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The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

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

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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America's intelligence chiefs are seeking a more engaging way to brief the president, the head of FEMA is cracking jokes about hurricane season, FBI Director Kash Patel probably looks bigger in person, and Tinder has a new minimum height setting. New Zealand's former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern argues that a good leader can wear their heart on their sleeve and connect to constituents on an emotional level. Stick around for more with the former prime minister and check out her memoir, "A Different Kind of Power," available now. 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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0:32.6	Have a seat, my friends. All you lovelies, welcome to The Late Show.
0:38.5	I'm your host, Stephen Colbert.
0:40.2	Before we begin, ladies a gentleman, before we begin,
0:45.1	I want to warn any of our more sensitive viewers, children, pregnant, or breastfeeding mothers,
0:50.9	that I am about to show you a picture of Donald Trump's face.
0:56.1	Here's the deal, because yesterday the White House dropped the president's new official portrait.
1:01.7	Now, you might remember, he already had an official portrait, which I believe was released on his
1:06.4	inauguration, and that photo can only be described as body in the morgue that just stood up.
1:13.6	So to compare, to compare, this was the old one and here's the new one.
1:21.6	Oh my God! It's getting closer. The new portrait is notable because it doesn't feature the American flag,
1:30.9	which has appeared in every official presidential photograph since Gerald Ford's in 1974.
1:36.9	They had to remove it from the new portrait ever since the flag filed that restraining order.
1:43.9	Yeah. Yeah. order. Yeah.
1:45.2	Yeah.
1:46.1	Yeah.
1:50.4	Flagworth.
1:52.9	The new picture will replace the official photographs of Trump
1:56.4	that have already been hung in federal buildings and offices.
1:59.9	The old pictures will not be thrown away.
2:02.0	They will be used from now on to scare horses.
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