The Late Show host Stephen Colbert had a field day mocking President Donald Trump for finally getting his peace prize, the “definitely-heard-of-it-before” Architect of Peace honor from the Richard Nixon Foundation.
The jab comes weeks after MAGA’s failed push for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, which instead went to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado for “advancing democratic rights.”
Trump’s allies had argued he deserved the honor for brokering a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas earlier this year even though entries for the 2025 award closed in January.
After the White House shared images of Trump proudly receiving the award, in the form of a small statue of former President Richard Nixon, Colbert just couldn’t resist roasting him.
“So close!” he exclaimed, comparing it to winning an “Oscar Mayer weiner hot dog.”
The Nixon Foundation said the award recognizes those who embody Nixon’s “lifelong goal of shaping a more peaceful world.” But Colbert wasn’t buying it and cited the controversial records of some past recipients as his proof – comically adding in Smurfs villain Gargamel and Jigsaw, the brutal killer in the Saw film franchise.
“Pretty bold choice to give a peace prize to [Henry] Kissinger, [Dick]Cheney, [Donald] Rumsfeld, and [George W.] Bush,” he said. “That’s like giving a Latin Grammy to Kissinger, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Bush.”
The comedian used that to bridge into an attack on Trump’s “war on immigrants” and blasted his “ICE squads terrorizing communities all over the country.”
Watch above via CBS.
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