CBS’s Stephen Colbert and his wife, Evie, joined PBS News Hour on Monday to promote their new cookbook and discuss his approach to The Late Show. Colbert told Amna Nawaz that he will not welcome “disingenuous” politicians to his show, but not only is that not true, “disingenuous” might as well be Colbert’s way of saying “Republicans.”
Nawaz asked, “Do you have red lines, like people you won’t talk to, like, would you have former President Trump on the show?”
Trying to provoke Trump, Colbert replied, “I’ve had him before, and he was kind of boring. So, no.”
On his Thursday show, Colbert would revel in Trump’s response to that line, but here he elaborated, “I don’t like to have people on the show who I don’t think are going to be honest agents of their own ideas. Politicians always represent an idea. So, if I think a…
