According to The Late Show, Donald Trump won’t be content until he completely ruins Christmas. Last night, Stephen Colbert aired an animated clip titled “Colbert’s Canceled Christmas: The Last Noel,” taking aim at Trump’s desire to ruin everything good.
The video, narrated by Nick Offerman, centers on “King Jag Bag” (a.k.a. Trump) as he cancels Christmas, sends ICE to the North Pole, destroys Santa’s workshop to build a new ballroom, and forces Santa into Alligator Elfcatraz. “No inch of that fellow was nice, kind, or thankful,” Offerman narrates. “From his weird rotting hand to his large swollen cankles.”
Santa and his elves find themselves locked up alongside the Sesame Street characters in a cell previously inhabited by “Donald Trump’s best and only friend Jeffrey Elfstein.” There, they discover the “Elfstein list,” which Santa uses to try to take the president down. When he fails, a group of popular children’s characters appear, call him a loser, and give Santa the power to boot Trump back to the White House.
Colbert has gone no holds barred against Trump after CBS pulled the plug on The Late Show earlier this year. In July, after the network announced the late-night show would come to an end in May 2026, Colbert noted, “But they made one mistake. They left me alive.”
The host acknowledged, to chants of his name from the crowd, that this means that “now for the next 10 months, the gloves are off.” He continued, “I can finally speak unvarnished truth to power and say what I really think about Donald Trump starting right now. I don’t really care for him. Doesn’t seem to have the skill set to be president. Just not a good fit.”
In November, Colbert addressed the unexpected cancellation of The Late Show, declining to say whether he thinks CBS axed the show due to political pressure from the Trump administration, but saying otherwise: “It’s a reasonable thing to think.”
