Families worried about the red-blue split at their Thanksgiving dinner table on Thursday have a friend in Stephen Colbert.

TheLate Showhost used Wednesday nights show to provide a divided nation with some ground rules to survive Thanksgiving.

I love Thanksgiving, 75 percent of the time.

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But this is the 25 percent thats going to suck, Colbert said.

But can we get through this?

I believe we can.

Choke it down, and keep it down until the guests leave.

Remember, these are your relatives.

you’re free to pick your friends, but you cant pick your relatives.

Or evidently pick your President, thanks to the electoral college, he joked.