Stephen colbert tonight, trump tackles the n. F. L. Plus stephen welcomes sterling k. Brown and chance the rapper, featuring jon batiste and stay human. And now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert cheers and applause band playing captioning sponsored by cbs stephen hey thank you very much cheers and applause hey ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much welcome to the late show. Im your host Stephen Colbert. House of your weekend . Was it okay . cheers and applause heres mine okay, i watched the news and then, to cheer up, i watched ken burns vietnam. Jon wow. Stephen slightly less divisive time in our nations history. Because everyone is talking about donald trump and the n. F. L. Are you ready for some racial tension . cheering for the last year, some players have been kneeling during the National Anthem to protest institutional racism. It started with then49ers quarterback colin kaepernick. It was a controversial protest. After all, the singing of the National Anthem is a sacred time when redblooded americans stand up, and run to the bathroom because thats when the line is shortest. laughter okay. Maybe get some pretzel knots or something. cheers and applause piano riff well, on friday, trump addressed the football controversy. Wouldnt you love to see one of these n. F. L. Owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say get that son of a bitch off the field right now, out, hes fired . Fired stephen wow. audience reacts son of a bitch. That was unnecessary roughness. There should be a flag on that play. Im going to say a confederate flag. Ug cheers and applause piano riff the blowback was immediate. Colin kaepernicks mom, who, after seeing the president of Thunited States call her child a son of a bitch, tweeted, guess that makes me one proud bitch. cheers and applause stephen wow yeah ms yeah moms colins mom is the coolest mom in sports after that, she took the whole team to dairy queen and made it rain orange slices whoo laughter piano riff plus, 28 nfl teams released statements supporting the players, and yesterday the protests went from fewer than 10 players, total, to in excess of 250. cheers and applause 250. Great news for anyone in a fantasy Racial Justice league. laughter there were all kinds of demonstrations players standing in solidarity with their teammates, sitting, kneeling and locking arms with oldtimey carnival barkers. laughter trump actually approved of that last one, tweeting, great solidarity for our National Anthem and for our country. Standing with locked arms is good, kneeling is not acceptable. Bad ratings laughter first of all, locking arms doesnt mean theyre on your site and, second, ratings arent the only end karat of importance. I hear nobody tuned in for the revolutionary war. laughter of course, their ad campaign was one guy on a horse. Jon you. Stephen not good marketing. Jon terrible marketing. Stephen and today, donald trump was still tweeting. The issue of kneeling has nothing to do with race. Wrong. Kneeling during the National Anthem has everything to do with race. Just like your presidency. Life life cheers and applause jon hey mae stephen those players are protesting racial injust. Theyre not protesting the american flag. Saying that kneeling is a protest against the flag is like saying gandhis hunger strikes were a protest against midday snacks. laughter you do realize that civil rights activists werent sitting in at the lunch counters for better grilled cheese. laughter trump continued it is about respect for our country, flag and National Anthem. N. F. L. Must respect this yes, there are rules when it comes to the flag. There are actually written rules. For instance, dont use it to sell merchandise, like this trump pence tshirt, only 35. Also, dont hug it. Thats just weird. laughter applause jon hey stephen and it didnt look consensual, frankly. Ask. Youve got to ask the flag. cheers and applause piano riff never stopped em in the past. Yesterday morning, the sundays shows were blitzed by trumps defenders like treasury secretary steve mnuchin. Its not about race, its not about free speech. They can do free speech on their own time. stephen mimicking stephen i actually find it upsetting how easy it is for me to do an impression of him. laughter its not good. Got to moisturize. laughter you can do free speech on your own time, okay . Jon right. Stephen the constitutions not an allthetime thing youve got to read the fine print on the bill of rights. Some restrictions may apply. Available only at participating long john silvers. laughter applause piano riff trump also complained that the football isnt violent enough. Today, if you hit too hard, if they hit too hard, 15 yards, throw him out of the game. They have that last week. I watched for a couple of minutes and two guys just really beautiful tackle. Boom. 15 yards. They are ruining the game right . Theyre are ruining the game. Stephen theres nothing wrong with brain damage. Look