RL Stephen Colbert calls out JD Vance’s “cowardly dodge” after racist Young Republican messages go public
Stephen Colbert has slammed JD Vance after the vice president responded to the release of racist messages from a Young Republicans group chat.
Stephen Colbert tore into the vice president’s response (Image: CBS)
On his October 15 show, Stephen called out the 41-year-old for supposedly downplaying the offensive messages, as Vance said, “Kids do stupid things, especially young boys,” despite people in the chat being aged up to 40 years old.
The messages, of which there are reported to be 251 offensive ones, said remarks such as, “I love Hitler,” “Everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber,” and “I’d go to the zoo if I wanted to watch monkeys play ball,” when talking about an NBA playoff game. The messages were leaked after Fox News turned on Vance.
During his show, Stephen slammed Vance’s comments, who first defended the group chat on X, and then again on a new episode of The Charlie Kirk Show.
Vice President JD Vance during a press conference in Washington DC (Image: Anadolu via Getty Images)
Speaking about his remarks, Colbert said, “It’s true. When I was in Cub Scouts, about 10 years old, me and my troop invaded Poland.”
“One problem with Vance’s logic here about the young boys… Despite their name, Young Republicans, to be a member of the group, you have to be at least 18, and some members are up to 40 years old,” he continued. “Because nothing says young like getting your first routine colonoscopy.”
Colbert then slammed the “I love Hitler” message, remarking, “This one’s tough to spin,” adding, “‘What? I was talking about Pete Hitler and his honky-tonk bluegrass band. You’re telling me there’s another Hitler? What did he do?’”
The late-night host also mentioned the number of messages leaked, saying “2,900 pages of texts” were seen by Politico, who broke the story.
“These Young Republicans also text each other an array of slurs, jokes about enslavement, disparaging comments about Jews, women, Black people and other minorities,” Colbert explained.”And they knew it was bad because one of them also texted, ‘If we ever had a leak of this chat, we would be cooked.’”
The 61-year-old then specifically mocked one of the Young Republicans, Bobby Walker, who spoke out after the texts were released. The New York Young Republican Chairman said, “Portions of the chat may have been altered, taken out of context, or otherwise manipulated,” to which Colbert responded with, “That’s not an apology. That’s like saying, ‘Your honor, I plead guilty… to looking great in this orange jumpsuit.”
