Brand new Late Show host Stephen Colbert hosted Donald Trump last night, the presidential candidate America richly deserves. His ideas continue to be highly sophisticated: Build a “great, beautiful” wall between the U.S. and Mexico with a “beautiful big, fat door” in it. Make Mexico pay for it. Make it a “serious wall.” We’re really getting somewhere. In a handbasket.
Colbert started off by gently apologizing for having made fun of Trump for the better part of a decade. He then asked if Trump had anyone he might need to say sorry to, but Trump couldn’t quite think of anyone.
Colbert also asked: “Barack Obama: born in the United States?”
Trump, who spent 2012 leading the birther brigade, responded only: “I don’t talk about it anymore. I talk about jobs. I talk about our veterans being horribly treated. I just don’t discuss that.”
They also played a fun game, trying to distinguish a bloviating caricature of a businessman from the character Stephen Colbert played. Humble thoughts like, “I think apologizing’s a great thing, but you have to be wrong… I will absolutely apologize, sometime in the hopefully distant future, if I’m ever wrong.”
