Stephen Colbert Mocks Trump’s ‘Hard-to-Get’ Routine with Kim Jong-Un: ‘Dude, Attempt to Chill!’

The Late Show host Stephen Colbert mocked President Donald Trump as playing “hard-to-get” with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, jibing that while the president claimed he “hadn’t thought” about meeting the dictator during his Asia trip, he couldn’t help but keep talking about it.

While visiting multiple countries over the past few days Trump has said he would be “100% open” to meeting Kim, telling reporters aboard Air Force One that the two “get along very well” and urging them to “put out the word.”

Kim has not addressed the idea of meeting, but Colbert leapt at the president’s circling on the idea during Monday’s monologue as obsessive, rolling back a clip of Trump saying he hadn’t thought about it.

“Yeah, he hadn’t thought of it. Hasn’t thought of Kim Jong-Un at all. Really? Here’s all the other times on the trip he wasn’t thinking about him,” the comedian jabbed, rolling further clips of Trump saying he’d be open to the meeting.

Colbert jumped in, pretending to be the president: “It doesn’t matter to me. Do you think he got my message? Did he get the message? Is he watching this? I don’t care if he does. Should I text him now? No, it’s too soon. Right. I’m going to text him again. I’m going to text him again. But I’m going to keep it cool. Keep it cash.”

Pretending to pull a mobile phone from his pocket, the host read as he typed: “I love you.”

“I won’t – I’ll send it. I’ll send it now. I won’t send it again,” he continued as the audience laughed.

Trump, who in 2019 became the first sitting U.S. president to cross into North Korea, has not met Kim since that historic encounter. The White House, however, has said no meeting is planned during the president’s five-day tour, which includes stops in Malaysia, Japan, and South Korea.

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