--- title: Stephen Colbert Parodies Sarah Palin Speech About Donald Trump description: Stephen Colbert as Sarah Palin endorses Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush, and Marco Rubio canonical: https://time.com/4188577/stephen-colbert-sarah-palin-donald-trump-speech/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-21T15:43:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:29:01.305Z og:title: Watch Stephen Colbert Impersonate Sarah Palin's Trump Endorsement og:description: He endorses Clinton, Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio in one crazy monologue og:url: https://time.com/4188577/stephen-colbert-sarah-palin-donald-trump-speech/ 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: Watch Stephen Colbert Impersonate Sarah Palin's Trump Endorsement twitter:description: He endorses Clinton, Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio in one crazy monologue twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Stephen Colbert Impersonate Sarah Palin's Trump Endorsement ## Video: Watch The Best Quotes By Donald Trump [Watch (HLS stream): Watch The Best Quotes By Donald Trump](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/7MzTpVq2.m3u8) (1:21)  _Published 2015-07-23. Donald Trump's Most Ridiculous Quotes_  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jan 21, 2016 3:43 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jan 21, 2016 3:43 PM UTC On _The Late Show with Stephen Colbert_ Wednesday night, the comedian delivered a send-up of former Republican vice presidential nominee [Sarah Palin’s speech](http://time.com/4185689/donald-trump-sarah-palin-endorse-2016-election/) endorsing 2016 presidential candidate and real estate mogul Donald Trump in Iowa on Tuesday. Since [the Internet](http://time.com/4186659/sarah-palin-trump-endorsement-speech-internet-reactions/) already had a field day with her remarks, he decided to endorse Jeb Bush (“the joyful tortoise”), Hillary Clinton (“the Secretary of hiding emails”), Marco Rubio (“the proud son of immigrants from Cuba, which we’re now letting planes fly to”) and Sebastian the crab from _The Little Mermaid_ (“everything’s better down where it’s wetter under the sea”). The parody of her speech starts at the 4:00 mark. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4188577/stephen-colbert-sarah-palin-donald-trump-speech/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4188577/stephen-colbert-sarah-palin-donald-trump-speech/"},"headline":"Watch Stephen Colbert Impersonate Sarah Palin's Trump Endorsement","datePublished":"2016-01-21T15:43:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:29:01.305Z","description":"He endorses Clinton, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and Sebastian the crab from The Little Mermaid in one crazy monologue","url":"https://time.com/4188577/stephen-colbert-sarah-palin-donald-trump-speech/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"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/4188577/stephen-colbert-sarah-palin-donald-trump-speech/","name":"Watch Stephen Colbert Impersonate Sarah Palin's Trump Endorsement"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Watch The Best Quotes By Donald Trump","description":"Donald Trump's Most Ridiculous Quotes","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/7MzTpVq2/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-07-23T21:38:04.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/7MzTpVq2.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4188577/stephen-colbert-sarah-palin-donald-trump-speech/","duration":"PT1M21S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4188577/stephen-colbert-sarah-palin-donald-trump-speech/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```