The latest polls show his approval dropping to just 32%, driven largely by dissatisfaction with how he’s handling the war in Iran and inflation.
Trump turned to social media to share a much more favorable number instead.
“In response to his sinking poll numbers, today Trump posted a New York Times article praising ‘The Apprentice’s’ ratings from April of 2004,” Colbert pointed out.
Indeed, the president shared a two-decade-old Times report about his Season 1 ratings on Truth Social:
Then, three minutes later, he also shared a summary of that same 2004 New York Times article on “The Apprentice” ratings:
Colbert read between the lines.
“Always a tipoff that life isn’t going great for you when you start to brag about something from 22 years ago,” he pointed out. “You kids think dad’s a loser? Well, I’ll have you know that back in high school, I once won two free tickets to see the Spin Doctors in Anaheim at the Grove.”
See more in his Wednesday night “Late Show” monologue:
