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Late Night Hosts React To Donald Trump’s Claims That He’s The Least Racist Person
This past weekend, President Donald Trump was asked if he was a racist, as there have been several people accusing him of racism following comments he allegedly made during a meeting about DACA last week. Trump, at the time, reportedly called countries like Haiti “shitholes,” which the President has denied. He was later asked about it and he told the interviewer that he was the “least racist person” the person ever interviewed. Both Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers weighed in on the issue with their own takes on if’s really a racist or not.
Meyers said: “Why do you do that to yourself, man? If you’d just said, ‘I’m not a racist,’ then maybe you could muddy the waters and people would have to debate it. But when you say ‘the least racist person,’ you just set off alarm bells. It’s the difference between saying, ‘I’m a tall person’ and ‘I’m the tallest person on Earth.’ With one, you go, ‘Yeah, pretty tall, I guess,’ and with the other, you go, ‘Oh, he’s crazy.’”
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— The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) January 16, 2018