--- title: Stephen Colbert Imagines if Obama Tweeted Like Trump Video description: Colbert mocked POTUS on Wednesday night by creating a fake tweet from President Obama written in the style of President Trump. canonical: https://time.com/4838917/president-barack-obama-donald-trump-stephen-colbert-twitter/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-29T15:16:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:45:00.089Z og:title: Stephen Colbert Imagines if Obama Tweeted Like Trump og:description: What if President Obama was Tweetster-in-Chief? og:url: https://time.com/4838917/president-barack-obama-donald-trump-stephen-colbert-twitter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Stephen Colbert Imagines if Obama Tweeted Like Trump twitter:description: What if President Obama was Tweetster-in-Chief? twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Stephen Colbert Welcomes You to an Imaginary World Where Obama Tweets Like Trump by [Nick Romano / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Nick Romano / Entertainment Weekly Jun 29, 2017 3:16 PM UTC by [Nick Romano / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Nick Romano / Entertainment Weekly Jun 29, 2017 3:16 PM UTC President Trump earned the nickname “[Tweetster in Chief](http://ew.com/tv/2017/06/28/stephen-colbert-cnn-retraction-trump-fake-news/)” for [his constant barrage of tweets](http://ew.com/tv/2017/06/27/donald-trump-fake-news-twitter/), but Stephen Colbert imagined if that trait belonged instead to former President Obama. The host of _The Late Show_ mocked POTUS on Wednesday night in creating a fake tweet from Obama written in the style of Trump. Serving as inspiration, Trump attacked _The Washington Post_ over Twitter after the paper released a report about a fake _Time_ magazine cover hanging in his golf clubs. “We know you think _The Washington Post_ is fake news, you don’t have to keep telling us,” Colbert said. “I mean, Obama didn’t wake up every morning and tweet, ‘Still first black president. #iamthedream.’ He didn’t do it. He didn’t have to.” “The #AmazonWashingtonPost, sometimes referred to as the guardian of Amazon not paying internet taxes (which they should) is FAKE NEWS,” Trump tweeted Wednesday morning. Both Colbert and _Late Night_ host [Seth Meyers](http://ew.com/tv/2017/06/29/seth-meyers-trump-fake-time-magazine-cover/) laughed in their respective segments as they pointed out there is no such thing as an internet tax. “That’s a fake tweet,” Colbert said. Watch his monologue in the clip above. _This_ [_article_](http://ew.com/tv/2017/06/29/stephen-colbert-imagines-if-obama-tweeted-like-trump/) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://ew.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4838917/president-barack-obama-donald-trump-stephen-colbert-twitter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4838917/president-barack-obama-donald-trump-stephen-colbert-twitter/"},"headline":"Stephen Colbert Welcomes You to an Imaginary World Where Obama Tweets Like Trump","datePublished":"2017-06-29T15:16:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:45:00.089Z","description":"What if President Obama was Tweetster-in-Chief?","url":"https://time.com/4838917/president-barack-obama-donald-trump-stephen-colbert-twitter/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Late Night","Late Night Television","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nick Romano / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"","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":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4838917/president-barack-obama-donald-trump-stephen-colbert-twitter/","name":"Stephen Colbert Welcomes You to an Imaginary World Where Obama Tweets Like Trump"}}]}] ```