NEW YORK: The nation’s highest-profile congressional lobbyist snuck up behind Stephen Colbert on the CBS “Late Show,” willing even to wear a Donald Trump wig to get his point across.

Thursday’s appearance was the second time this week Jon Stewart returned to late-night television to push Congress to approve more funding to treat people sickened by working in the rubble of the World Trade Center following the Sept. 11 attacks. The funnyman even interrupted Late Show host Stephen Colbert’s monologue.

After listening to Stewart make his case Colbert told the former The Daily Show host that if he wanted to get his messages across these days, he’d have to bring on the “Trump.”

“No one is going to listen to you unless you, I don’t know how to put this, ‘Trump’ it up a little bit. The media won’t pay attention to anything at all unless you’re Donald Trump,” Colbert told Stewart.

A wig and a bag of Cheetos later, Stewart launched into another imitation of the Republican presidential race frontrunner.

“These 9/11 first responders are the most top notch, first class, diamond-encrusted heroes America can produce, and don’t let Congress play politics with this necessary bill,” the Trumped-up Stewart said. “If I’m elected – and I will be elected – I will build a wall around politics and I will make politics pay for it. Tweet at your congressmen with the hashtag #WorstResponders. Tell them Donald said, ‘Pull up your big boy pants and make America great again.’ Pass the Zadroga Act or I will glue Congress together, dip them in gold and wear them around my freakin’ neck.”