Since President Donald Trump's high-profile criticism of Stephen Colbert last week, wherein he called the late-night host a "no-talent guy," Colbert has seemed absolutely delighted at the thought of getting under Trump's skin.
As such, Monday night's show featured Colbert making a direct plea to the president to spare Sean Spicer's job, but not before making a brief detour.
"Donald Trump, if you're watching, first, you're a bad president, please resign. Second of all," Colbert deadpanned, holding for the roar of approval from the crowd, "Please, please please, don't take Sean Spicer from us."
Colbert theorized that Spicer was next on Trump's "to fire" list after the president told Fox News' Jeanine Pirro that Spicer would continue as his press secretary.
"OK, he's firing Sean Spicer," Colbert said.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Colbert had a lot of Trump material Monday night, particularly in the wake of reports that Trump had inappropriately shared highly classified intelligence with Russian officials last week.
"I got good news and I got bad news," Colbert said during his monologue.
"The bad news is, the Washington Post is reporting that Donald Trump revealed highly confidential information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador," Colbert said, to set up his joke.
"The good news is Trump found the leaker."
As though that weren't enough, Colbert also lampooned a graduation speech given by the president at Liberty University over the weekend.
"Then Trump wrapped things up with a graduate-level demonstration of how to pad a speech by rambling about the football schedule with university president Jerry Falwell Jr.," Colbert said before sharing a clip of the president doing just that for nearly a full minute.
