“Next I assume he’s going to announce that water is wet, that bears poop in the woods, and that Donald Trump is not qualified to be president”. “But I think Trump could have learned a thing or two from actual New Yorkers, who showed the world just how calm they can be in the face of crisis”.
Advertisement
Colbert stitched together an fantastic string of video clips over the past five years featuring a blustery Trump touting his “serious” doubts that Obama was born in the United States, backed up by nothing but inuendo – or fibs. He recently lifted that ban after Trump did the same, but joked to The Huffington Post that Late Night was “pretty booked up” on guests from now through November.
“Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy”.
Trump appears to be suggesting that he did not stop questioning the president’s birthplace because of an actual change of heart, but rather because he came to see the issue as a distraction. That interview had yet to air in full when ABC 6 published its Q-and-A with Trump. It matters not a whit that Trump has finally, for blatant political purposes, admitted that the president was born in the United States. Not period. Question mark.
“Why can’t he produce a birth certificate?”
Trump then left the room, refusing to take questions from reporters.
Colbert called Trump a liar for this claim and had the video clips to prove it, including one where Trump offered to give $5 million to a charity of the president’s choice if he “opens up and gives his college records and applications…”
Advertisement
“Late Night” host Seth Meyers spent almost 10 minutes of his show on Monday attacking Donald Trump for that ridiculous press conference he held on Friday, during which the GOP nominee finally admitted Barack Obama was born in the United States. “Because New Yorkers know that “Muslim” and “terrorist” are not synonyms – kind of like “Trump” and ‘presidential'”. Christie actually argued that Trump didn’t bring it up over the past five years. “It’s done. It’s gone”.
