Just a week out from the Iowa caucuses, the GOP still hasn't rallied around one candidate, Stephen Colbert said on Monday's Late Show. And the GOP establishment really hates both frontrunners, Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) and Donald Trump, "known by their celebrity couple name, Crump," Colbert said. He devoted the next few minutes to some terrible things conservative pundits and Republicans have said about Cruz and Trump. According to one report, Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) even said in private that he'd rather vote for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) than Cruz. "What?" Colbert laughed. "Ted, you just got thrown under the bus — and it's a VW biodiesel."
Colbert ended with an alternate interpretation of Trump's claim that he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue in Manhattan and still not lose votes, describing it as less a brag than a cry for help. "Donald Trump can't really want to be president — it's the hardest job in the world," Colbert said. And if the job can turn President Obama old and grey in eight years, "imagine what Donald Trump will look like." His depiction of what President Trump would look like in 2024 is truly disturbing, and you can see it in the video below. Peter Weber
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