Stephen Colbert Interview with Anderson Cooper

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just people who perhaps and perhaps for
real reasons feel like that they have
been made to suffer in some way and then
they use him as a tool to inflict
suffering on others so we’re all even
it’s it’s zero something there is a max
boot wrote about this recently that
there is a the president you know
conservatives used to make fun of
liberals for victimhood that they were
always portraying themselves as victims
according to conservatives but now
Donald Trump I mean he is promoting a
sense of victimhood that is seems
appealing to a lot of the people
listening to him that that there that he
and they are being discriminated that
he’s such a strong Christian as he told
Chris Cuomo once after a debate that you
know that’s why the IRS is auditing him
allegedly no
who’ve actually offered sure I agree
with you that is one of the appeals of
Donald Trump is that there are people
who feel that the strangely feel like
they are like him or that he is like
them
when I don’t know anyone like him and
but he says you and me are the same and
I am being victimized
therefore I understand your experience
but a he’s not being victimized and he’s
like no one he’s more of the gold spoon
in his mouth and maybe he is like
everybody else I don’t know I suppose
people have a commonality but the odd
thing about the president is that we
directly know nothing about him we don’t
know his we don’t need we don’t have
stupid things
  • we don’t have school grades
  • we don’t know his actual skin color
  • we don’t know what his actual hair is like
  • we don’t know what he’s worth
  • we don’t know anything about his conversations with other world leaders

we don’t know anything about him that’s the odd part except

for a guy who likes to always have a camera pointed at him

and always talked about himself

I don’t there’s very little we can say about him

with certainty on a serious level does

Jared’s Immigration Plan Is A ‘Complete Whiff’

