--- title: Stephen Colbert Trump Fake News Special VIDEO description: Stephen Colbert decided to create his own special Trump-friendly news broadcast in hopes of keeping the president from tweeting. canonical: https://time.com/4682029/stephen-colbert-trump-friendly-news-special/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-24T17:50:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:41:24.228Z og:title: Stephen Colbert Mocks Trump With Fake Positive News About Him og:description: "Our top story: President Donald Trump is very smart" og:url: https://time.com/4682029/stephen-colbert-trump-friendly-news-special/ 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 Mocks Trump With Fake Positive News About Him twitter:description: "Our top story: President Donald Trump is very smart" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Stephen Colbert Mocks Trump With Fake Positive News About Him  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 24, 2017 5:50 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 24, 2017 5:50 PM UTC [Stephen Colbert](http://time.com/4681760/stephen-colbert-on-trans-bathroom/) decided to create his own special President Donald Trump-friendly news broadcast. During Thursday night’s episode of _The Late Show_, the host jumped on the “fake news” bandwagon with a segment of “Real News Tonight” in hopes that it would keep the President’s tweeting in check. “Our top story: President Donald Trump is very smart,” anchor “Jill Newslady” began. “The things he did today were good and everyone loves him.” And the praise just piles up on Trump from there. Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4682029/stephen-colbert-trump-friendly-news-special/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4682029/stephen-colbert-trump-friendly-news-special/"},"headline":"Stephen Colbert Mocks Trump With Fake Positive News About Him","datePublished":"2017-02-24T17:50:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:41:24.228Z","description":"\"Our top story: President Donald Trump is very smart\"","url":"https://time.com/4682029/stephen-colbert-trump-friendly-news-special/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","politics","stephen colbert","TV","Donald Trump","the late show","Late Night Television","fake news","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/4682029/stephen-colbert-trump-friendly-news-special/","name":"Stephen Colbert Mocks Trump With Fake Positive News About Him"}}]}] ```