Last night (November 5), an emotional Stephen Colbert broke down while delivering a monologue on The Late Show regarding President Donald Trump's unfounded claims over the pending presidential election results.
Speaking from the White House on Thursday, President Trump said that - regardless of the determined outcome of the election - he was the real winner.
Listen to President Trump's speech on the election results:The incumbent president claimed that he had been cheated in this election, criticized the polls, and declared himself to be the winner of the 2020 election.
Trump told reporters: "If you count the legal votes, I easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us."
He proceeded to make unfounded claims of voter and election fraud, saying that he had actually won in the states where he has yet to be declared victorious.
On his show, Colbert criticized Trump for attempting to undermine the outcome of a free and fair election.
Check out the tearful monologue below:"The president came out into the White House briefing room and lied for 15 minutes," he said.
"Just nonsensical stuff about illegal vote dumps and corrupt election officials and secret democratic counting cabals, and I don't know, long-form birth certificates, probably," Colbert added.
Referring to the 270 Electoral College votes a presidential candidate would need to win, Colbert said: "It's all the same. And if you did not know that Joe Biden was getting close to 270, Donald Trump just provided all the proof you will ever need."
Harking back to Trump's 2016 campaign, Colbert remarked: "So we all knew he would do this."
The host - visibly emotional - then started to break down saying: "What I didn't know is that it would hurt so much."
Colbert continued: "I didn't expect this to break my heart. For him to cast a dark shadow on our most sacred right from the briefing room in the White House - our house, not his - that is devastating."
"He is the president of the United States," he added. "That office means something, and that office should have some shred of decency."
"Republicans have to speak up. All of them," he said. "Because for evil to succeed, all that is necessary is for good men to do nothing."
"You only survived this up until now because a lot of voters didn't want to believe everything that was obvious to so many of us, that Donald Trump is a fascist."
Colbert then said Republicans need to "get off the Trump train" as "it's not a passenger train, and he'll load you on it sometime, too."