Stephen Colbert joked Thursday that the alt-right is "covering their faces with hoods" to avoid being seen with Stephen Bannon.

“They’re so embarrassed of Bannon that a lot of the alt-right have started covering their faces with hoods,” he said. “They don’t want to be seen — turn off the lights, walk around with torches, they’re just so embarrassed.”

Colbert's joke references the white supremacist rally against the removal of Confederate statues in Charlottesville, Va., last summer while highlighting Bannon's new political problems.

Bannon has lost the support of President Trump Donald John TrumpHR McMaster says president's policy to withdraw troops from Afghanistan is 'unwise' Cast of 'Parks and Rec' reunite for virtual town hall to address Wisconsin voters Biden says Trump should step down over coronavirus response MORE and political donors since excerpts of the book “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” began circulating this week.

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Bannon is quoted in the book as describing the Trump Tower meeting arranged by Donald Trump, Jr., that brought campaign staff together with a Russian lawyer as “treasonous.”

That brought a rebuke from Trump, who said Bannon had "lost his mind" since leaving the White House.

And it provided plenty of fodder for Colbert, who frequently targets Bannon.

“In the past 24 hours alone, candidates he endorsed have abandoned him, he lost his biggest billionaire donor, even the alt-right is turning its back on Steve Bannon Stephen (Steve) Kevin BannonJuan Williams: Swamp creature at the White House Engineers say privately funded border wall is poorly constructed and set to fail: report Bannon and Maxwell cases display DOJ press strategy chutzpah MORE,” Colbert said.