--- title: Donald Trump: Stephen Colbert Mocks Mitt Romney For Dinner description: Stephen Colbert went hard on Mitt Romney for dining with Donald Trump after attacking him. canonical: https://time.com/4587276/donald-trump-mitt-romney-dinner-stephen-colbert/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-01T16:18:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:46:32.663Z og:title: Stephen Colbert Targets Mitt Romney for Dining With Trump og:description: Colbert goes after Romney for dining with the "billionaire of the people" og:url: https://time.com/4587276/donald-trump-mitt-romney-dinner-stephen-colbert/ 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 Targets Mitt Romney for Dining With Trump twitter:description: Colbert goes after Romney for dining with the "billionaire of the people" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Stephen Colbert Mocks Mitt Romney for Cozying Up to Donald Trump by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Dec 1, 2016 4:18 PM UTC by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Dec 1, 2016 4:18 PM UTC [Stephen Colbert](http://time.com/4536329/melania-trump-laura-benanti-colbert/) returned to _The Late Show_ Wednesday to get his digs in at Mitt Romney for taking a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at Jean Georges at Trump International Hotel in New York City. The 2012 GOP presidential nominee was meeting with Trump again to discuss a potential [Cabinet](http://time.com/4572963/donald-trump-cabinet-interactive/) position, and Colbert wasn’t going to let that slide without a few jabs. The talk-show host showed a clip of the former governor making a [sharply-worded case](http://time.com/4246596/donald-trump-mitt-romney-utah-speech/) against the Republican nominee in March, calling Trump a “fraud.” “His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University. He’s playing the American people for suckers. He gets a free ride to the White House and all we get is a lousy hat,” Romney said.  U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, left, and Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, dine at Jean Georges Restaurant in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016\. Congressional Republicans are considering a lightning-strike rollback of Obamacare early next year to kick off the Trump era, but first they have to agree on a plan limited enough to hold their caucus together. Photographer: John Angelillo/Pool via Bloomberg Bloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty Images Colbert then shared the now [famous photo](https://www.cnet.com/news/trump-romney-texas-mosque-leeco-opec-twitter-awards-social-cues/) of the meal that provided the Internet with plenty of meme fodder, joking that Trump looked like “the guy who fired the devil the week before Christmas” while Romney appeared to be “eating crow.” Watch the full clip of Colbert tackling this meeting, the recount and Trump’s tweets below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4587276/donald-trump-mitt-romney-dinner-stephen-colbert/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4587276/donald-trump-mitt-romney-dinner-stephen-colbert/"},"headline":"Stephen Colbert Mocks Mitt Romney for Cozying Up to Donald Trump","datePublished":"2016-12-01T16:18:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:46:32.663Z","description":"\"Eating crow\"","url":"https://time.com/4587276/donald-trump-mitt-romney-dinner-stephen-colbert/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","mitt romney","stephen colbert"],"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/4587276/donald-trump-mitt-romney-dinner-stephen-colbert/","name":"Stephen Colbert Mocks Mitt Romney for Cozying Up to Donald Trump"}}]}] ```