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The Late Show<\/i>\u00a0host\u00a0Stephen Colbert<\/b>\u00a0used his\u00a0new Emmy trophy<\/a>\u00a0as both a thank-you note to viewers and a prop to troll President\u00a0Donald Trump\u2019s<\/b> bitter grievance for having never won one.<\/p>\n Beginning his opening monologue on Tuesday night, Colbert didn\u2019t waste any time celebrating his win.<\/p>\n \u201cLadies and gentlemen, welcome one and all. Welcome to The Late Show<\/em>. I\u2019m your host, Steven Colbert,\u201d he began, as the crowd roared in applause, before pausing to lift his Emmy. \u201cI\u2019m sorry. I meant to say welcome to the Emmy Award-winning Late Show<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n The crowd cheered in standing applause, chanting his name.<\/p>\n As the audience settled, the host continued into a lengthy thank you speech, sharing his appreciation for his \u201cincredible\u201d and \u201chard-working\u201d 200-person production team, who keep the nightly broadcast rolling.<\/p>\n \u201cThe stage crew, production staff, talent, segment, editors, the band, whole, field, control room, props, graphics, research, footage, digital, accounting, legal, wardrobe, makeup, security, maintenance, assistance, and interns,\u201d he listed on, before also thanking viewers.<\/p>\n Then came the punchline: \u201cSpeaking of Emmys, uh, Donald Trump doesn\u2019t have one.\u201d<\/p>\n Indeed, Trump\u2019s history with the Emmys is long, bitter, and loudly aired<\/a>.<\/p>\n NBC ran The Apprentice<\/em> for seven seasons from 2004 to 2010 before spinning it off into Celebrity Apprentice<\/em>. The series received Emmy nominations for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program in 2004 and 2005, but lost out both years to The Amazing Race<\/em>.<\/p>\n For years, Trump lamented that The Apprentice<\/em> was snubbed, complaining he was cheated out of the award and insisting he deserved it \u201cmany times over.\u201d<\/p>\n Taking to social media at the time, he resentfully blasted the awards as \u201ca con game\u201d and has lambasted the show as \u201call politics\u201d with \u201cno credibility\u201d for years.<\/p>\n Colbert\u2019s jab lands after Trump celebrated<\/a> The Late Show\u2019s<\/em> cancellation, announced in July. The show is set to conclude its run in May 2026.<\/p>\n The post Stephen Colbert Uses Emmy Win to Troll Trump\u2019s Bitter Apprentice Grudge<\/a> first appeared on Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Late Show\u00a0host\u00a0Stephen Colbert\u00a0used his\u00a0new Emmy trophy\u00a0as both a thank-you note to viewers and a prop to troll President\u00a0Donald Trump\u2019s bitter grievance for having never won one. Beginning his opening monologue on Tuesday night, Colbert didn\u2019t waste any time celebrating his win. \u201cLadies and gentlemen, welcome one and all. Welcome to The Late Show. 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