CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will not survive to see the conclusion of the 2028 Democratic Primary, but that isn’t stopping Colbert from using his remaining few months to help kick-start the process. On Tuesday, Colbert welcomed California Gov. Gavin Newsom, whom he praised for “being interesting,” for three segments and joined in fearmongering that there might not even be a free and fair 2028 election.
Colbert began by praising Newsom’s meme game, “You've got this new communication strategy or, at least, new for a Democrat. It's called, I hope I'm pronouncing this correctly, 'Being interesting' and when did it occur to you? When did the lightning bulb go over your head that perhaps you should do something that was kind of funny and make a point? Where did this strategy come from? Because let's give the people an idea.”
After Colbert showed some examples of Newsom’s office tweeting in a Trumpian manner, Newsom declared, “The strategy is inspiration-desperation, right, the two driving forces in life, and everything we were trying to do to break through wasn't working anymore, and so we decided to do something, you're right, to your point, novel, called humor. And, I've got to say, oftentimes Democrats, we're a little, you know, just, we don't—we're not as humorous as we should be… So we thought we'd have some fun with it, but I never imagined it would break through like it has and get under the skin of the president of the United States and some of my friends.”
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