Since then, Colbert has been ripping into Donald Trump with renewed relish, often while also flaying CBS and its parent company, Paramount. By doubling down on attacking his most powerful enemy, at a time when network execs are facing such intense scrutiny for what many believe was a politically motivated firing,

“Luminarieses,” Colbert repeated as the audience laughed. “Somebody’s ‘brain power’ is in low battery mode.” He rolled a clip of Trump complaining about the term “artificial intelligence” because “I don’t like anything that’s artificial.” Given the president’s famous love of fast food and Diet Coke, Colbert found that claim hard to swallow.

The Late Show' host Stephen Colbert said President Donald Trump's attacks on Barack Obama were distracting from his handling of the Epstein files.

While reveling in the latest Wall Street Journal bombshell regarding the Epstein files and Trump’s knowledge of the inclusion of his name, Colbert highlighted a list of apparent nicknames for the former president that he jokingly claimed were also in the files. One in particular, however, stood out: “Micropenis DJT.”

Colbert called it an “insane thing” to put on social media. “If you or I put up an AI video depicting the violent arrest of a former president, we would get a free ride in a windowless van to FBI headquarters, where they would put us to work redacting Trump’s name from the Epstein file,” Colbert said. And that may not even be the worst of it.

Colbert’s late show on CBS has never won a TV Academy prize. The president could well now have changed that. The video plays like a cave painting from the Neolithic era or, even more distantly, from when late-night television still mattered: Stephen Colbert sits in the host chair and makes amends with Donald Trump.

Stephen Colbert's feud with Trump following CBS' cancellation of "The Late Show" could finally earn his show its first Emmy, a Hollywood Reporter editor suggested.

The union says of the Colbert cancellation, "Now, more urgently than ever, is a time for courage, not cowardice."