Give Stephen Colbert credit for creativity. In his latest tongue-lashing of President Trump, the late-night comic combined insects and spirituality.
But the naughty language came not on his CBS “The Late Show.” It arose during an on-stage chat with director Michael Moore at his one-man Broadway play “The Terms of My Surrender.”
“As the two men sat in armchairs with a large American flag illuminated in the background, Mr. Moore asked Mr. Colbert at one point, ‘How do you carry on now?’ — a reference to the liberal late-night host’s approach to the Trump presidency,” said The New York Times.
Colbert said: “Trump keeps summoning monsters of abstraction — things that aren’t real — they’re extensions of the ordinary, fears that you have that he plays on.”
Colbert then added: “He wants to brush people into a corner where he can shine his feeble, [f———] anemic firefly of a soul.”
Fireflies have yet to comment, but others did.
I’m old enough to remember when Colbert was funny. His rapid descent into Trump Derangement Syndrome is kind of sad. https://t.co/aAKqF1R5yw
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) October 4, 2017
I’VE NEVER WATCHED HIM ! HE THINKS HE’S FUNNY CUTTING DOWN TRUMP ,BUT HE’S CUTTING HIS OWN THROAT. BOYCOTT COLBERT!!!! TRUMP 2020!
— Patty Wheeler12 (@PattyWheeler12) October 5, 2017
As is @nytimes law, nothing about Colbert being far-left is mentioned in this article, but “conservative ire” is https://t.co/vJ5SXHyY7H
— David Rutz (@DavidRutz) October 5, 2017