{"id":2336025,"date":"2026-03-19T01:57:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T01:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2336025"},"modified":"2026-03-19T01:57:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T01:57:35","slug":"stephen-colbert-pounces-on-trumps-awkward-comment-about-his-son-eric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/stephen-colbert-pounces-on-trumps-awkward-comment-about-his-son-eric\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert Pounces On Trump\u2019s Awkward Comment About His Son Eric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Stephen Colbert zeroed in on an awkward <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/news\/topic\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> comment about his son Eric Trump during Tuesday\u2019s broadcast of \u201cThe Late Show.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Trump was speaking at the annual <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/videos\/president-trump-participates-in-the-friends-of-ireland-luncheon-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Friends of Ireland Luncheon\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69ba6f38e4b08059575e3d96\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/videos\/president-trump-participates-in-the-friends-of-ireland-luncheon-2\/\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"0\">Friends of Ireland Luncheon<\/a> on St. Patrick\u2019s Day when he boasted about his golf course in Ireland, which is run by the Trump Organization, where Eric plays a key role.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>But as Colbert noted, Eric \u201ccaught a stray\u201d from his dad during the address.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The president said: \u201cI love Ireland. In fact, we\u2019re going to have the Irish Open at a property that happens to be owned by yours truly. But I have nothing to do with it. I own it, but I have not \u2026 I don\u2019t even like to talk to my son.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>While Trump was likely referring to his claim that he isn\u2019t involved in his family business due to conflicts of interest, Colbert couldn\u2019t resist. He jumped into character as Eric Trump and imagined him leaving a voicemail for his father:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cHello, Dad. Dad. Dad. It\u2019s Eric again. I just want to let you know the golf course is going great but I did get caught in a sand trap. And the more I move, the more I sink. Please call me back. Again, this is Eric. E. R. I. Kuh.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Watch Colbert\u2019s full monologue here:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Colbert zeroed in on an awkward Donald Trump comment about his son Eric Trump during Tuesday\u2019s broadcast of \u201cThe Late Show.\u201d Trump was speaking at the annual Friends of Ireland Luncheon on St. Patrick\u2019s Day when he boasted about his golf course in Ireland, which is run by the Trump Organization, where Eric plays [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2336026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[22389,22653],"class_list":["post-2336025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-donald-trump","tag-stephen-colbert"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Stephen-Colbert-Pounces-On-Trumps-Awkward-Comment-About-His-Son.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336025","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=2336025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2336027,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336025\/revisions\/2336027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2336026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2336025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2336025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2336025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}