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November 27, 2025 – New York, NY
The Ed Sullivan Theater has hosted legends from Elvis to Elmo, but last night, it became ground zero for a comedic coup d’Ă©tat. What started as a cheeky riff on Donald Trump’s latest broadside against “Harvard elites” spiraled into a full-frontal assault that had Stephen Colbert channeling his inner prosecutor—complete with a prop “SAT card” that lit social media ablaze and, reportedly, sent shockwaves straight to Mar-a-Lago. In an era where late-night feels more like therapy than TV, Colbert didn’t just poke the bear; he handed it a mirror and a report card. The result? A segment that’s less comedy sketch and more cultural thermonuclear device, racking up 12 million views overnight and trending harder than a solar eclipse.

The Fuse: Trump’s Harvard Haymaker Lights the Powder Keg
It all ignited earlier that day on Truth Social, where the 79-year-old provocateur unleashed a tirade against Ivy League “snobs” during a rally stop in Scranton. “These Harvard grads think they’re so smart—running our country into the ground with their woke nonsense,” Trump bellowed to cheers, pivoting to his perennial flex: “I got into Wharton—no Harvard needed. Total genius!” The jab, laced with that signature blend of resentment and self-mythology, was catnip for cable news and X warriors. But Colbert, nursing a post-Thanksgiving scotch and a grudge against unchecked bluster, saw opportunity in the outrage.
Cue the Late Show monologue: lights dim, band hushed, Colbert striding out in a Wharton-red tie, that devilish grin masking the scalpel beneath. “Folks,” he began, pausing for the crowd’s anticipatory hush, “Trump loves bragging about being a genius… so why don’t we revisit the ‘genius years’?” The theater, packed with New Yorkers who’d sooner root for the Jets than Trump, leaned in like kids at a ghost story. Then—boom—Colbert produced it: a comically oversized, yellowed “1965 SAT relic,” complete with faux-scroll edges and a cartoonish Trump teen photo (pompadour optional). “Ladies and gentlemen, straight from the College Board’s vault—or my writer’s room floor—behold the ancient, dust-covered truth!”

The reveal was pure theater: Verbal: 410 (out of 800, pre-1995 scale). Math: 560. Total: 970—below the era’s national average of 980. “Trump mocked Harvard grads,” Colbert deadpanned, waving the card like a matador’s cape, “but somehow still manages to lose a fight he picked himself. I mean, 410 verbal? That’s not a score—that’s what you get for arguing with the English section!” The audience detonated—screams, not laughs; chaos, not chuckles—as Colbert milked every line: “Math at 560? Kid, that’s barely enough to calculate your daddy’s donation to Fordham. And verbal? With that, he could’ve aced ‘What’s a synonym for ‘covfefe’?'” Fans are already dubbing it “late-night warfare disguised as homework review,” a four-minute evisceration blending Colbert Report bite with TikTok virality.
What makes it sting? The prop’s plausibility. No verified Trump SAT scores exist—sealed tighter than Epstein’s black book, thanks to Michael Cohen’s 2019 testimony about threatening letters to schools and the College Board. Rumors swirl—from niece Mary Trump’s claim of a paid test-taker to biographers’ whispers of mediocrity—but Colbert’s “leak” weaponizes the void, turning absence into ammunition. “It’s satire with a subpoena,” one viewer tweeted, echoing the segment’s graphic: Trump’s score vs. Harvard’s 1965 average (1,400+). “No wonder he calls it ‘fake news’—his brain’s been in extra credit denial since high school.”
The Backlash Blast: Mar-a-Lago Meltdown Meets Meme Tsunami

Behind the velvet ropes, the punch landed like a gut shot. Insiders paint a Mar-a-Lago scene straight out of The Godfather rejects: Trump, mid-brisket, fixated on a Fox replay when the bit aired. “Fraud! Total hoax—low-energy loser!” he reportedly roared, pacing the gilded veranda, phone blazing with directives to allies. One source, whispering from the staff kitchen, claims the tirade lasted 45 minutes: “He wanted FCC fines for CBS, Hannity on speed-dial, even floated suing the College Board—again.” By 2 a.m., Truth Social lit up: “Colbert’s a DISGRACE—fake card, fake ratings! My scores? CLASSIFIED BRILLIANCE. Harvard? OVERRATED SNOB FACTORY! #WitchHuntMAGA.” Surrogates scrambled: MTG live-tweeting “deep-state props,” while Elon Musk X-ed a cryptic “Colbert’s got jokes, but Trump’s got rockets. Scores? Irrelevant—wins matter.”
The internet? A bonfire of vanities. #TrumpSATFail trended worldwide, amassing 8.5 million posts in hours—memes of Trump bubbling in a No. 2 pencil (“When you guess A for everything”), his scowl on a dunce cap, or photoshopped into Back to the Future‘s DeLorean with “970 MPH.” X lit up with generational glee: Gen Z dubbing it “the roast that redacted his ego,” while boomers reminisced about Cohen’s threats. Late-night rivals piled on—Kimmel quipping, “Stephen just did what Trump couldn’t: score below average and still win.” Ratings spiked 40%, proving once more: in the Trump era, satire isn’t escape—it’s engagement.
The Deeper Cut: Why This Roast Resonates Like a Report Card from Hell
This wasn’t Colbert’s first Trump tango—he’s skewered the man since 2016, from “Sharpiegate” to “Covfefe”—but the SAT stunt slices deeper, tapping a vein of unresolved American anxiety: merit vs. money, brains vs. bluster. Trump’s Wharton boasts have long been a flashpoint, especially post-Cohen, when whispers of “someone else took the test” fueled fact-check frenzies. In a post-affirmative action world, where legacy admits and donor dollars dominate headlines, Colbert’s bit lands as cultural commentary: “Genius isn’t inherited—it’s earned, or at least bubbled in correctly.”
Pundits are split: CNN’s John King called it “a mirror to Trump’s opacity,” while Fox’s Dana Perino fumed, “Colbert’s not a comedian—he’s a partisan hitman.” But the real winner? The audience, gasping through guffaws, reminded that laughter is rebellion. As one X user posted amid the frenzy: “Trump built walls; Colbert just tore down his GPA.”
The Verdict: When Punchlines Punch Through Power
In the coliseum of cable news, Colbert emerged not just unscathed, but sharpened—a reminder that wit is the great disruptor, turning taunts into teachable (and hilarious) moments. Trump’s camp threatens “big reveals” on his “real IQ” Friday, but as Colbert signed off: “Donald, if scores don’t matter, why hide ’em? Must be classified… under ‘F.'” The segment’s already “disappearing” from conservative feeds, but the damage? Eternal.
Watch the full detonation here—before the spin doctors grade it on a curve. In late-night’s endless election cycle, this was the plot twist: America laughed, Trump fumed, and the walls? They’re shaking.
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