Stephen Colbert gleefully fires back at Trump calling him a 'filthy,' 'no-talent guy': 'I won!'

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May 12, 2017 3:33 PM

"Late Show" host Stephen Colbert took President Donald Trump's insults about his show in stride, and he fired back at the president.

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Stephen Colbert didn't seem troubled while addressing President Donald Trump's insults directed toward him in a recent interview.

"The president of the United States has personally come after me and my show," Colbert said on Thursday night's episode of CBS' "The Late Show." "And there's only one thing to say: Yay!"

In an interview with Time magazine, Trump said Colbert's "show was dying" before the host began to focus on criticizing the president. Trump also referred to Colbert's recent inflammatory insults directed at Trump that led some to call for Colbert's firing and an FCC investigation, saying Colbert was a "no-talent guy" and "what he says is filthy."

"Mr. Trump, there is a lot you don't understand, but I never thought one of those things would be show business," Colbert continued in a sharp, punchy response to Trump's comments. "Don't you know I have been trying for a year to get you to say my name? And you were very restrained, admirably restrained. But now, you did it. I won!"

Colbert conceded that he did "occasionally use adult language," but he said "I do it in public, instead of in the privacy of an 'Access Hollywood' bus," a reference to the video that leaked before the 2016 election showing Trump lewdly boasting about his sexual advances toward women.

Colbert also shot back at Trump's statements that Colbert's ratings went up when he went harder on the president: "It's almost as if the majority of Americans didn't want you to be president."

And correcting Trump's claim that his appearance on "The Late Show" was its highest-rated episode, the host said former presidential candidate Jeb Bush's appearance got higher ratings than Trump's.

"That's right. You got beat by 'low-energy Jeb,'" Colbert said. (Bush appeared on Colbert's debut episode of "The Late Show.")

But after all that, Colbert did offer Trump a solution to their conflict.

"Since all of my success is clearly based on talking about you, if you really want to take me down, there's an obvious way," Colbert said. "Resign."

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