Tim Miller: Obama Accidentally Made the Case for Why Colbert SHOULD Run (Maybe)
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🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Tim Miller reacts to Barack Obama and Stephen Colbert joking about Trump, “Colbert 2028,” Democratic messaging failures, and the corruption Americans have somehow normalized in modern politics.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, Tim over in the bulwark. I was watching some clips of Stephen Colbert and Barack Obama this morning, and I got a laugh out of him. |
| 0:08.2 | So I wanted to share that with you. We all need a little giggle these days. And I think there's also underneath the jokes, some interesting observations about the direction of our politics that's worth meditating on. So let's watch a couple of the clips together. |
| 0:22.6 | And I will give you my thoughts on the other side. |
| 0:25.6 | First up, the one that really tickled my pickle, was Colbert asking the former president, |
| 0:31.6 | what he thought about possibly Colbert 2028? |
| 0:35.6 | Let's watch. |
| 0:36.6 | I'm looking for a new gig soon. |
| 0:38.0 | Uh-huh. |
| 0:38.8 | And a lot of people tell me I should run for president. |
| 0:42.4 | Well, you certainly have the law. |
| 0:43.7 | Thank you very much. |
| 0:44.1 | You have the hair. |
| 0:45.3 | Well, for the record, I think it's a stupid idea. |
| 0:48.2 | How dumb do you think it is for people to say that I should run for president? |
| 0:52.9 | Well, you know, the bar has changed. |
| 0:57.0 | That is true, at times subterranean. |
| 1:01.0 | I don't have to limbo so low. |
| 1:03.0 | They put it this way. |
| 1:05.0 | I think that you could perform significantly better than some folks that we've seen. |
| 1:12.1 | All right. |
| 1:12.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:13.4 | I have great confidence in that. |
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