--- title: John Oliver Gets Booed During Stephen Colbert Interview description: John Oliver may be known for putting the Trump on blast, but that doesn't mean he thinks that Trump has no chance of getting re-elected. canonical: https://time.com/5527518/john-oliver-on-stephen-colbert/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-02-12T15:50:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:57:27.166Z og:title: John Oliver Gets Booed for Saying Trump Could Be Re-Elected og:description: "We are two to six years away from the end of his presidency" og:url: https://time.com/5527518/john-oliver-on-stephen-colbert/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8be38854ef15406e/698944fce76ad27c5e634268/screen-shot-2019-02-12-at-10.21.52-am.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: John-Oliver-Stephen-Colbert og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: John Oliver Gets Booed for Saying Trump Could Be Re-Elected twitter:description: "We are two to six years away from the end of his presidency" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8be38854ef15406e/698944fce76ad27c5e634268/screen-shot-2019-02-12-at-10.21.52-am.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Audience Chides John Oliver for Suggesting That Trump Could Be Re-Elected on Stephen Colbert  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 12, 2019 3:50 PM UTC  CBS/The Late Show With Stephen Colbert  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 12, 2019 3:50 PM UTC [John Oliver](http://time.com/5437238/john-oliver-last-week-tonight-attorneys-general/) may be known for [putting the Trump administration on blast](http://time.com/5444571/john-oliver-trump-immigration-racism/), but that doesn’t mean he thinks that President Donald Trump has no chance of getting [re-elected in 2020](http://time.com/5460620/2020-presidential-candidates/). During a Monday appearance on _The Late Show with Stephen Colbert_, Oliver was chided by the audience for suggesting that Trump could end up back in the Oval Office for a second term. “I definitely don’t have that kind of optimism,” Oliver said when Colbert proposed that the end of Trump’s presidency could be in sight. “To say we’re halfway through his presidency, I think, is to ignore the concept of a second term possibility. We are two to six years away from the end of his presidency.” The remark prompted a round of boos from _Late Show_ fans, which Oliver chose to interpret as people hoping for Trump to serve beyond the two-term limit set by the Constitution. “Is there some big Trump 2024 fans in here?” he asked. “You’re pulling a different crowd.” Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5527518/john-oliver-on-stephen-colbert/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5527518/john-oliver-on-stephen-colbert/"},"headline":"Audience Chides John Oliver for Suggesting That Trump Could Be Re-Elected on Stephen Colbert","datePublished":"2019-02-12T15:50:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:57:27.166Z","description":"\"We are two to six years away from the end of his presidency\"","url":"https://time.com/5527518/john-oliver-on-stephen-colbert/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","stephen colbert","TV","Late Night Television","John Oliver","the late show with stephen colbert"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8be38854ef15406e/698944fce76ad27c5e634268/screen-shot-2019-02-12-at-10.21.52-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8be38854ef15406e/698944fce76ad27c5e634268/screen-shot-2019-02-12-at-10.21.52-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"John-Oliver-Stephen-Colbert","caption":"","creditText":"CBS/The Late Show With Stephen Colbert","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/5527518/john-oliver-on-stephen-colbert/","name":"Audience Chides John Oliver for Suggesting That Trump Could Be Re-Elected on Stephen Colbert"}}]}] ```