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The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

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🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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The president who said his policies would never change changed his tariff policy today, after telling the nation to chill out, but not before China struck back with a threat to deny American filmmakers access to their lucrative market. And between DOGE shutting down Social Security offices and phone lines, and RFK Jr.’s push to discredit vaccines and remove fluoride from drinking water, President Trump’s team is destroying America at lightning speed. Emmy-winner Sheryl Lee Ralph joins Stephen to celebrate the upcoming season finale of her hit show “Abbot Elementary,” and reveals what she has planned for her 20th wedding anniversary. Watch the season finale of “Abbot Elementary” next Wednesday on Hulu. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Please have a seat, my friends. Very kind. Welcome to the Late Show. I'm your host, Stephen Colbert.
0:10.0	Folks, it is unpredictable. It's a very unpredictable time for our country, for the world,
0:18.0	and I pride myself on keeping a cool head and stormy seas. So I want to tell you, in a very measured tone, a little news item I saw today,
0:25.6	the Dow is back, baby. We're rich!
0:28.6	We're rich's archduke's caviar and cruegrants for all my friends.
0:33.6	Tell Gatsby and Daisy to crack the good champagne and crank up the jazz,
0:37.7	because we're going to span, span, span.
0:42.3	Because this afternoon, after days of historic market losses,
0:49.5	thanks to Trump's random-ass tariffs,
0:52.1	the Dow skyrocketed nearly 3,000 points.
0:55.7	And you know, the old saying, whatever goes up must continue to go up forever.
1:00.9	So why the surprise money party?
1:04.5	Well, because just after 1 p.m. today, the mad emperor of global trade decreed,
1:14.4	based on the fact that more than 75 countries have called representatives of the United States to negotiate a solution.
1:20.3	I have authorized a 90-day pause
1:23.1	and a substantially lowered reciprocal tariff dot, dot, dot, dot of 10%.
1:29.9	Well, thank goodness.
1:32.3	Thank goodness that at 1.18 p.m. today, Donald Trump made a decision that at the last minute
1:38.6	saved our nation from a previous decision by Donald Trump.
1:44.1	I mean, thank God. I mean, wow. Thank God. He is there. Thank God. from a previous decision by Donald Trump.
1:45.5	I mean, thank God.
1:46.9	I mean, thank God.
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