Stephen Colbert wonders about Trump's Confederate statue fixation, offers a solution

Stephen Colbert has some ideas about Confederate statues
(Image credit: Screenshot/YouTube/The Late Show With Stephen Colbert)

Despite the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend as various flavors of white supremacists marched ostensibly to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, cities are picking up the pace in removing Confederate statues, Stephen Colbert noted on Tuesday's Late Show. One statue was torn down by protesters in Durham, North Carolina, on Monday, but most are being removed legally. "No word yet on where the statues will end up, but I'm guessing Steve Bannon's summer home," Colbert joked. Then he offered another idea, through an in-house ad for "Kopelski Twins Confederate Statue Modification Service," the "racist erasers."

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Peter Weber, The Week US

Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.