“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert got a kick out of President Joe Biden’s response to Donald Trump, saying he wants to debate him “now.”

“Well, if I were him, I would want to debate me, too,” Biden said as he left a bubble tea shop with a cup of boba in his hand. “He’s got nothing else to do.”

Colbert was impressed by the snappy comeback.

“You go, Joe! That is actually the most badass you can sound,” he said, then added an important caveat: “while holding bubble tea.”

See more in his Tuesday night monologue:

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