“I want to apologize to you, because I’ve said a few things about you, over the years, that, in polite company, perhaps are unforgivable”, Colbert said to Trump.
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“I don’t talk about that anymore”, he said.
When he talked about building his wall on the southern U.S. border, and invoked the Great Wall of China, Colbert interjected that Jesus had helped build that.
Tuesday night Stephen Colbert had on GOP frontrunner Donald Trump and while he got in some good pot shots he mostly pulled his punches – especially compared to Colbert’s entirely fair, skewering of Ted Cruz Monday night. “I hope you’ll accept my apology … is there anybody you would like to apologize to yourself?”
Trump skittered sideways, implying again that he continues to believe in the discredited notion that the president is a foreigner, and thus constitutionally unfit for the job. The Late Show host started off by crediting the Republican candidate for “setting the world on fire” and later quoted his high polling numbers.
Asked toward the end of the segment if he would once-and-for-all confirm that Obama was born in the USA, Trump dodged the question.
For the last question, Colbert threw Trump a curveball.
In fact, Colbert played a game with Trump on Tuesday to see if he could figure out which quote was said by Trump or by Colbert’s “Report” character.
The presidential contender visited the set of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Monday night, appearing far more chipper than expected as he faced one of his major contemporary critics.
And focusing on Trump’s insistence that Mexico would pay for the wall, Colbert drew him into a role-playing exercise – a phone call where “you’re you, and I’m the president of Mexico”.
Trump talked about how the country has big problems, including the fallout from the invasion of Iraq, which Trump said cost us $2 trillion, and thousands of lives, and de-stablized the Middle East.
Trump did everything he could do avoid responding, deflecting with: “I just don’t discuss it anymore”, Trump said, sounding embarrassed by his own words.
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It was a straightforward question – a “big fat meatball” as “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert described it. “Barack Obama, born in the United States?”
