Following Donald Trump’s “major announcement” on Friday where admitted that President Obama was born in the U.S. and blamed Hillary Clinton for starting the birther movement, late night hosts Seth Meyers and Stephen Colbert pounced on the news last night and showed how easy it is to prove Trump’s latest batch of lies and attempt to glaze over the fact that he started the controversy in the first place. “And I know you didn’t because I was alive and on TV”.
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The shameless pandering ended with one sentence, not an apology to Americans or the president. “President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period”. “F**k you, exclamation point!” “Trump built his career on a racist lie because he’s a racist and a liar, and instead of denouncing that lie, the GOP doubled-down on it completely and now Trump is trying to trick people once again that he was never really a birther at all, and that it was Hillary Clinton that started it”.
How could Trump think he could pull the wool over everyone’s eyes, Colbert wondered. Maybe memory is a tricky thing.
Colbert, who in 2012 heavily criticized Trump’s demands to see Obama’s birth certificate on “The Colbert Report”, did not buy Trump’s new view on the matter in the slightest.
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… By the way, now that you’ve admitted the president was born here, a lot of people think you owe Obama a $5 million donation”.
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Colbert went on to play numerous clips of Trump spouting birther conspiracy theories, showing that Trump touted it for an extended period of time and slamming him for acting as if he’d put the issue to bed for everyone else.
