--- title: Stephen Colbert on Trump and Alex Jones VIDEO description: Stephen Colbert has a bone to pick about the budding friendship between President Donald Trump and Infowars head honcho Alex Jones. canonical: https://time.com/4680118/stephen-colbert-trump-alex-jones/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-23T16:21:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:41:20.361Z og:title: Stephen Colbert Scrutinizes Trump's Relationship With Alex Jones og:description: "Trump’s new phone buddy has gained a reputation for telling it like it isn’t" og:url: https://time.com/4680118/stephen-colbert-trump-alex-jones/ 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 Scrutinizes Trump's Relationship With Alex Jones twitter:description: "Trump’s new phone buddy has gained a reputation for telling it like it isn’t" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Stephen Colbert Scrutinizes Trump's Relationship With 'Conspiracy Theorist' Alex Jones  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 23, 2017 4:21 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 23, 2017 4:21 PM UTC [Stephen Colbert](http://time.com/4678699/stephen-colbert-trump-ben-carson/) has a bone to pick about the budding friendship between [President Donald Trump](http://time.com/4679987/donald-trump-immigrants-deportation/) and Infowars head honcho [Alex Jones](http://time.com/4668566/john-oliver-trump-president-lies/). During the opening monologue of Wednesday’s episode of _The Late Show_, the host mocked the conservative radio host’s [reported new role](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/19/business/media/alex-jones-conspiracy-theories-donald-trump.html?%5Fr=1) as “occasional information source” and “validator” for Trump, airing several controversial clips from his show. “If you’ve been living underground for the last few years, you probably listen to Alex Jones,” Colbert joked. “But for the rest of you, he runs a conspiracy website called Infowars. The name’s easy to remember — just imagine info, then imagine someone at war with it. And Donald Trump’s phone buddy has gained a reputation for telling it like it isn’t.” Watch the full video below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4680118/stephen-colbert-trump-alex-jones/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4680118/stephen-colbert-trump-alex-jones/"},"headline":"Stephen Colbert Scrutinizes Trump's Relationship With 'Conspiracy Theorist' Alex Jones","datePublished":"2017-02-23T16:21:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:41:20.361Z","description":"\"Trump’s new phone buddy has gained a reputation for telling it like it isn’t\"","url":"https://time.com/4680118/stephen-colbert-trump-alex-jones/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","politics","stephen colbert","TV","Donald Trump","the late show","Late Night Television","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/4680118/stephen-colbert-trump-alex-jones/","name":"Stephen Colbert Scrutinizes Trump's Relationship With 'Conspiracy Theorist' Alex Jones"}}]}] ```