--- title: Watch Stephen Colbert Put Trump on Notice Video description: Watch Stephen Colbert officially put Trump on notice for stealing his former blowhard conservative character from The Colbert Report. canonical: https://time.com/4659460/stephen-colbert-trump-on-notice/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-03T15:54:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:40:46.200Z og:title: Stephen Colbert Puts Trump on Notice for Stealing His Act og:description: "I came up with the over-the-top TV character who's desperate to be loved" og:url: https://time.com/4659460/stephen-colbert-trump-on-notice/ 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 Puts Trump on Notice for Stealing His Act twitter:description: "I came up with the over-the-top TV character who's desperate to be loved" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Stephen Colbert Officially Put Donald Trump on Notice for Stealing His Act  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 3, 2017 3:54 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 3, 2017 3:54 PM UTC Following [Donald Trump’s](http://time.com/4657209/president-trump-second-week-politics-pictures/) recent [tweet](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/827118012784373760) stating that the White House was formally putting [Iran](http://time.com/4659312/iran-wrestling-competition-ban-donald-trump/) “on notice” in the wake of an Iranian ballistic missile test and strikes by Iranian-backed rebels, [Stephen Colbert](http://time.com/4657888/stephen-colbert-on-trump-black-history/) had a bone to pick with the President. During the opening monologue of Thursday night’s _The Late Show_, the host accused Trump of borrowing heavily from his work on _The Colbert Report_ — the Comedy Central show where the satirist played the conservative windbag persona, Dr. Stephen T. Colbert. “I came up with the over-the-top TV character who’s desperate to be loved, doesn’t believe in facts and has a pet eagle,” he fumed. “Plus we both ran for president — only one of us knew it was a joke.” Colbert even brought out his infamous “On Notice” board to add Trump to the list. Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4659460/stephen-colbert-trump-on-notice/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4659460/stephen-colbert-trump-on-notice/"},"headline":"Watch Stephen Colbert Officially Put Donald Trump on Notice for Stealing His Act","datePublished":"2017-02-03T15:54:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:40:46.200Z","description":"\"I came up with the over-the-top TV character who's desperate to be loved\"","url":"https://time.com/4659460/stephen-colbert-trump-on-notice/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","politics","stephen colbert","TV","Donald Trump","the late show","the late show wih 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/4659460/stephen-colbert-trump-on-notice/","name":"Watch Stephen Colbert Officially Put Donald Trump on Notice for Stealing His Act"}}]}] ```