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\u201cLate Show\u201d host Stephen Colbert<\/a> said on Wednesday that President Donald Trump<\/a>, his administration and Republicans<\/a> in Congress were doing everything they could to avoid calling the conflict in Iran a war<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n But, they were all undermined by a single person: Trump himself. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Colbert pointed to a White House memo with talking points telling the president\u2019s allies not to use the word \u201cwar.\u201d Instead, they were told to call it \u201ctargeted major combat operations.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cSo, it\u2019s worse than a war,\u201d Colbert said. \u201cIt\u2019s a war that got a thesaurus for Christmas.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n But Colbert spotted two moments where Trump used the very word they\u2019ve all been trying to avoid \u2015 including this one: <\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cYou know you\u2019re not supposed to say it, but that just puts the word in your brain,\u201d Colbert said. \u201cIt\u2019s like when your boss has a huge pimple on his nose, and you\u2019re like, \u2018Don\u2019t talk about the pimple,\u2019 but as soon as he walks in, you go, \u2018Hi, Mr. Pimple!\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n See more in his Wednesday night monologue: <\/strong><\/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.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cLate Show\u201d host Stephen Colbert said on Wednesday that President Donald Trump, his administration and Republicans in Congress were doing everything they could to avoid calling the conflict in Iran a war. But, they were all undermined by a single person: Trump himself. Colbert pointed to a White House memo with talking points telling the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2314817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[22389,447857,22653,22893],"class_list":["post-2314816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran-war","tag-stephen-colbert","tag-white-house"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Stephen-Colbert-Spots-The-Moment-Trump-Undermined-His-Own-Talking.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2314816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2314818,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314816\/revisions\/2314818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2314816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2314816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2314816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}