“Wow! That is a weird way to find out I’m in Trump’s orbit. I didn’t know that,” Colbert joked.
He then turned to other possible replacement picks including Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and former Pentagon official Elbridge Colby.
“Who, from the name alone, I have to assume is a block of cheese from the 1800s,” quipped Colbert on the latter’s name.
“And if none of those people work out, Trump could always turn to the anchor of Fox’s 3 a.m. panel show, ‘Stars and Gripes with Ardsley Blondeteeth.’”
Check out more of his Wednesday night monologue.