--- title: Stephen Colbert Made a Trump Mashup Valentine for Melania description: Stephen Colbert made a special mashup video valentine for Melania Trump, just using footage of her husband, president Donald Trump. canonical: https://time.com/5157671/stephen-colbert-donald-trump-melania-valentine/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-02-14T16:32:25.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:50:38.578Z og:title: Stephen Colbert Made a Trump Mashup Valentine for Melania og:description: Romance, the Donald Trump way og:url: https://time.com/5157671/stephen-colbert-donald-trump-melania-valentine/ 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 Made a Trump Mashup Valentine for Melania twitter:description: Romance, the Donald Trump way twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Stephen Colbert Delivered a Special Valentine to Melania Using Donald Trump's Words > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Feb 14, 2018 4:32 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Feb 14, 2018 4:32 PM UTC Just in time for [Valentine’s Day](http://time.com/5143563/real-st-valentine-valentines-day-history/), Stephen Colbert dialed up the romance to give [Melania Trump](http://time.com/melania-trump-inauguration-model-first-lady/) a very special valentine in the form of a mashup video tribute from her husband [President Donald Trump](http://time.com/5097122/president-trump-time-year-one-cover/). Using the President’s own words, Colbert and _The Late Show’s_ staff show the depth and breadth of Donald’s love for not only Melania, but states like Florida and South Carolina, Ben Roethlisberger, Tom Brady, “the Asians,” “the Hispanics,” “the African-Americans,” and women in general. A close listen to Trump’s running dialogue, however, will suggest that Colbert believes there’s definitely one person that he loves a lot that just might not be Melania; in fact, his opening words give some pretty good insight into just who that might be. “Melania, I just wanted to say, from the bottom of my heart, which, by the way is so strong,” he said. “Good stamina, unlike Hillary. That’s why she lost the election. 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