On Thursday, “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert took aim at President Donald Trump’s awkward moments during a recent speech on artificial intelligence.
Colbert played a clip where Trump awkwardly greeted tech leaders. “What a group of smart ones we have in front of me today. That’s about as good as it comes up here,” Trump said, pointing to his head. “The brain power. The greatest power of them all. The brain power.”
Then came the stumble. Trump tried to say “luminaries” but ended up saying “luminarieses.” The audience laughed, and Colbert joked, “Somebody’s ‘brain power’ is in low battery mode.”
Colbert also shared Trump’s dislike for the term “artificial intelligence,” quoting him: “I don’t like anything that’s artificial.” Given Trump’s well-known love for fast food and Diet Coke, Colbert found that hard to believe.
Doing his best Trump impression, Colbert said, “Nothing artificial for me. They harvest my dinner straight from the nugget bush, and then they milk the Diet Coke cow, OK? Gotta milk it every day or else they explode from the carbonation.”
In another clip, Trump compared the AI industry to a baby. “We have to grow that baby and let that baby thrive,” he said. “We can’t stop it. We can’t stop it.”
Colbert couldn’t resist: “Totally normal way to talk about baby. That’s why they sell those balloons that say, ‘It’s a boy and you can’t stop it. You can’t stop it.’”
Watch Colbert’s monologue from Thursday night below.
