was not amused: 'Monologue on Trump and was the most ignorant and offensive hit piece I've seen. Is Colbert a paid Dem?'

Last year the Hollywood Reporter carried out a survey which suggested that Republicans had deserted the Late Show since Colbert - known for his acerbic imitation of a Right-wing TV host - took over from David Letterman.

Earlier Trump celebrated his 70th birthday in North Carolina and gave a vicious rebuttal to an afternoon of attacks lodged by Hillary Clinton and the president they both hope to replace.

Some viewers reacted angrily to Colbert's satire. Most of the reaction on Twitter to the sketch was positive but that may be because few Republicans watch the show

A few of the reactions came from Trump supporters, who called for Colbert toOAKLAND — A man who opened fire on three young Oakland children to avenge his friend’s death and killed an 8-year-old girl was sentenced to death on Wednesday in the first capital case in Alameda County in four years.

“I think the evidence is abundantly clear this defendant has no moral compass,” Judge Jeffery Horner said Wednesday morning at a sentencing hearing for Darnell Williams Jr., a 25-year-old from Oakland and Berkeley who has been in and out of the criminal justice system since he was a young child.

Williams did not show any emotional reaction and did not speak through the four-hour sentencing hearing largely attended by the family of Anthony Medearis, the 22-year-old Berkeley man he killed in 2013 eight weeks after he killed 8-year-old Alaysha Carradine.

Medearis’ aunt