“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert on Friday mocked President Trump’s recent string of anti-Muslim retweets and asked the United Kingdom to “take us back.”
In his opening monologue, Colbert addressed Trump’s rebuke of British Prime Minister Theresa May in a tweet to stop focusing on him, rather than radical Islamic terrorism, after she called his recent anti-Muslim retweets “wrong.”
Colbert told May: “Don’t believe him.”
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“England, we need your help,” he snarkily added. “Take us back. We’ll be good. We’ll even drink tea.”
The anti-Muslim videos, the legitimacy and context of which are in question, were first shared by the controversial far-right British group, “Britain First.”
