The basic point is made pretty succinctly after Meyers plays a clip of Trump’s brief acceptance of Obama’s birthplace.
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After questioning President Obama’s citizenship for six years, Trump last Friday finally said he believed the president was born in the United States.
Trump and his campaign surrogates like Chris Christie and Kellyanne Conway went on cable news over the weekend, trying to declare that Trump stopped promoting birtherism conspiracies after Obama’s certificate release in 2011, but as Meyers demonstrated, that simply isn’t true. Colbert said about Trump’s investigators before comparing them to the characters on Gilligan’s Island. During his A Closer Look segment Monday night, Seth Meyers took Trump to task for all of this.
Colbert went on to remind his audience that Trump is a “world-class liar”, and Trump’s attempt to shift the blame for the start of birtherism to the 2008 Clinton campaign is just another example, considering this was disproven by Politifact almost a year ago.
“‘Obama was born in the United States.’ Period?” Meyers repeated incredulously. “Fuck you, exclamation point!” Christie actually argued that Trump didn’t bring it up over the past five years. To recap, Fallon invited Trump on his show last week and failed to challenge him on literally anything, instead choosing to sniff the farts of a presidential candidate who is openly hostile toward women, blacks, Muslims, Mexicans, and other groups of people. “We want to talk about ISIS and how to get rid of ISIS”. “Trump built his career on a racist lie because he’s a racist and a liar”. “And I know you didn’t, because I was alive and on TV”. “Well, once Trump left the stage things fell apart, literally”.
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