Stephen Colbert peddles crass jokes about Trump after Epstein email fallout: ‘We know he’s got a taste for politics’

Stephen Colbert has used his latest episode of The Late Show to crack crass jokes about the infamous ‘Trump blowing Bubba’ email.

Colbert’s opening monologue was about the 20,000 emails from Epstein’s estate released on November 12 by the House Oversight Committee, which he said ‘made [Trump] look awful,’ because ‘Trump’s name appeared over 1,600 times.’

Later during the monologue, Colbert spent several minutes addressing the ‘Bubba’ email in particular. He said: ‘One of those emails captured the nation’s hearts and minds.

‘It was from Jeffrey Epstein‘s brother, Mark, who emailed Jeff in 2018, telling him to ask Jeff’s friend, Steve Bannon, ‘if Putin has the photos of Trump blowing Bubba?” 

The Late Show host then paused for several seconds as the audience laughed before he said: ‘OK, I don’t wanna talk about this. I mean, I try to be a good person. You know, I taught Sunday school. 

‘We have standards at The Late Show, but we also have a self-imposed mandate to talk a lot about what a lot of people are talking about, and for the past few days, a lot of people have been talking about this email.’

‘First of all, who is this lucky Bubba?’ Colbert quipped. 

He then explained that Bubba is a nickname for former president Bill Clinton before pulling out a prop resembling a neuralyzer, which is the device from the Men in Black franchise that erases people’s memories, and pretended to use it on himself and the audience.

On the most recent episode of The Late Show, host Stephen Colbert shared a few crass jokes he had prepared about the infamous ‘Trump blowing Bubba’ email

Colbert explained that Bubba is a nickname for former President Bill Clinton

People also speculated ‘Bubba’ was Clinton, because the former president had a profesional and personal relationship with Jeffery Epstein for years; Clinton denies having any knowledge of the crimes

After putting the prop away, Colbert said, ‘but our hot president-on-president fun was short-lived.’ 

He explained that Mark Epstein released a statement that said the email was ‘part of a humorous private exchange between two brothers… Any attempt to conflate that reference with President Clinton… misrepresents both the purpose and the tone of the original correspondence.’

‘Boo!’ Colbert then said before the audience echoed his jeer. ‘Boo, Mark! Let us have a silly one!’

The host then lamented being off the air when the story broke and said: ‘I never even got to do jokes like, ‘now we know how Trump got a taste for politics.” 

After pausing for explosive applause, laughter and cheers, Colbert made another joke: ‘This means the president’s recent legislation is technically Trump’s second Big Beautiful Bill.’

The host then clarified that ‘the truth is important – it was not Bill Clinton,’ before making a similar joke about other online speculation that ‘Bubba’ was actually Ghislaine Maxwell’s horse, which had the same name. 

He explained that a spokesperson for Mark Epstein clarified that ‘the 2018 message was not about a horse,’ before saying: ‘That’s actually too bad, it could have been Trump’s most stable relationship.’

Once again, Colbert emphasized, ‘none of this is true, I’m being told.’ But he added that ‘if people have to deny that you went, shall we say, Churchill Downs on a horse, you’ve already lost. I don’t know what you’ve lost, but its gone forever.’

Jeffrey Epstein’s brother, Mark, made a public statement that said the ‘Trump blowing Bubba’ email did not refer to Bill Clinton

Colbert said Trump’s name appeared 1,600 times in the Epstein estate emails released last week, which The Late Show host said ‘made [Trump] look awful’

The jokes in Colbert’s monologue were similar to another joke made by comedian Michael Che on the latest episode of Saturday Night Live. 

In the Weekend Update segment of the show, Che showed an edited clip from Trump’s January 6 speech that cut together words the president said to form the sentence: ‘Everybody knows I went down on Bill Clinton.’ 

The ‘Bubba’ email has also been the fodder for countless memes and jokes made by users on social media over the past week. 

People tied the nickname to Bill Clinton because the former president had a professional and social relationship with Epstein for years. Clinton has denied being close to Epstein, and his office has previously stated that he ‘knows nothing about the terrible crimes.’ 

Trump has called the emails a ‘hoax,’ and accused Democrats of releasing them ‘because they’ll do anything at all to deflect on how badly they’ve done on the Shutdown.’

All of the attention surrounding the Epstein estate emails released last week comes as the House of Representatives is set to vote on releasing the Justice Department’s Epstein files that have long been at the center of a political firestorm for Trump.

That vote could take place as soon as today, after Democratic Representative Adelita Grijalva was sworn in and provided the final signature needed to approve the discharge petition that would force a release of the Epstein files. 

House Speaker Mike Johnson refused to swear in Grijalva for the entire length of the shutdown, which delayed the vote for a month and a half. 

Trump has called the emails a ‘hoax,’ and accused Democrats of releasing them ‘because they’ll do anything at all to deflect on how badly they’ve done on the Shutdown’

The president changed his tune on releasing the Epstein files after it became clear that the vote would take place and the discharge petition would almost certainly pass

Once it became clear that the vote would happen and that the discharge petition would pass, Trump was all but forced to change his tune on releasing the files, which he had previously fought tooth-and-nail to prevent. 

On Sunday night, he called on House Republicans to pass the bill. Once it makes it through the house, which it is almost certain to do, the proposal will still have to be approved by the Senate and be signed by Trump. 

The Senate is likely to pass it too, as at that point it will have already made it through a Republican-controlled House, and it has the support of the MAGA base, most Republican voters and a majority of the American public. 

By Monday, Trump was saying ‘sure’ to signing the legislation if it makes it to his desk. 

But Trump has called for a new investigation into Democratic links to Epstein, which means the Department of Justice will have cover to hold back any files it chooses. As such, many could remain unsatisfied even if the files are finally technically released.