--- title: Stephen Colbert on Donald Trump Claim in April 2017 VIDEO description: Stephen Colbert has a bone to pick with Trump's recent boast that he's had "one of the most successful" starts as president in U.S. history. canonical: https://time.com/4730808/colbert-trump-13-weeks-presidency/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-07T15:25:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:42:38.622Z og:title: Stephen Colbert Rips Trump's 'Most Successful 13 Weeks' of Presidency og:description: "Trump's doing a lot of crowing lately" og:url: https://time.com/4730808/colbert-trump-13-weeks-presidency/ 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 Rips Trump's 'Most Successful 13 Weeks' of Presidency twitter:description: "Trump's doing a lot of crowing lately" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Stephen Colbert Rips Trump's 'Most Successful 13 Weeks' in History of Presidency Claim  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Apr 7, 2017 3:25 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Apr 7, 2017 3:25 PM UTC [Stephen Colbert](http://time.com/4728979/stephen-colbert-kendall-jenner-pepsi-attractive-lives-matter/) has a bone to pick with [Donald Trump’s recent boast](https://twitter.com/PeterAlexander/status/850062240854233090) that he’s had “one of the most successful 13 weeks in the history of the presidency.” After delving into Senate Republicans’ use of the “[nuclear option](http://time.com/4723610/neil-gorsuch-supreme-court-nuclear-option-filibuster/)” to push a vote on the confirmation of [Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch](http://time.com/4728558/neil-gorsuch-filibuster-senate-confirmation-vote/) during Thursday night’s episode of _The Late Show_, the host addressed the controversial Trump claim. “I don’t know if it’s the most successful. I can say it’s not the least successful,” he consented of Trump’s start, jokingly adding, “William Henry Harrison died of pneumonia four weeks into his presidency. It’s still better than Trump. It’s still a little bit better than Trump.” Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4730808/colbert-trump-13-weeks-presidency/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4730808/colbert-trump-13-weeks-presidency/"},"headline":"Stephen Colbert Rips Trump's 'Most Successful 13 Weeks' in History of Presidency Claim","datePublished":"2017-04-07T15:25:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:42:38.622Z","description":"\"Trump's doing a lot of crowing lately\"","url":"https://time.com/4730808/colbert-trump-13-weeks-presidency/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","politics","stephen colbert","TV","Donald Trump","the late show","Late Night Television","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/4730808/colbert-trump-13-weeks-presidency/","name":"Stephen Colbert Rips Trump's 'Most Successful 13 Weeks' in History of Presidency Claim"}}]}] ```