--- title: Billy Bush Criticizes Donald Trump on Stephen Colbert's Show description: Billy Bush made an appearance on 'The Late Show' with Stephen Colbert Monday night, telling President Donald Trump that "enough's enough" canonical: https://time.com/5049126/billy-bush-stephen-colbert-donald-trump/ author: Eli Meixler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-12-05T09:04:12.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:26.059Z og:title: Watch Billy Bush Take on President Trump on 'The Late Show' og:description: "Enough's enough" og:url: https://time.com/5049126/billy-bush-stephen-colbert-donald-trump/ 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: Watch Billy Bush Take on President Trump on 'The Late Show' twitter:description: "Enough's enough" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # 'Enough's Enough.' Billy Bush Takes Aim at President Trump on _The Late Show_ ## Video: Donald Trump's Facebook Statement [Watch (HLS stream): Donald Trump's Facebook Statement](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/MLqKZLTC.m3u8) (1:31)  _Published 2016-10-08. The bombshell dropped on the Washington Post’s website : a video of Donald Trump, in 2005, using extremely vulgar language to describe women, detailing his attempt to bed a married woman and bragging that he can grope women because he is a celebrity._ by [Eli Meixler](https://time.com/author/eli/) ## Eli Meixler Dec 5, 2017 9:04 AM UTC by [Eli Meixler](https://time.com/author/eli/) ## Eli Meixler Dec 5, 2017 9:04 AM UTC Billy Bush appeared on _The Late Show with Stephen Colbert_ Monday night, calling out President Donald Trump after he denied his voice was captured on [an audio recording](http://time.com/5038934/donald-trump-access-hollywood-authentic-tape/) making crude remarks about women. “That is your voice,” Bush said on _The Late Show_. “I was there, you were there, that’s your voice on the tape.” The appearance followed a rousing op-ed published in the New York _Times_ Sunday in which the former NBC host expressed solidarity with women who have come forward to [accuse the president of sexual misconduct](http://time.com/5030698/sexual-harassment-trump/). Bush had largely disappeared from the public eye after [The Washington _Post_](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-recorded-having-extremely-lewd-conversation-about-women-in-2005/2016/10/07/3b9ce776-8cb4-11e6-bf8a-3d26847eeed4%5Fstory.html?tid=sm%5Ftw&utm%5Fterm=.f3c6df9ac7e5) reported in October 2016 on the now-[infamous _Access Hollywood_ tape](http://time.com/4523526/donald-trump-women-leaked-audio/), in which Donald Trump boasts about sexually assaulting women. “Enough’s enough,” Bush added, “stop playing around with people’s lives.” In a column in the New York _Times_ titled [“Yes, Donald Trump, You Said That”](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/03/opinion/billy-bush-trump-access-hollywood-tape.html), Bush wrote that he was compelled to speak out after Trump’s recent efforts to [discount the authenticity of the recording](http://time.com/5038934/donald-trump-access-hollywood-authentic-tape/), which was originally taped in 2005. “I can only imagine how it has reopened the wounds of the women who came forward with their stories about him, and did not receive enough attention,” Bush wrote. “This country is currently trying to reconcile itself to years of power abuse and sexual misconduct.” The sit-down with Colbert was Bush’s first late-night show interview since being [fired from NBC](http://time.com/money/4422137/billy-bush-severance-packages-mayer-ailes/). Bush also [spoke with _The Hollywood Reporter_](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/billy-bush-breaks-his-silence-trump-access-hollywood-tape-nbc-a-comeback-plan-1005744) in May, saying that he now wishes he “had changed the topic” when Trump began joking about sexually assaulting women. “But I didn’t have the strength of character to do it,” Bush said. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5049126/billy-bush-stephen-colbert-donald-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5049126/billy-bush-stephen-colbert-donald-trump/"},"headline":"'Enough's Enough.' 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