Late night television host Stephen Colbert is standing his ground against a social media backlash over a crude comment he made about President Donald Trump on his "Late Show" Monday night, and said Wednesday night he'd say it again.
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During Monday's monologue, Colbert addressed Trump's treatment of fellow CBS colleague John Dickerson during an interview when Trump cut off Dickerson and walked away. The TV show host made a vulgar remark about Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, sparking a call by some for CBS to fire Colbert.
“I’m your host Stephen Colbert… am I still the host,” Colbert said in his opening line of Wednesday’s monologue.
“I was a little upset with Donald Trump for upsetting a friend of mine so at the end of my monologue I had a few choice insults for the president in return -- I don’t regret that,” he said Wednesday.
“I would do it again.”
Colbert has battled a social media backlash before. His former show "The Colbert Report" sent out a controversial tweet in 2014 about the Washington Redskins owner and a charity he started for native Americans, but Colbert weathered the storm on that one, too.