Stephen Colbert Slams Nancy Mace With NSFW Addition To Her 'Scarlet Letter' Shirt
Stephen Colbert suggested another piece of fashion for GOP Rep. Nancy Mace to showcase alongside the “Scarlet Letter”-inspired T-shirt she wore as a stunt on Capitol Hill Tuesday.
The “Late Show” host took a swipe at the South Carolina Republican during his show Wednesday after she rocked a shirt with a red letter “A” on it. Mace donned the shirt after facing criticism for her vote to oust Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) as House speaker.
“I’m wearing the scarlet letter after the week that I just had, last week, being a woman up here and being demonized for my vote and for my voice,” said Mace, referencing the Nathaniel Hawthorne novel in which a woman becomes pregnant and wears a scarlet letter as punishment.
“OK, that’s a no, no, that’s not ― the ‘A’ just does not make sense, unless you see the guy she was standing next to,” Colbert quipped before showing an edited image of Mace standing next to someone with a shirt that read “-HOLE.”
He later launched into another dig at Mace, comparing her look to that of one popular musical rodent.
“She looks way less Hester Prynne and way more Alvin Chipmunk,” he joked.
You can catch more of Colbert’s monologue in the clip below.
CORRECTION: A previous version of this article incorrectly said the protagonist of “The Scarlet Letter” was unmarried.
