--- title: Stephen Colbert on Donald Trump Kanye West Meeting VIDEO description: Stephen Colbert thinks he has a pretty good idea what Donald Trump and Kanye West were talking about during their meeting on Tuesday. canonical: https://time.com/4602021/stephen-colbert-trump-kanye-meeting/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-14T15:59:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:39:27.474Z og:title: Here's What Stephen Colbert Thinks Trump and Kanye Met About og:description: What a time to be alive og:url: https://time.com/4602021/stephen-colbert-trump-kanye-meeting/ 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: Here's What Stephen Colbert Thinks Trump and Kanye Met About twitter:description: What a time to be alive twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Stephen Colbert Has a Theory About What That Trump and Kanye Meeting Was Really About  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Dec 14, 2016 3:59 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Dec 14, 2016 3:59 PM UTC While [Kanye West and Donald Trump’s meeting at Trump Tower](http://time.com/4599064/kanye-west-donald-trump-tower/) yesterday seemed to [baffle most people](http://time.com/4599582/celeb-reactions-kanye-west-trump-tower/), Stephen Colbert thinks that he has a pretty good idea about what the two were chatting about. During his _Late Show_ opening monologue on Tuesday, Colbert said that the meeting united “the two most powerful American narcissists in the same room,” and even speculated that the meeting could result in a collaboration. “I heard these two are going to drop an album together,” he joked. “It’s called _The Deportation of Pablo_.” West has [voiced his support of the president-elect](http://time.com/4577999/kanye-west-rant-sacramento-beyonce-hillary-clinton/) at the the most recent concerts he gave before canceling the rest of his _Saint Pablo_ tour and [being hospitalized](http://time.com/4579541/kanye-west-hospitalized/). The rapper took to his Twitter after a social media hiatus to tell followers that [he and Trump discussed “multicultural issues”](http://time.com/4599983/kanye-west-donald-trump-meeting/) including “bullying, supporting teachers, modernizing curriculums, and violence in Chicago.” > [](https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/808767333065981956) > [](https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/808768768906235908) Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4602021/stephen-colbert-trump-kanye-meeting/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4602021/stephen-colbert-trump-kanye-meeting/"},"headline":"Stephen Colbert Has a Theory About What That Trump and Kanye Meeting Was Really About","datePublished":"2016-12-14T15:59:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:39:27.474Z","description":"What a time to be alive","url":"https://time.com/4602021/stephen-colbert-trump-kanye-meeting/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Kanye West","stephen colbert","celebrity","Donald Trump","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"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/4602021/stephen-colbert-trump-kanye-meeting/","name":"Stephen Colbert Has a Theory About What That Trump and Kanye Meeting Was Really About"}}]}] ```