--- title: Stephen Colbert Takes Down Trump on 2019 State of the Union description: Stephen Colbert went live to deliver a sharp takedown of of President Donald Trump's 2019 State of the Union address. canonical: https://time.com/5522787/stephen-colbert-live-sotu/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-02-06T15:48:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:57:22.139Z og:title: Stephen Colbert Delivers Live Takedown of State of the Union og:description: "This speech was like watching paint lie" og:url: https://time.com/5522787/stephen-colbert-live-sotu/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt766a9cf7947a3a6f/6989449f656a3f2f32bd6932/screen-shot-2019-02-06-at-10.17.35-am.png?branch=production&width=1194&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1194 og:image:height: 672 og:image:alt: Stephen-Colbert-Live-State-of-the-Union og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Stephen Colbert Delivers Live Takedown of State of the Union twitter:description: "This speech was like watching paint lie" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt766a9cf7947a3a6f/6989449f656a3f2f32bd6932/screen-shot-2019-02-06-at-10.17.35-am.png?branch=production&width=1194&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Stephen Colbert Took Shots at Every Part of Trump's 2019 State of the Union > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 6, 2019 3:48 PM UTC  CBS/The Late Show With Stephen Colbert  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 6, 2019 3:48 PM UTC Just a little over an hour after the conclusion of [President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address](http://time.com/5521860/2019-state-of-the-union-trump-transcript/), [Stephen Colbert](http://time.com/5486658/stephen-colbert-monologue-last-night/) went live to deliver a sharp takedown of the speech. Colbert opened Tuesday’s episode of _The Late Show_ with a nearly 16-minute-long monologue dissecting pretty much every topic Trump touched on during his 82-minute speech, the longest State of the Union address since [President Bill Clinton spoke for 89 minutes in 2000](https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/presidential-documents-archive-guidebook/annual-messages-congress-the-state-the-union-0). “This was not a particularly good speech. But what it lacked in quality, it made up in length,” Colbert said. “This speech was like watching paint _lie_.” The late-night host went on to get a particularly big laugh with a joke about Trump boasting that the U.S. is “considered far and away the hottest economy anywhere in the world.” “It is so hot, if it wasn’t my economy perhaps I’d be dating it,” Colbert quipped, referencing a controversial comment that Trump made about his daughter Ivanka during a [2006 appearance on _The View_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP7yf8-Lk80). 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