--- title: Stephen Colbert Puts Together Trump 'No Collusion' Montage description: Stephen Colbert took a look back at all the times President Donald Trump insisted he did not collude with Russia with the phrase "No collusion." canonical: https://time.com/5355011/stephen-colbert-trump-collusion-montage/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-08-01T15:00:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:54:07.085Z og:title: Stephen Colbert Has a Montage of Trump Saying 'No Collusion' og:description: "It's like his 'aloha.' It means both 'hello' and 'I'm guilty'" og:url: https://time.com/5355011/stephen-colbert-trump-collusion-montage/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb75b66d741f1c4eb/698936cc4ee2620be031275e/screen-shot-2018-08-01-at-10-36-22-am.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Stephen-Colbert-Trump-No-Collusion og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Stephen Colbert Has a Montage of Trump Saying 'No Collusion' twitter:description: "It's like his 'aloha.' It means both 'hello' and 'I'm guilty'" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb75b66d741f1c4eb/698936cc4ee2620be031275e/screen-shot-2018-08-01-at-10-36-22-am.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Stephen Colbert Put Together a Long Montage of Trump Saying 'No Collusion'  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Aug 1, 2018 3:00 PM UTC  CBS  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Aug 1, 2018 3:00 PM UTC Now that [President Donald Trump](http://time.com/5354690/trump-rally-groceries/) has [changed his defense](http://time.com/5352628/donald-trump-rudy-giuliani-collusion-crime/) to “Collusion is not a crime,” [Stephen Colbert](http://time.com/5353849/stephen-colbert-on-moonves/) is taking a look back at all the times Trump said there was “No collusion.” During Tuesday’s episode of _The Late Show_, the host aired a montage of Trump repeatedly saying that his campaign had not colluded with Russia throughout Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. “He uses it for every occasion. It’s like his ‘aloha.’ It means both ‘hello’ and ‘I’m guilty,'” Colbert joked. “But he and his team have recently rebranded and our using a new phrase that Trump tweeted out this morning, ‘Collusion is not a crime.'” However, legal experts say that the ambiguity around the term collusion is irrelevant. “It’s not whether it’s the crime of collusion. It’s whether they engaged in the act of collusion in furtherance of _actual_ criminal behavior,” [Bradley Moss](http://time.com/5352628/donald-trump-rudy-giuliani-collusion-crime/), an attorney in Washington D.C. who specializes in national security issues recently told TIME. 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