Sen. John Kennedy didn’t hold back after former President Barack Obama sat down with late-night host Stephen Colbert for what many conservatives saw as yet another Hollywood-style anti-Trump therapy session disguised as an interview.
During an appearance on “The Will Cain Show,” Kennedy mocked the overly friendly exchange between Obama and Colbert, joking that the two “best buds” should probably “get a motel room” after spending the interview fawning over each other.
Obama appeared on Colbert’s show at his new Presidential Center in Chicago ahead of the comedian’s program ending in mid-May. During the conversation, Obama took veiled shots at President Donald Trump, praised socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and even suggested Colbert would make a better president than Trump.
Because apparently Democrats now think late-night comedians reading monologues from cue cards are presidential material. Somewhere in America, taxpayers collectively rolled their eyes.
“It’s no news flash that President Obama does not like Republicans,” Kennedy said. “It occurred to me that he might have been pandering to Mr. Colbert and his audience, all seven of them. President Obama has always been better at pandering than persuasion.”
Kennedy then turned his attention directly toward Colbert himself.
“He and President Obama are obviously best buds. Maybe they ought to get a motel room or something. They were just fawning all over each other,” Kennedy joked.
The Louisiana senator added that he has “always thought that [Colbert] was shallow as a puddle,” while sarcastically noting that the host believes he’s “one of the smartest people on the planet.”
“If you don’t take my word for it, ask him,” Kennedy added.
But Kennedy saved some of his sharpest criticism for Colbert’s collapsing ratings and the cancellation of his CBS show, which is set to air its final episode on May 16.
“His problem is not his vanity or his intelligence, it’s his numbers,” Kennedy said. “He was losing CBS $40 million a year because nobody was watching. So CBS told him to sit his 50-cent a-- down, and they said, ‘You’re fired.’”
CBS previously announced the cancellation of Colbert’s show, citing financial reasons. Still, Colbert recently hinted that politics may have played a role, despite admitting there’s no definitive evidence supporting that theory.
In other words, when ratings tank and viewers disappear, blaming politics suddenly becomes easier than admitting Americans are simply tired of being lectured every night by out-of-touch celebrities and political elites.
Meanwhile, conservatives continue gaining momentum with voters who are far more interested in real-world issues like the economy, border security, and public safety than another scripted anti-Trump comedy routine from late-night television.