With the amount of time former President Barack Obama is spending on the midterm campaign trail this week, “The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert couldn’t help but compare the 44th president’s appearance on Monday to Donald Trump.
“The midterm is a week from tomorrow, and the race is getting tighter. So the Democrats have unleashed their secret weapon: Barack Obama,” Colbert began. “He spent the weekend at rallies for his party, and some women in Michigan were in it.”
Colbert then played an MSNBC clip of Obama’s speech from a rally in Michigan, where some of the women in the audience responded to his confession that he had gray hair since he first began campaigning for president. are gone.
“I have to admit that sometimes going the campaign route feels a little harder than it used to be, and not just because I’m older and older,” Obama said, calling on the women behind him. He expressed aloud how he was “still good” before being interrupted by chatter. The audience laughed.
“I’m not going to tell Michelle that you said that,” Obama said after a brief pause. “Though Michelle agrees.”
This is where Colbert was compared to Trump.
The late night host commented, “I want to point out that the 45th president will never have two things: a crowd screaming how hot he is and a wife who agrees.”
Colbert also referred to Obama’s remarks on Republican Senate nominee Herschelle Walker, with a photo of Walker displayed during her segment, mentioning her association with various abortion scandals.
“Obama even spoke in Georgia, where he went after Republican Senate candidate Herschelle Walker, seen here in a stadium full of his secret children,” Colbert joked.
Obama made the case against Walker’s campaign for the Georgia Senate seat.
“In college, he was amazing—one of the best running backs ever. But here’s the question: Does that make him the best person to represent you in the U.S. Senate? Obama poses.”
In response, the crowd raised an alarm.
“Well, the opposite is also true. Like, you might have liked me as president, but you wouldn’t want me to start with a tailback for the dogs,” Obama said.
“Respectfully, sir, you would be terrible in any position, especially at quarterback,” Colbert said, following mixed words in the quarterback play call with the effect of Obama’s public speech pattern, which should have been a rapid process. Must slow it down.
Watch Colbert’s full “Late Show” monologue in the video above.
