Stephen Colbert on trying to come up with fresh Trump jokes: "Sometimes there’s still meat left on that chicken"

The New York Times

"Trump consumes the news cycle, and our mandate, as we’ve established for ourselves, is that I want to inform the audience of my opinion about what they’ve been thinking about all day," Colbert says in a New York Times Magazine interview. "So if the news has been Orange Thanos, then I’m not going to change that. I’m going to do my best to stand in the teeth of that particular [expletive] hurricane and make jokes about how we’re all being lied to. For my own heart’s ease, I’m not going to pretend that Trump is not lying to me. The alternative is to stick your head in the sand."