Stephen Colbert said on Monday's Late Show that he's worried about his old pal Jeb Bush, especially with a new poll showing the onetime presumptive Republican presidential frontrunner badly trailing actual GOP frontrunner Donald Trump in Bush's home state of Florida. He poked fun at Bush, but he started with a short jab at Trump — Colbert's guest on Tuesday's Late Show. "It makes sense that Florida likes Trump," Colbert said. "I mean, they're used to life-sized cartoon characters with giant heads."
The Bush ribbing centered around a new ad attacking Trump's negativity, put out by Bush's super PAC. It's a good ad, Colbert said, but you know it's a bad sign when Bush's own super PAC drops the trademark exclamation point in his name. "What's next?" he said. "Jeb?" The other problem with the ad is that the stock footage of American greatness is mostly shot overseas — a fact that Colbert puts to good, sometimes cutting, comic effect. You can watch the ad and the mockery below. Peter Weber
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