--- title: Stephen Colbert Says Donald Trump Is Boring Late Night Guest description: Stephen Colbert had a surprising reveal about President Donald Trump: apparently, Trump is a boring late night guest. canonical: https://time.com/5023261/stephen-colbert-on-trump-late-show-interview/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-11-14T16:35:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:02:50.703Z og:title: Here's Why Stephen Colbert Didn't Like Hosting Donald Trump og:description: "Trump wouldn’t even look me in the eye, really" og:url: https://time.com/5023261/stephen-colbert-on-trump-late-show-interview/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte67d1bb309f0d5cb/6988e5c48fd2eed150359a23/stephen-colbert-on-interviewing-donald-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's Why Stephen Colbert Didn't Like Hosting Donald Trump twitter:description: "Trump wouldn’t even look me in the eye, really" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte67d1bb309f0d5cb/6988e5c48fd2eed150359a23/stephen-colbert-on-interviewing-donald-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Stephen Colbert Has a Surprising Gripe About Donald Trump — And It Has Nothing to Do With Politics > Sponsored content. 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Ask Donald Trump a tough question, and he’ll often answer: What about something else?_  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Nov 14, 2017 4:35 PM UTC  NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 22: Donald Trump talks about his US Presidential campaign on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Tuesday Sept. 22, 2015 on the CBS Television Network. (Photo by John Paul Filo/CBS via Getty Images) NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 22: Donald Trump talks about his US Presidential campaign on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Tuesday Sept. 22, 2015 on the CBS Television Network. (Photo by John Paul Filo/CBS via Getty Images) CBS Photo Archive—CBS via Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Nov 14, 2017 4:35 PM UTC While [Stephen Colbert](http://time.com/4738803/stephen-colbert-on-trump-ratings/) has been a vocal critic of Donald Trump’s time in the Oval Office, he had a surprisingly apolitical critique to offer about the President when [he was a guest on ](http://time.com/4038202/colbert-fallon/)_The Late Show with Stephen Colbert_. In an interview with [_GQ_](https://www.gq.com/story/stephen-colbert-makes-america-great), Colbert revealed that he thinks that Trump is boring, an observation that’s gained less momentum from the public than, say, than Colbert’s views on [Trump’s healthcare plan](http://time.com/4712235/stephen-colbert-on-trump-health/) or [Trump’s Twitter fingers.](http://time.com/4977418/stephen-colbert-donald-trump-iq-tweets/) “Trump is actually kind of a boring guest,” he said. “My brother Ed was in the audience the night that Trump was on, in 2015\. And after the show, he goes, ‘Okay, so he’s not a dummy.’ Because Trump wouldn’t even look me in the eye, really. He put his hands in his lap like a little boy, and he was very, very safe. Obviously, there’s an element of fear of making a mistake—what’s he going to get out of the interview if he’s too entertaining?” That’s not to say that Colbert withheld his dissatisfaction with Trump as the leader of the country in the rest of the interview; later, he went on to compare Donald Trump’s representation of the U.S. to “hearing little children say filthy words. 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