Stephen Colbert Explains Why Trump Indictment Is Actually Good for Trump

On Thursday night, Stephen Colbert did the unthinkable: He said Donald Trump’s name. Since November 2020, the Late Night host has mostly refused to utter the former president’s name, and instead referred to him by a colorful array of nicknames, including Scooby Coup and Old Wack Donald.

But Thursday night was different because, as the host explained during his monologue, “literally three minutes before I walked out on this stage here, The New York Times reported a New York grand jury voted to indict former president Donald J. Trump.”

While Colbert admitted that he wasn’t sure this day would ever come, he also told viewers that he “didn’t know it would feel this good.” And while the former president probably isn’t digesting the news with a mouthful of Reddi-wip straight from the can, the way that Colbert did, the host only sees an upside to this latest development—including for Trump himself.

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