how far i got. cheers and applause jon oh stephen hello, everybody. cheers and applause jon hey stephen he trumped on. And you know what, the n. F. L. Ratings are down, massively. Massively. The n. F. L. Ratings are down massively. Now, the number one reason happens to be that they like watching whats happening on you know, with yours truly. Stephen did you catch that . Hes saying that football ratings are down because fans would rather watch donald trump. laughter audience reacts thats like an inverted tom brady, trump is trying to inflate his own balls. laughter jon oh, hoho laughter applause piano riff stephen of course, there is one sport trump stillans. Ey wont put up with disrespecting our country or our flag. They said it loud and clear what hes referring to is some nascar owners threatened to fire any drivers who kneel during the National Anthem. I dont know why nascar is responding differently than the n. F. L. Maybe because theres only one African American driver in. Scar and im surprised he can get around the track without being laught ver. applause wo jon oh, my goodness around whoo pull over, son. Im so sorry. Stephen reasons and registration, please. Sir, do you know how fast you were going . laughter also, whats up with your tail lights . Theyre just decals for monster energy. Please get out of the car. I know the door is welded shut. Please get out of the car. laughter piano riff but believe it or not, t twiwa. Fhethth n a while back, trump invited the n. B. A. Champions Golden State Warriors to visit the white house. But warriors superstar Stephen Curry was hedging on the invitation. I dont want to go. Thats really it. cheers and applause stephen of course he doesnt want to go. Hes already been to the white house. cheers and applause he even got to do cool science when he heard this, trump immediately responded. Going to the white house is considered a great honor for a championship team. Stephen curry is hesitating, therefore invitation is withdrawn you dont want to go to prom with me . Well, guess what . Prom is canceled because its stupid, and i didnt want to go to begin with, and im not crying, youre crying. laughter okay . Huhuh. No, huhuh. Look. piano riff but, in this instance, trump is messing with forces he doesnt understand. Lebron james, who tweeted, u bum stephencurry30 already said he aint going so therefore aint no invite. Going to white house was a great honor until you showed up ohhhhhhh cheers and applause jon oh stephen oh jon oh, oh, oh stephen oh, no oh, no oh oh, no oh goodness i think we have a visual approximation of that tweet. Yeah. cheers and applause but maybe the sickest burn came from Chicago Bulls center robin lopez. Its ok warriors, in a few months realdonaldtrump probably wont be able to visit the white house either. cheers and applause piano riff stephen wow jon whoo stephen its official. Donald trump is now going to get fewer visits from basketball players than kim jong un. laughter weve got a great show for you tonight. Chance the rapper is going to perform a brand new, neverbeforeheard or releasedsong for us. But when we come back, little rocket man cheers and applause band playing endless shrimp is here with flavors youll love. Like new savory grilled mediterranean shrimp. 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Jon batiste and ban stay human everybody cheers and applause jon, speak of the band, chance the rapper is going to be here and hes going to do a neverbefore released neverheard original song with Daniel Caesar out here, and i have a feeling this audience is really going to love it. Yeah. cheers and applause stephen before we start, i just want to give our audience and our elected officials a friendly and patriotic reminder that everyone in puerto rico is an american citizen who needs our help just as much as the people in texas and florida. cheers and applause jon thats right. Stephen 100 of that island is without power right now. Hospitals are close to collapsing. They say it could take 30 years to repair the damage. Could take six months to get the power back on. So go to colbertlateshow. Com for information on where you can donate. In lighter news we may be headed to thermonuclear war. In fact, today their foreign minister claimed that the United States had for all intents and purposes declared war and that north korea might start shooting down our planes. Heres how we got here. On november 8th, donald trump was elected. Twitter, twitter, twitter, fox and friends. See, the president has been exchanging insults with north korean dictator and man who, i assume, had his barber executed, kim jong un. laughter now, hes a terrible person, kim jong un. First, trump called kim rocket man, so the north korean called our president a dotard. Heres the thing senior aides to President Trump repeatedly warned him not to deliver a personal attack on north koreas leader. You fools you know if you tell him to do something, hes going to do the exact