Wednesday morning started with an NBC News report that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had called President Trump a "moron" and almost quit over the summer, and on Wednesday's Late Show, Stephen Colbert was incensed. "Hold on there, Tillerson — nobody calls our president a moron except me," Colbert said, "and other world leaders and, ultimately, history." Tillerson was apparently moved to "say such a vicious, accurate thing about his boss" because Trump sullied the Boy Scout Jamboree, Colbert sighed. But Trump, predictably, lashed out on Twitter, and Tillerson called an impromptu press conference.
Tillerson denied ever considering quitting, praised Trump's patriotism and other attributes, and ... declined to deny that he called the president a moron. "Yeah, he totally said it," Colbert said. Afterward, Trump tweeted out his vindication anyway, and demanded that NBC News apologize to America. Colbert agreed, "because apparently, Tillerson didn't call our president a moron; he called him a 'f---ing moron.'"
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