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Welcome, my friends, in here, out there all around the world to the late show.

I'm your host Stephen Colbert.

We are back in, we are back in the friendly confines of the Ed Sullivan after having a little

bit of a break. And I'm more tired than when I left. Let me explain. Our nation is like a beautiful

pastry spread of freedom and opportunity.

And yesterday, I got a close-up look at one of the donuts that Trump has been licking.

The Kennedy Center down in Washington, D.C.

I was there last night as one of a cavalcade

of comedy compadres honoring our dear friend

the hilariously lanky Conan O'Brien,

who received the Mark Twain Prize for his career as a riverboat gambler.

Now, all the presenters, all the presenters were amazing.

Sarah Silverman, John Mulaney, a haunted sea captain who turned out to be David Letterman.

And it was a great night full of life and love and laughs. But I got to say, the mood down there in D.C., pretty grim.

Especially at the Kennedy Center itself, where Trump recently appointed himself the chairman of the Kennedy Center.

Last week, he held his first official meeting with all of his hand-picked flunkies who he pointed

to the board, so he knows they're all 100% loyal to him, and they recorded it and leaked

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