--- title: Stephen Colbert on Trump Obamacare Repeal, Climate Change description: Following a week-long hiatus, Stephen Colbert returned to The Late Show Monday night for his first show of the Trump administration. canonical: https://time.com/4654959/stephen-colbert-trump-on-obamacare/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-31T16:16:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:40:37.459Z og:title: Stephen Colbert Says Trump's Alread Moved the Country Back to 2004 og:description: "He can really get lot of stuff undone' og:url: https://time.com/4654959/stephen-colbert-trump-on-obamacare/ 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 Says Trump's Alread Moved the Country Back to 2004 twitter:description: "He can really get lot of stuff undone' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Stephen Colbert on Trump's First Week: 'He's Already Moved the Country Back to 2004' > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 31, 2017 4:16 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 31, 2017 4:16 PM UTC Following a week-long hiatus, [Stephen Colbert](http://time.com/4642349/stephen-colbert-donald-trump-inauguaration/) returned to _The Late Show_ Monday night for his first show of the [Trump administration](http://time.com/4652964/donald-trump-first-week-refugees-reaction/). The host wasted no time sharing his thoughts on the president’s first week in office, delivering a scathing opening monologue addressing the [controversial orders](http://time.com/4653063/donald-trump-muslim-ban-new-york-protests/) Trump has issued since his inauguration. “You’ve got to give the guy credit. He can really get a lot of stuff undone,” he said. “From Obamacare to climate change to torture, he’s already moved the country back to 2004\. If this keeps up, pretty soon I’m going to launch the _Colbert Report_…He is the Usain Bolt of executive orders.” However, it was Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon’s likening of Trump voters to “working-class hobbits” that really got diehard _Lord of the Rings_ fan Colbert worked up. “You might be the dark media genius behind the biggest electoral upset in American history. You might be playing footsie with neo-Nazis,” he seethed. “But now we’re talking Tolkien.” Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4654959/stephen-colbert-trump-on-obamacare/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4654959/stephen-colbert-trump-on-obamacare/"},"headline":"Stephen Colbert on Trump's First Week: 'He's Already Moved the Country Back to 2004'","datePublished":"2017-01-31T16:16:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:40:37.459Z","description":"\"He is the Usain Bolt of executive orders\"","url":"https://time.com/4654959/stephen-colbert-trump-on-obamacare/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","stephen colbert","TV","Donald Trump","the late show","the late show with stephen colbert"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"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/4654959/stephen-colbert-trump-on-obamacare/","name":"Stephen Colbert on Trump's First Week: 'He's Already Moved the Country Back to 2004'"}}]}] ```