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Obama Makes Sly Dig at Trump Over Potential Stephen Colbert 2028 Run
May 6, 2026
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CBSFormer President Barack Obama implied that late-night host Stephen Colbert would make a better president than the current one.Colbert interviewed Obama on Tuesday, perhaps for the final time on his show. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is officially ending on May 21. While Obama didn’t mention Trump by name, the 64-year-old made his intentions fairly clear.Obama previously appeared three times on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, and twice before on The Late Show.
In his Tuesday night interview, Colbert interviewed him in the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, a library that Trump has called a “disaster.”Read more at The Daily Beast.
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