“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert wasn’t too impressed by President Donald Trump’s latest photo op on Thursday as he brought back the Presidential Fitness Test for public-school students.
The event featured a number of celebrity athletes including Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker and NFL Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor.
“An important side note: Taylor is also a registered sex offender,” Colbert pointed out.
Taylor was arrested in 2010 and charged with felony statutory rape in a case involving a 16-year-old girl. He said the girl told him she was 19, and the following year pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct and soliciting a prostitute, both misdemeanors, and had to register as a sex offender.
Colbert mockingly congratulated Trump on having Taylor by his side at the White House.
“Mr. President, that is a brilliant way to distance yourself from the whole Epstein scandal,” Colbert said, then broke out his impression of the president trying to steer the conversation away from his former friend, the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“I fully renounce everything Jeff did ’cuz now I’m hanging out with a completely different registered sex offender,” Colbert said in his Trump voice. “And we’re just here to make sure our teenagers are very fit.”
The audience groaned.
“I agree,” Colbert said in response.
See more in his Thursday night monologue: