--- title: Stephen Colbert on Donald Trump Butler Button VIDEO description: Late Show host Stephen Colbert apparently isn't a fan of hearing about President Donald Trump pressing any sort of big red button. canonical: https://time.com/4757418/stephen-colbert-trump-butler-button/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-27T14:57:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:43:09.789Z og:title: Stephen Colbert Reacts to the Purpose of Trump's 'Red Button' og:description: The late night host nearly has a panic attack og:url: https://time.com/4757418/stephen-colbert-trump-butler-button/ 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 Reacts to the Purpose of Trump's 'Red Button' twitter:description: The late night host nearly has a panic attack twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch the Nerve-Racking Moment Stephen Colbert Discovers the Purpose of Trump's 'Red Button'  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Apr 27, 2017 2:57 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Apr 27, 2017 2:57 PM UTC [Stephen Colbert](http://time.com/4755763/stephen-colbert-alex-jones-chobani-yogurt/) apparently isn’t a fan of hearing about [President Donald Trump](http://time.com/4757286/the-simpsons-president-donald-trump-100-days/) pressing any sort of [big red button](http://time.com/4362515/google-artificial-intelligence-deep-mind/). During the opening monologue of Wednesday’s episode of _The Late Show_, the host nearly had a panic attack upon seeing a recent [_Associated Press_](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/c9dd871023064917932966816d6c2c2d/trump-100-days-its-different-kind-presidency)report referencing Trump’s continuous access to a button placed on the Resolute Desk. However, there was actually no need for alarm, as the story then revealed its only purpose was calling a butler to bring POTUS a Coke. “Thank God, I was worried there. He’s just turning the Oval Office into an eight-year-old’s drawing of a dream treehouse,” he said before imagining what that would entail for Trump. “‘There will be a button where I get a Coke wherever I want, a slide with a ball pit, and Bigfoot sleeps over and he teaches me karate.'” Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4757418/stephen-colbert-trump-butler-button/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4757418/stephen-colbert-trump-butler-button/"},"headline":"Watch the Nerve-Racking Moment Stephen Colbert Discovers the Purpose of Trump's 'Red Button'","datePublished":"2017-04-27T14:57:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:43:09.789Z","description":"The late night host nearly has a panic attack","url":"https://time.com/4757418/stephen-colbert-trump-butler-button/","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/4757418/stephen-colbert-trump-butler-button/","name":"Watch the Nerve-Racking Moment Stephen Colbert Discovers the Purpose of Trump's 'Red Button'"}}]}] ```