On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert plays a Trump speech at a convention in Pennsylvania where he said "we're building a wall in Colorado." Colbert then reads the follow-up tweet, in which Trump wrote that he said it "kiddingly" and that Kansas gets "the benefit of the wall." The bit mocks the after-the-fact walk-back.
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
- 59 seconds, unedited within the cut
Read the transcript
convention in Pennsylvania and focused on the technology of the future, wall. We're building a wall on the border of New Mexico and we're building a wall in Colorado. That's right. But building a border wall in Colorado. Once we're done with that, they're building a naval base in Idaho. A lot of people, including me, mocked the president for this. Ha ha. So late last night, he tweeted, Kiddingly, we're building a wall in Colorado. Then stated we're not building a wall in Kansas, but they get the benefit of the wall. We're building on the border. Referred to people in the very packed auditorium from Colorado and Kansas getting the benefit of the border wall. Yeah, obviously. Obviously, like it says in the parentheses, he was kiddingly.
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.