--- title: Donald Trump: Stephen Colbert Calls Candidate a D-Bag description: Stephen Colbert has some choice words for Donald Trump on his show, The Late Show Monday night. canonical: https://time.com/4434984/stephen-colbert-donald-trump-dbag/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-02T15:06:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:34:59.536Z og:title: Stephen Colbert Has a Very Specific Insult for Donald Trump og:description: And other things og:url: https://time.com/4434984/stephen-colbert-donald-trump-dbag/ 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 Has a Very Specific Insult for Donald Trump twitter:description: And other things twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Stephen Colbert Has a Very Specific Insult for Donald Trump by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Aug 2, 2016 3:06 PM UTC by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Aug 2, 2016 3:06 PM UTC [Stephen Colbert](http://time.com/4425970/hillary-clinton-stephen-colbert-cartoon/) lambasted Donald Trump on Monday night’s [_The Late Show_](http://time.com/4414591/stephen-colbert-late-show-republican-convention/) by calling him the worst names, in a sly way. Colbert took to his resurrected bit “The Werd,” to knock down Trump’s critique of DNC speakers Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the parents of an American soldier who died in the Iraq war. Recently, Trump [tweeted](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/759743648573435905), “Mr. Khan, who does not know me, viciously attacked me from the stage of the DNC and is now all over T.V. doing the same – Nice!” Unlike Khan, Colbert proved that he met Trump with a picture, which makes him totally eligible to get vicious with a one-two punch. It’s a situation that requires cursing, but how does the host do that on network TV? Abbreviations. “So I’m solid ground when I say Donald, you’re being a dad bag (D-Bag, which again due to space we’ve had to shorten,”) the host said. During the segment, he also calls Trump a “P.O.S.,” which really means (“part of society”) for saying John McCain is “not a war hero.” Colbert should rename all the curse words to help everyone sneak expletives past Auto Correct on their phones. Watch “The Werd” below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4434984/stephen-colbert-donald-trump-dbag/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4434984/stephen-colbert-donald-trump-dbag/"},"headline":"Stephen Colbert Has a Very Specific Insult for Donald Trump","datePublished":"2016-08-02T15:06:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:34:59.536Z","description":"\"You're being a dad bag\"","url":"https://time.com/4434984/stephen-colbert-donald-trump-dbag/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Comedy","stephen colbert","Election 2016","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"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/4434984/stephen-colbert-donald-trump-dbag/","name":"Stephen Colbert Has a Very Specific Insult for Donald Trump"}}]}] ```