Stephen Colbert was delighted by the November 10 cover of TIME Magazine, which featured a photograph of President Trump taken from an unflattering angle.

Trump himself complained about the photo on Truth Social, arguing that the picture might just be “the worst of all time.”

“He’s right,” Colbert said in his Tuesday monologue. “You got to hand it to him: it is.”

Colbert jokingly suggested some alternative AI-generated pictures that TIME could have used instead, including Trump “solving horse crimes,” where the president is dressed as a cowboy sheriff, or “the one where he has an extremely casual attitude towards highway safety,” where Trump is seen holding a guitar while riding a motorbike.

His last example–a real photograph–garnered shocked applause from the audience.

“You want a

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