Colbert concluded that the stock market sink must mean the “deep state” isn’t actually the all-powerful shadowy entity some make it out to be.

WATCH😳: Stephen Colbert kicked off his Late Show monologue on Thursday by staring into the camera and pleading with “the cabal of financial and governmental elites who pull all the strings behind the scenes” to intervene as President Donald Trump announced reciprocal tariffs. Colbert