--- title: Stephen Colbert: Andy Serkis Read Trump Tweets as Gollum description: Warning: you may not be able to un-hear Andy Serkis reading Trump's tweets in his Gollum voice. canonical: https://time.com/4854633/andy-serkis-reads-trump-tweets-video/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-12T15:19:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:45:19.096Z og:title: Colbert Had Andy Serkis Read Trump's Tweets as Gollum og:description: Warning: you may not be able to un-hear this og:url: https://time.com/4854633/andy-serkis-reads-trump-tweets-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta0d678b878314e4d/6988d552e76ad206eb62e4b0/gollum.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Gollum og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Colbert Had Andy Serkis Read Trump's Tweets as Gollum twitter:description: Warning: you may not be able to un-hear this twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta0d678b878314e4d/6988d552e76ad206eb62e4b0/gollum.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # You Won't Be Able to Unhear Andy Serkis Reading Trump's Tweets as Gollum on Colbert by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jul 12, 2017 3:19 PM UTC  by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jul 12, 2017 3:19 PM UTC Stephen Colbert is a big fan of J.R.R. Tolkien’s _Lord of the Rings_ and if you weren’t already a fan, once you hear Andy Serkis read [President Trump’s](http://time.com/4852642/donald-trump-russia-election-investigation/?xid=homepage) tweets in Gollum’s voice, you just might become one. While Serkis is on the talk show circuit to help promote his new movie _War for the Planet of the Apes_, he was willing to step back into his _Lord of the Rings_ role as a special favor for [noted Tolkien enthusiast](http://time.com/4440615/stephen-colbert-late-show-lord-of-the-rings/?iid=sr-link1) Colbert, when he stopped by _The Late Show_ on Tuesday night. Serkis hunkered down in a chair on Colbert’s set to transform into Gollum and proceeded to read from President Trump’s account and the “fake news media” never sounded so unsettling. “The fake news media has never been so wrong or so dirty,” Serkis said in Gollum’s raspy voice. “Purposely incorrect stories and phony sources to meet their agenda of hate. Sad.” Serkis-as-Gollum stumbled when he got to [Trump’s](http://time.com/4854378/russia-trump-jr-scandal/?xid=homepage) now-infamous “[covfefe](http://time.com/4806908/stephen-colbert-trump-travel-ban-tweets/?iid=sr-link7)” tweet. “What is covfefe, precious?” Serkis asked Colbert. “No one knows!” he replied. Stephen Colbert: Andy Serkis Read Trump Tweets as Gollum ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4854633/andy-serkis-reads-trump-tweets-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4854633/andy-serkis-reads-trump-tweets-video/"},"headline":"You Won't Be Able to Unhear Andy Serkis Reading Trump's Tweets as Gollum on Colbert","datePublished":"2017-07-12T15:19:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:45:19.096Z","description":"Warning: you may not be able to un-hear this","url":"https://time.com/4854633/andy-serkis-reads-trump-tweets-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Late Night Television","late show with stephen colbert"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta0d678b878314e4d/6988d552e76ad206eb62e4b0/gollum.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta0d678b878314e4d/6988d552e76ad206eb62e4b0/gollum.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Gollum","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/4854633/andy-serkis-reads-trump-tweets-video/","name":"You Won't Be Able to Unhear Andy Serkis Reading Trump's Tweets as Gollum on Colbert"}}]}] ```