WE KNOW, WE KNOW IF YOU WANT TO MAKE A CASE FOR A WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST YOU HAVE TO PRESENT AIRTIGHT EVIDENCE LIKE THIS VIEL, FULL OF SWEET N LOW, THIS MEETING CAME AFTER THE
ADMINISTRATION SENT AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER, A  BOMBER GROUP AND OTHER WARSHIPS IT TO THE PERSIAN GULF REGION.
THEY WERE DEPLOYED FROM THEIR PREVIOUS ASSIGNMENT PATROLLING THE MEXICAN BORDER.
THEN, THEN THE ACTING DEFENSE SECRETARY WENT TO THE WHITE HOUSE AND PRESENTED AN UPDATED MILITARY PLAN THAT ENVISIONED
SENDING AS MANY AS 120,000 TROOPS TO THE MIDDLE EAST. RISING TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST, AMERICAN MILITARY MOVE TO THE REGION BASED ON QUESTIONABLE INTELLIGENCE, THE WORST THROWBACK THURSDAY EVER.
(LAUGHTER) AND, (APPLAUSE) AND I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO FEELS THIS WAY. SO DOES DONALD TRUMP. ACCORDING TO SOURCES IN THE WHITE HOUSE, HE IS NOT COMFORTABLE WITH ALL THIS REGIME CHANGE TALK. WHICH TO HIS EARS ECOS THE DISCUSSION OF REMOVING IRAQI PRESIDENT SADDAM HUSSEIN BEFORE THE 2003 U.S. INVASION. I’M JUST GOING TO SAY THIS AND I KNOW IT WILL NEVER BE USED OUT
OF CONTEXT, THANK GOD DONALD TRUMP IS OUR PRESIDENT. (LAUGHTER) TRUMP IS — BECAUSE IN THIS CASE TRUMP IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT HERE.
(LAUGHTER) TRUMP IS — BECAUSE IN THIS CASE TRUMP IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT HERE. AND IF ANYONE KNOWS HOW NOT TO GO TO WAR, IT IS DONALD TRUMP.
(LAUGHTER) ACCORDING TO, ACCORDING TO ADMINISTRATION SOURCES TRUMP PREFERS A DIPLOMATIC APPROACH TO RESOLVING TENSIONS AND WANTS TO SPEAK DIRECTLY WITH IRAN’S
LEADERS.
GREAT, TRUMP WILL GET A CHANCE TO BREAK OUT HIS DIPLOMATIC CHARMS WHEN HE MEETS AYATOLLAH KHAMENEI.
ST A PLEASURE TO MEET YOU MUSLIM WIZARD.
(LAUGHTER) REALLY NICE, I LIKE THE PLACE.
MR. DUMBLEDORE OF THE DESERT, PLEASE DON’T PUT A SPELL ON ME.
I COME IN PEACE.
NOW LET’S SEE THAT FLYING CARPET, WHERE WE GOT THAT.
OH, WHOLE NEW WORLD, A NEW FANTASTIC DON’T YOU DARE CLOSE
YOUR EYES.
♪ CARPET OVER THERE.
APPARENTLY THE OFFICIAL PUSHING THIS WAR IS NATIONAL SECURITY
ADVISOR AND CARTOON BEAVER ASKING YOU TO LITTER JOHN
BOLTON.
BOLTON HAS ADVOCATED REGIME CHANGE IN IRAQ, LIBYA, SYRIA, NORTH KOREA, VENEZUELA AND IRAN.
IT IT IS ALL PROMOTING HIS BUSINESS QUAGMIRES ARE US.
I WANNA BLOW EM ALL UP, I’M A QUAGMIRE KID, THERE’S A MILLION BOMBS THAT I COULD DROP TO KILL THEM ALL WITH.
(APPLAUSE) NOW MORE PLANES, MORE BOMBS.
♪ SO WHO IS GOING TO WIN THIS ARGUMENT?
THE PRESIDENT OR HIS NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR.
IT’S HARD TO TESM THE PRESIDENT WAS ASKED ABOUT IT THIS MORNING.
>> MR. PRESIDENT, ARE WE GOING TO WAR WITH
>> I HOPE NOT.
(LAUGHTER) I HOPE NOT BUT NO ONE COULD
(LAUGHTER) I HOPE NOT BUT NO ONE COULD
PREDICT WHAT THAT MAGIC EIGHT BALL IS GOING TO TELL ME NEXT.
TRUMP DENY THERE IS ANY CONFLICT ABOUT THE POSSIBLE CONFLICT WITH
IRAN TWEETING THE FAKE NEWS “WASHINGTON POST” AND EVEN MORE
FAKE NEWS “NEW YORK TIMES,” ARE WRITING STORIES THAT THERE IS
IN-FIGHTING WITH RESPECT TO MY STRONG POLICY IN THE MIDDLE
EAST.
THERE IS NO IN-FIGHTING WHATSOEVER DOT DOT DOT DOT DOT
DOT DOT.
DIFFERENT OPINIONS ARE EXPRESSED AND I MAKE A DECISIVE AND FINAL
DECISION, IT IS A VERY SIMPLE PROCESS, ALL SIDES, VIEWS AND
POLICIES ARE COVERED.
I AM SURE THAT IRAN WILL WANT TO TALK SOON, K, THINGS ARE PROCEEDING SMOOTHLY.
EVERYONE GETS A CHANCE TO LAY OUT THEIR OPINION AND THEN I
IGNORE THEM ALL AND IT’S BACK TO MR. EIGHT BALL.
HERE WE GO HERE WE GO.
HERE WE GO.
KEEP SAYING EIGHT, I DON’T UNDERSTAND.
(LAUGHTER) NOW THEY HAVEN’T REALLY
COMMUNICATED THEIR RATIONALE FOR WAR WITH IRAN TO THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE.
OR THE– PART LEIGH BECAUSE THERE HAS NOT BEEN AN OFFICIAL
BRIEFING FROM THE PENTAGON SPOKESMAN IN ALMOST A YEAR.
BUT WITH THIS LOOMING CONFRONTATION, WHAT THEY BELIEVE
IS GOING TO BE AGAINST A BURGEONING NUCLEAR POWER THE
ADMINISTRATION TOOK ACTION.
HE HAD SENT OUT GENE SIMMONS.
(LAUGHTER) THAT’S NOT A MOCK-UP 6789 AND I
JUST WANT TO SAY WHAT THE HELL, WE’RE ON THE BRINK OF A WAR AND
GENE SIMMONS IS AT THE PENTAGON PODIUM?
THAT IS RIDICULOUS.
YOU COULDN’T GET KID ROCK?