Late night television host Stephen Colbert, clad in all black, broke into tears briefly before recomposing himself during a monologue on Thursday night as he reacted to US President Donald Trump’s election comments from the White House.
"The President came out into the White House briefing room and lied for 15 minutes, just nonsensical stuff about illegal vote dumps and corrupt election officials and secret democratic counting cabals, and I don't know, longform birth certificates, probably. It's all the same" he said in a video for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. "And if you did not know that Joe Biden was getting close to 270, Donald Trump just provided all the proof you will ever need."
The host then went on to explain why he chose to wear all black, in that he knew that the President would likely make statements in regards to the election in which he trails Biden. "I'm no prophet, it's just that he's so predictable," said Colbert.
"So we all knew he would do this. What I didn't know is that it would hurt so much. I didn't expect this to break my heart. For him to cast a dark shadow on our most sacred right from the briefing room in the White House — our house, not his — that is devastating,” he said before tearing up.
"He is the President of the United States," he added. "That office means something, and that office should have some shred of decency."
Colbert suggested that other politicians also needed to step up and reject what Trump had to say.
“For all the predictable behaviour of the last few days and the last four years, right now something unpredictable needs to happen,” Colbert added. “Republicans have to speak up. All of them.”
