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Stephen Colbert shook Trump's hand on the one show Trump was on [1]
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Date: 2025-05-31
It was September 22, 2015. Stephen had been doing the show for two weeks. Somebody thought it would be a good thing to have Trump on, seeing as how he was running for president.
Somehow, it's a crime that there are no clips of the event up on YouTube.
That's a lie because there is 4 minute interview clip is up on YouTube right here.
Here's a different 2 minute clip from the interview on YouTube.
Trump's clip on Truth Social is only 2 minutes and crappy quality. What isn't in the YouTube clips is the end of the interview where Trump is leaving and Colbert shakes his hand. Whoop-de-do. It's heavily edited. It also has his entrance and a couple things cut to make him look good. Not happening in reality.
The 4 minute YouTube clip is almost all about The Wall. Colbert's solution was two walls with a moat between them with crocodiles. Colbert played the president of Mexico and Trump was supposed to convince him to pay for the wall.
The 2 minute YouTube clip is the game "Trump or Colbert" where Stephen reads something Trump, or he said when he was doing his conservative personna. Pretty funny.
I checked the Wayback Machine, but it just came up with a message that the Late Show YouTube channel was active on the web and didn't need to be archived.
Trump's clip is poor quality, video and sound out of sync. Like it's gone through several generations of compression.
The only reason that I can think of why "you're not supposed to see this video" is that he greets Trump on stage with a quick handshake, and then a handshake as Trump leaves, like Colbert does with all guests.
"You will not see these segments on YouTube either." It's one segment. It's not up on YouTube. So what?
Oooh, are we talking censorship?
Ridiculous. Trump thought this was important enough to put up on Truth Social after bidding adieu to Elon Musk. Either Trump or his staffers think they've got a scoop. Maybe, if the scoop was brown and smelly.
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