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The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

Angela Bassett | Writing's On The WalMart

The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

CBS

News, Comedy, Comedy Interviews, News Commentary, Tv & Film

4.41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

WalMart is passing the cost of President Trump’s tariffs along to consumers, the president lashed out at celebrities for not supporting him, and “Sesame Street” will now be produced by Netflix. Oscar-winner Angela Bassett raves about some of the fresh new faces in the cast of “Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning,” including her new bestie Hannah Waddingham. The film opens in theaters this Friday. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:32.6

Welcome. Please have a seat, everybody. Welcome. Welcome to The Late Show.

0:40.6

That's exciting. That is nice. Yes, ma'am. Right there. I'm your host Stephen Colbert. I hope you all had a good weekend.

0:49.8

Hope you all had a good weekend. The president spent it settling back in at the White House

0:56.0

after his mid-east All You Can Bribed Buffet.

0:59.0

And, oh man, did you see, he just loved it over there.

1:04.0

He was having such a good time with the princes and the palaces and the marble and the gold

1:09.0

and the special souvenir he really wants to bring home

1:11.7

obedience to leaders on punishment of death because evidently evidently because he spent this

1:19.3

beautiful weekend viciously attacking any who dare defy him including Walmart which recently

1:27.0

and quite reasonably called his tariffs too high

1:30.3

and announced that they will raise prices as a result. Which means, which means, I know,

1:36.5

which means it's going to cost you a lot more when you run out for milk, one good year tire,

1:40.9

and a t-shirt that says, Shrek yourself before you wreck yourself.

1:44.6

All right?

1:46.4

Don't do it.

1:48.4

Be careful.

1:50.4

Trump didn't like Walmart accurately describing how he has personally affected your pocketbook,

1:55.4

so the president posted, Walmart should stop trying to blame tariffs as the reason for raising prices throughout the chain.

2:04.0

They should, as is said, eat the tariffs.

2:08.5

Yes, no, folks.

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