Colbert on Trump Rambling About ‘Circumcision:’ ‘Somebody Really Should’ve Cut that D*ck Off’

COLBERT: “Welcome, everybody. Please have a seat. Thank you very much, lovelies, beautiful people. Welcome to ‘The Late Show.’ I’m your host, Stephen Colbert.
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Down in Washington, D.C. today, big day at the White House. Trump held his first cabinet meeting of his second presidency, and everybody was there, RFK Jr.., Pete Hegseth, Sean Duffy, Tulsi Gabbard, Kristi Noem. It was a ‘who’s who’ of ‘why them?’ As commander-in-chief, as commander-in-chief, Trump made it immediately clear who’s in charge: Elon Musk, who explained his job this way.”

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Musk: “Thank you, Mr. President. I actually just call myself the humble tech support here, because this is actually, as crazy as it sounds, that is almost the literal description of the work that the DOGE team is doing.”
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COLBERT: “Well, of course. We’ve all had that call with tech support. ‘Hello? Yes, your computer’s frozen? Uh-huh. Have you tried turning it off and then firing 4,000 people with an email?’ Okay, yeah. Trump talked about all of the stuff DOGE is cutting and all the stuff they’re not cutting, and it got weird.”

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Trump: “We’ve seen that with some of the things that I read in speeches. I read them and people can’t believe when I read them. 20 million here, 30 million here for, you know, a little educational course on something. Circumcision, right? Circumcision.”
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COLBERT: “That long, rambling response actually reminds me of circumcision. Because somebody really should have cut that dickhead off.
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Now, Elon Musk is not a cabinet secretary, but he was in that meeting because he’s in charge of DOGE, we think. You see, in court filings, for reasons that are unclear, the White House has continued to insist that he’s not in charge of DOGE, and the press secretary has on multiple occasions, again, for reasons that are unclear, refused to say who is in charge of DOGE. Until finally, last night, the White House changed course, for reasons that are unclear, and revealed that the acting DOGE administrator is career government official Amy Gleason, seen here saying, ‘Wait, I’m what?’ Why Gleason? We don’t know for sure, because at the time of the announcement, Gleason was on vacation in Mexico. ‘Oh, yeah, don’t worry, we totally have a DOGE administrator and she’s great, but she — she’s in Mexico right now. And you can’t talk to her ’cause her dog ate her phone. And you can’t talk to her dog because the dog speaks only Spanish.’ Reporters did reach out to Gleason, but Gleason declined to comment. I’m not surprised. It is really hard to speak clearly when you are under a bus.”
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