You know things are looking serious when Donald Trump gives up on one of his patented cruel nicknames. On Monday, amid efforts to stem a blue wave from sweeping the midterm elections, the president told reporters that he no longer calls his former nemesis Ted Cruz—up for re-election in Texas—“Lyin’ Ted.” Instead, Trump is opting for something far gentler: “Beautiful Ted.” When late-night hosts hit the airwaves that evening, they were predictably merciless—particularly Jimmy Kimmel, who made an entire fake campaign ad filled with old clips of the president mocking Cruz. Unsurprisingly, Kimmel is personally rooting for Cruz’s opponent, Beto O’Rourke. “Imagine how hilarious it will be,” he said, “if Ted Cruz is forced to kiss his bully’s ass in front of the world, and then loses anyway.”

Then again, Kimmel said, a small part of him does feel for the guy. “That had to be the saddest phone call Ted Cruz ever had to make. Imagine if your neighbor insulted your wife’s face, and then you had to ask him to loan you a weed whacker. That’s Ted Cruz’s life right now.”

During his own Late Night monologue, Seth Meyers was more direct: “Dude, if that’s Beautiful Ted, then you’re Lyin’ Donald,” he quipped.

The Late Night host also returned to the subject of Beautiful Ted during his “Closer Look” segment: “You can call Ted Cruz a lot of things,” Meyers said, “but beautiful is not one of them. Ted Cruz once [took a picture with a butter cow, and the only thing that looked like it was melting was Ted Cruz.”

On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert couldn’t help but laugh at how Trump responded when asked if he regretted how he treated Cruz on the campaign trail. “I don’t regret anything, honestly,” the president said. “It all worked out very nicely.”

Colbert put on his best Trump voice: “Look, c’mon, you guys. It all worked out, and I won, and Ted Cruz’s dad never killed again! Although, I gotta say, I’m hearing troubling reports that he was seen at that consulate in Istanbul a few weeks ago.”

“Yeah, Beautiful Ted,” Colbert continued—adding once again, in the president’s voice, “Come to think of it, his father didn’t kill J.F.K.; his father had sex with J.F.K. Beautiful, beautiful sex.”

“Somewhere, Ted Nugent is weeping over his assault rifle,” the comedian concluded. “‘I thought I was Beautiful Ted.’”

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