Colbert told the GOP leader, “I want to thank you not only for being here but for running for president“.
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Earlier in the decade, the billionaire businessman questioned whether Barack Obama had been born in the United States, prompting the president to release his birth certificate in 2011. The new one, however, is perhaps a little too respectful: Colbert seemed at times chummy with Trump. “It’s hanging out there!”
Trump dodged the question saying, “I don’t talk about it anymore”, before moving on to other issues. I talk about jobs. That is the sound of a meatball being dragged down the subway steps by a rat. “You missed the meatball”.
All in all, Stephen Colbert’s interview with Donald Trump was “entertaining and insightful”. “They’re treated worse than the illegals”. Colbert nodded to doubts that Trump was serious about being President, or if this is all part of Trump’s elaborate play for publicity.
“For years I play an over the top, like, conservative, you know, character”, Colbert said, adding, “…not as long as you did, but I did for many years.
Watch the interview, as posted online, below. When he talked about building his wall on the southern United States border, and invoked the Great Wall of China, Colbert interjected that Jesus had helped build that.
Peppered with questions and wisecracks during his appearance, the usually domineering Trump took a back seat while still defending some of his more controversial statements. Trump has even said that he could probably afford to “tone it down”, even as last week’s Republican primary debate made clear that’s probably going to be easier said than done. “We have to have a border, and in that wall, we have to have a handsome big, fat door”. Secretary of Energy and architect of the Iran nuclear deal, Dr. Ernest Moniz, was Colbert’s second guest.
Colbert also apologized to Trump for all the things he’s said about him over the years while asking him if there’s anyone he’d like to apologize to.
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“I was just gonna say the same thing … but I don’t want to be a wise guy“, Trump joked.
