Watch: Stephen Colbert Compares Trump Supporters To ‘Radicals’ in Afghanistan

Stephen Colbert, host of CBS’ “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” is comparing supporters of former President Donald Trump who stormed the U.S. Capitol to militants in Afghanistan. On Monday, Colbert defended the…

Bradley CortrightAug 17, 20212 min read

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During remarks at the White House on Monday, President Joe Bidendefended the decision to withdraw from Afghanistan as he asked, “How many more generations of America’s daughters and sons would you have me send to fight Afghans — Afghanistan’s civil war, when Afghan troops will not?”

He later added, “American troops cannot and should not be fighting in a war and dying in a war that Afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves.”

Additionally, he argued that there “was never a good time to withdraw U.S. forces.”

Colbert is not the only person to compare those who stormed the Capitol to militants.

Daniel Hodges, a Washington, D.C., Metropolitan police officer who helped defend the Capitol, said that those who stormed the building are “terrorists.”

Though he acknowledged that “I can see why someone would take issue with the title of terrorist. It’s gained a lot of notoriety in our vocabulary in the past few decades, and we’d like to believe that no, that couldn’t happen here. No domestic terrorism. No homegrown threats.”

Biden has received bipartisan criticism for his execution of the withdrawal from Afghanistan as images and videos surfaced of Afghans clinging to the sides of U.S. military jets trying to escape the country.