Charlottesville: Stephen Colbert runs down all the things Donald Trump 'hates more than Nazis'
'If only the president was as mad about neo-Nazis murdering people as he’s been about Meryl Streep'
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Your support makes all the difference.Stephen Colbert wasted no time in addressing Donald Trump's inability to condemn a group of neo-Nazis who staged a violent rally in Charlottesville, Virginia on his late night talk show.
The violent clashes saw white supremacists marching in the streets holding flags bearing swastikas with one driving a car into a crowd of people which killed one lady and injured many who were counter-protesting Nazism.
Colbert condemned the display of hate bluntly, something Donald Trump failed to do in his initial speech about the incident. Instead, the President said he condemned the "...egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence" on display by "many sides."
To accentuate his point, The Late Show host - as reported by The Daily Beast - listed all the unimportant things Trump has been quick to publicly condemn in the past whether in speeches or over Twitter.
“If only the president was as mad about neo-Nazis murdering people in the streets as he’s been about Hillary Clinton, The New York Times, CNN, Joe Scarborough, Kristen Stewart, the cast of Hamilton, Diet Coke, Nordstrom’s not selling his daughter’s clothes, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the mayor of London Sadiq Khan, me, the state of New Hampshire, Gold Star families, Penn Jillette’s Las Vegas show, the movie Django Unchained, Meryl Streep and lady Ghostbusters.”
Referencing Trump's speech, the host stated: ““But here’s something that’s not hard to express - Nazis are bad," Colbert stated bluntly. "The KKK, I’m not a fan. That wasn’t hard. That was easy. I enjoyed saying it. Mr. President, this is terrorism, not your order at KFC.
Paying tribute to the victims, Colbert said: "The rally was a clear attempt to spark violence, and it did. Our hearts go out to the victims and their families. And it is difficult to express how heartbreaking it is to see something like this happening in our country.”
Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci appeared as a guest on Colbert's talk show in which he lashed out at Trump's advisor Steven Bannon.
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