Stephen Colbert says he would’ve struggled with his Colbert Report character in the Trump era

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The Late Show host says his Comedy Central character would “100%” be a Trump supporter. “As a matter of fact, one of the reasons I'm so happy to not do The Colbert Report anymore, even though I loved it, is that Trump is such a similar character to my old character,” he says. “In other words, he's such a poorly-informed, self-important idiot, that it would be very hard for me to leapfrog him…He'd definitely be a fan. He'd be onboard. He'd be MAGA all the way.”

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