‘The Late Show’s Stephen Colbert Thanks President Biden For Exiting Presidential Race By Retiring His Aviators

Stephen Colbert is saying thank you to President Biden in his own special way.

The Late Show host is officially retiring his aviators (and jokes about Biden being old).

Colbert is one of the only late-night hosts on tonight as the majority of them including The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart and Late Night’s Seth Meyers to react to the historic news that President Biden is not running for re-election.

“To honor this great President, tonight, I have officially retired my Joe Biden aviators. They will reside there on my shelf forever in a place of honor, next to Captain America’s shield. Those aviators did the hardest job of all. They made it seem like I had a Joe Biden impression,” he said.

The other thing that Colbert promised to retire? His ‘President Biden is old’ jokes. “They’re starting to get tired anyway, just like Joe Biden,” he said. “That was the last one, I swear. Now I’m going to unretire them to use on Donald Trump.”

Unfortunately, Colbert joked that he does not yet have a Kamala Harris impression so “she’s wearing aviators too”. “We’re working on it,” he added.

The comedian said that he’s going to miss Biden, who appeared on The Late as Vice President in September 2015. “On this very program… I encouraged then Vice President Biden to run. He ignored me for five years, then he did it, and I believe he has been a great President. He steered this country out of a horrific pandemic. He saved he saved countless lives by encouraging people to get vaccinated. He brought the economy back. He rallied our allies. He reasserted America’s place in the world stage and most inspiring of all at no time was he Donald Trump,” he added.