Kennedy drops the hammer on 'best buds' Colbert and Obama, suggests pair should 'get a motel room'

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Kennedy drops the hammer on 'best buds' Colbert and Obama, suggests pair should 'get a motel room'
The Louisiana senator also mocked Colbert's ratings, saying his show was losing CBS $40M a year
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May 7, 2026 7:00pm EDT
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Obama has always been better at ‘pandering’ than ‘persuasion,’ Sen Kennedy says
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., discusses former President Barack Obama’s conversation with Stephen Colbert during which he criticized political prosecutions and praised NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani on ‘The Will Cain Show.’
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Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., unloaded on "best buds" Barack Obama and Stephen Colbert after their friendly sit-down aired on Tuesday and quipped during "The Will Cain Show" that the pair should get a "motel room."
Obama sat down for an interview with late-night comedian Stephen Colbert at his new Presidential Center in Chicago, ahead of the comedian's show ending in mid-May. The former president made veiled critiques of President Donald Trump, praised New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, opined on the state of both political parties, and suggested Colbert would be a bette r president than Trump.
"It's no news flash that President Obama does not like Republicans. It occurred to me that he might have been pandering to Mr. Colbert and his audience, all seven of them. President Obama has always been, better at pandering than persuasion, that wa…

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