The world observed International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, marking the day the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp was liberated and honoring the six million Jews and others who were killed at the hands of the Nazi regime. It appears late-night host Stephen Colbert missed that solemn occasion, and instead chose to use his monologue to make light of the Holocaust.
Stephen Colbert: “Do not compare ICE or Border Patrol agents to the Nazis. That’s an unfair comparison. The Nazis were willing to show their faces.” pic.twitter.com/4meqDVAk6S
— Marco Foster (@MarcoFoster_) January 27, 2026
Such a comparison is not only meant to fan the flames of unrest and to encourage attacks against ICE and Border Patrol agents, but it's also an insult to every person, Jewish and otherwise, who died at places like Auschwitz-Birkenau. Those were innocent men, women, and children targeted because of their religion. They broke no laws and were systematically murdered by the Third Reich.
ICE and Border Patrol are arresting criminal illegal aliens and deporting them. DHS has also been offering illegal aliens money and a free plane ride home if they self-deport.
Only Colbert would be so mired in TDS that he refuses to acknowledge this distinction.
The libs are now complementing Nazis while excusing away a senate candidate in Maine that has literal Nazi tattoos. Know where we are .
— Jim Muessig (@JimMuessig) January 28, 2026
It's (D)ifferent when they do it.
— Jeffrey MacGinnis (@Jeff_MacG) January 29, 2026
It's always good to throw that mask insanity back in their faces.
This is one of the most despicable things ever said on national TV. Regardless of how small Colbert's audience is, to say something like that is reprehensible - and completely immoral.
— גיא דוד - Guy David (@DBCWriter) January 29, 2026
Anyone with a moral spine and a brain can answer why the Nazis were willing to show their…
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Anyone with a moral spine and a brain can answer why the Nazis were willing to show their faces.
Can anyone in that audience take a guess, instead of yukking it up and not using their brains?
Why don't authoritarians in other countries today wear masks? Or Communist regimes of the past or, yes, the paramilitary death squads and the Gestapo of the Nazi regime?
BECAUSE THEY KILLED YOU WERE YOU STOOD, Stephen Colbert, you sickening, disgusting, pathetic man.
To compare ICE to evil authoritarian regimes of the past and present is a complete and utter moral failure on Colbert's part, and to those on the left who follow in his footsteps.
The ONLY reason, the one and only reason, why law enforcement involved with ICE and ICE itself wear masks is to prevent being doxxed by far left hordes of brainwashed useful idiots and those evil enough or stupid enough to wish or do harm on these LEOs and their families.
This guy can't get off the air soon enough!
Colbert's contract runs out in May, and his last show will reportedly air on May 21. Nothing of value will be lost.
“The Nazis were better than ICE” whitewashes the Nazis to the extreme and is in some ways a form of Holocaust denialism https://t.co/gBgkYVWHlt
— Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸 (@JerryDunleavy) January 29, 2026
It absolutely is a form of Holocaust denialism. Where's the ADL on this?
This might be one of the worst things anyone has ever said on TV.
— AP (@Average_NY_Guy) January 29, 2026
ICE is arresting immigrants with court orders to leave. The Nazis murdered 6 million Jews for no reason whatsoever. Yet according this unfunny man, ICE is worse. https://t.co/XK9FYyGjNj
It's certainly among the worst things ever said on TV.
I see that with the end of Colbert’s show, he’s on a race to the moral bottom. https://t.co/wsSpXNmsxT
— Dr. Logan Levkoff (@LoganLevkoff) January 29, 2026
It appears that's a race he's going to win, too.