--- title: Watch Stephen Colbert on Trump Congress Address: LIVE VIDEO description: Following President Donald Trump's first address to Congress, Stephen Colbert went live to give his take on POTUS's plan for America. canonical: https://time.com/4686999/stephen-colbert-trump-congress-address/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-01T16:17:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:41:31.145Z og:title: Stephen Colbert Gutted Trump's Address to Congress Live og:description: "We can at least all agree on one thing: one down, seven to go" og:url: https://time.com/4686999/stephen-colbert-trump-congress-address/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc484f8f995d17047/6988bc872dce01905e9ec77d/stephen-colbert-live.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Stephen Colbert Gutted Trump's Address to Congress Live twitter:description: "We can at least all agree on one thing: one down, seven to go" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc484f8f995d17047/6988bc872dce01905e9ec77d/stephen-colbert-live.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Stephen Colbert Goes Live With a Scathing Takedown of President Trump's Address to Congress  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 1, 2017 4:17 PM UTC  The Late Show with Stephen Colbert The Late Show with Stephen ColbertGail Schulman/CBS via Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 1, 2017 4:17 PM UTC Following [President Donald Trump’s](http://time.com/4686828/donald-trump-congress-address-reading-level/) first [address to Congress](http://time.com/4686621/trump-congress-address-transcript/) Tuesday, [Stephen Colbert](http://time.com/4685426/stephen-colbert-trump-nytimes-ad/) went live to give his take on the plan POTUS had laid out for America. _The Late Show_ host delivered his scathing opening monologue within hours of the conclusion of Trump’s speech, offering a play-by-play breakdown of the night. “The theme of the speech was ‘renewal of the American spirit,’ which I gotta say, really just sounds like a Chinese bootleg of ‘Make America Great Again,'” he quipped. Colbert also took shots at several of Trump’s policy stances, including his proposals for immigration and healthcare. Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4686999/stephen-colbert-trump-congress-address/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4686999/stephen-colbert-trump-congress-address/"},"headline":"Stephen Colbert Goes Live With a Scathing Takedown of President Trump's Address to Congress","datePublished":"2017-03-01T16:17:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:41:31.145Z","description":"\"We can at least all agree on one thing: one down, seven to go\"","url":"https://time.com/4686999/stephen-colbert-trump-congress-address/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","politics","stephen colbert","TV","Donald Trump","the late show","Late Night Television","the late show wih stephen colbert"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc484f8f995d17047/6988bc872dce01905e9ec77d/stephen-colbert-live.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc484f8f995d17047/6988bc872dce01905e9ec77d/stephen-colbert-live.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The Late Show with Stephen Colbert","caption":"The Late Show with Stephen Colbert","creditText":"Gail Schulman/CBS via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/4686999/stephen-colbert-trump-congress-address/","name":"Stephen Colbert Goes Live With a Scathing Takedown of President Trump's Address to Congress"}}]}] ```