceled, saying that “the gloves are off” until his show is done next year.

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,