Stephen Colbert gets a new way to satirize Trump with 'Our Cartoon President'
PASADENA, Calif. - When Stephen Colbert was about 8, he wrote a letter to President Richard Nixon about an issue very dear to his heart.
"I said, 'My name is Stephen Colbert and I believe we should have a continental flag. Can we at least have a conversation about this?'" the host of "The Late Show" recalled during a recent trip to the West Coast. "We have national flags and state flags, why don't we have a continental flag?"
In return, Colbert received a book of photos of Nixon with children, "which you don't picture," he says. (Sadly, he no longer has the book.) A similar letter to Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau yielded no response, while a gracious staffer for Mexican President Luis Echeverria wrote back to say the idea had been floated at a recent cabinet meeting and "there was a lot of excitement" around it.
Forty-five years later, the nerdy youngster - or, as Colbert prefers to put it, "civically engaged" - who once
