On Colbert's Late Show, Donald Trump still won't admit that Obama was born in the U.S.


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At the beginning of his interview with Donald Trump on Tuesday's Late Show, Stephen Colbert apologized about his years of saying things about Trump that "in polite company, perhaps, are unforgivable." Trump graciously accepted the apology, but when Colbert offered him the chance to apologize to somebody — anybody — he declined.
So Colbert turned to Trump's proposal to deport all illegal immigrants and build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico. Trump enthusiastically made his pitch, and when Colbert asked about how he would convince Mexico to pay for it, they role-played that phone call, with Trump playing Trump and Colbert playing a girly-voiced Mexican president.
After the wall talk, Colbert told his guest he was going to throw him "a big fat meatball for you to hit out of the park," promising that he'll never have to address the question "if you hit the ball." The question: "Barack Obama, born in the United States?" Trump whiffed: "You wanna know? I don't talk about it anymore." Colbert sighed: "You know that meatball is now being dragged down the steps of the subway by a rat." Watch the Trump interview below, and Colbert's bit about the "pizza rat" here. Peter Weber
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Peter Weber is a senior editor at TheWeek.com, and has handled the editorial night shift since the website launched in 2008. A graduate of Northwestern University, Peter has worked at Facts on File and The New York Times Magazine. He speaks Spanish and Italian and plays bass and rhythm cello in an Austin rock band. Follow him on Twitter.
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