On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert pitches Donald Trump a "big, fat meatball": say Barack Obama was born in the United States and never face the question again. Trump passes, saying "I don't talk about it anymore" and pivoting to jobs and veterans. Colbert's punchline: the meatball is "being dragged down the steps of the subway by a rat."
The receipt
- Who
- Stephen Colbert
- Where
- monologue - The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
- Original footage
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 43 seconds, unedited within the cut
Read the transcript
All right, I'm gonna throw you up a big, fat meatball for you to hit out of the park right now. Okay? Good. This is the last time you ever have to address this question if you hit the ball. Okay? Go ahead. Big old. There's like... sauce all over my hands. This meatball is so big. Okay? I want to hear this one. Barack Obama? Born in the United States. Let me just... Luzzie. It's a meatball. I know. It's hanging out there. Just right there. Come on. I was running for it. And you wanna know, I don't talk about it anymore. You don't talk about it? I talk about jobs, I talk about our veterans being horribly traded. I just don't discuss it anymore. You know that meatball is now being dragged down the steps of the subway by a rat.
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.