--- description: After Donald Trump named Steve Bannon as his chief strategist, Stephen Colbert opened The Late Show with a critique of the appointment. title: Stephen Colbert Denounces Steve Bannon image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch Stephen Colbert Denounce Donald Trump's New Chief Strategist Steve Bannon  by [Megan McCluskey](/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Nov 15, 2016 3:56 PM CUT  by [Megan McCluskey](/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Nov 15, 2016 3:56 PM CUT After [Donald Trump](http://time.com/4569034/donald-trump-undocumented-immigrant-deportation/ "undefined") named [Steve Bannon as his chief strategist](http://time.com/4569588/donald-trump-stephen-bannon-breitbart-white-house/ "undefined") and senior adviser in the White House Sunday, it seemed only natural that Stephen Colbert open Monday night’s episode of _The Late Show_ with a critique of the appointment. The host slammed the president-elect’s pick of the executive chairman of Breitbart News within the first three minutes of his monologue, denouncing Banon’s [ties to the alt-right](http://time.com/4569895/donald-trump-stephen-bannon-alt-right/ "undefined") — an extreme conservative sect that comprises white nationalism at large. “‘Are there anti-Semitic people involved in the alt-right? Absolutely. Are there racist people involved in the alt-right? Absolutely. But I don’t believe that the movement overall is anti-Semitic,'” Colbert quoted Bannon, adding his own punch line, “So it’s not ‘overall’ anti-Semitic. Come to my party! The birthday cake is only part-turd. Eat up!” Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4571258/stephen-colbert-donald-trump-steve-bannon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4571258/stephen-colbert-donald-trump-steve-bannon/"},"headline":"Watch Stephen Colbert Denounce Donald Trump's New Chief Strategist Steve Bannon","datePublished":"2016-11-15T15:56:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:38:40.694Z","description":"\"White House chief strategist and Robert Redford dredged from a river\"","url":"https://time.com/4571258/stephen-colbert-donald-trump-steve-bannon/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","politics","stephen colbert","TV","Donald Trump","the late show with stephen colbert","steve bannon"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4571258/stephen-colbert-donald-trump-steve-bannon/","name":"Watch Stephen Colbert Denounce Donald Trump's New Chief Strategist Steve Bannon"}}]}] ```