opposite. laughter hes the worlds most powerful toddler. laughter applause piano riff thats why the Nuclear Button has a child safety cap. laughter aides warned trump that the c. I. A. s psychological profile of kim says he has a massive ego and reacts harshly and sometimes lethally to insults and perceived slights. Apparently, the c. I. A. Knows what its talking about because on saturday north koreas foreign minister told the u. N. That trump had made an irreversible mistake, of making our rockets visiting the entire u. S. Mainland inevitable. Okay, kinda scary but, on the bright side, inevitable doesnt always mean its going to happen. Ask hillary clinton. audience reacts what . You think im happy about that . laughter so, faced with the threat of Nuclear Missiles aimed at the u. S. Ainland by a madman, donald trump took immediate steps to deescalate. Just kidding, he tweeted just heard foreign minister of north korea speak at u. N. If he echoes thoughts of little rocket man, they wont be around much longer folks, that is a serious insult. Little rocket man is what trump calls hispeepenis. 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Stephen thank you very much youre killing it all over the place. I appreciate that. Stephen before we get into anything else, i just want to say how much i admired your portrayal of Christopher Darden in the o. J. Story. Thank you. Stephen it was incredible. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. It was a great time. Stephen i saw you on this is us, i said, thats the same guy. The hair helps, the lack of, and the big ugly beard. Stephen what an amazing bursting on the scene youve had in your 40s. Are you happy to have gotten famous later on in your career . I think so. If you get it young, i dont think you have the appreciation for the moment thats happening now. Stephen this is us returns tomorrow. Thats correct cheers and applause stephen okay. Marshall is opening october 13. October 13. Stephen and you just won the emmy this past sunday beating kevin spacey and anthony hopkins. Are you still float ago little bit . A little bit. When you look at the company, we had seven people in our category, which is the most out of any of the acting categories. To be the knight, pretty cool. Sir anthony, hannibal lector and sir kyesly were in the house. laughter i never envisioned this moment would ever happen and now that its happening it just feels so sweet, man, it really does. cheers and applause is that one of the things people are talking about here is you gave a beautiful acceptance speech but did not have an opportunity to finish all of it because you got played off. I did. Stephen and then they cut your light and your mic. They did. Stephen and you got a chance to finish backstage. I got to finish backstage. Stephen and printed the entire thing. Sure. Stephen i wanted you to know that im backstage watching and im, like, theyre not going to play him off, theyre going to let him finish the speech, then i said theyre going to play him off, then i went, wait im the host ive got to stop this. If you look at the wide shot, theres a little white guy coming on to the stage. laughter right when they cut off your mic and you walked away. Im sorry for not getting out their faster because listen, not everyone can be industrialman white men who have won oscars in the past. laughter not that im blaming her. Its not her fault. Youve got to go to commercial break. I got a chance to make the speech longer because i got to finish it backstage. It was perfect. Stephen congratulations. Thank you. applause stephen well deserved. Thank you very much. Stephen now, you got an adorable family right here. Tell me whos in this picture right here. That is my beautiful wife and my two sons andrew and amari. cheers and applause stephen you and your wife, i understand you have been sweethearts since college. We have, off and on. Met freshman year in college. Dated in college, broke up. Dated in grad sc broke up. Theen whoe have been togetholere 2004. Stephen wow, thats beautiful. Thats great. applause thank you. Stephen your kids or your wife, are they impressed with the fame or are they, like, why arent you home . More the latter than the former. My wife understands whats going on. My 6yearold just wants me to be there with him. He likes to do the booty dance where he dayscally just gets up and shakes his booty cheers and applause hell start moving it around, et cetera, et cetera. But every once in a while the booty dance gets old. I need fresh material on a nightly basis. I say, andrew, lets play it out. My name is sterling brown, i won an emmy, and i won another twhun year and thats cool. This is what he does. Stephen wow. Good for him. And its funny. Stephen yeah. They play that cute card, as long as it works, i dont get mad. Stephen the new season this is us starts tomorrow. Yes. Stephen should i go to costco and buy the kleenex in bull income. You will get a big clue as to how jack died. So we find