Donald Trump has been throwing elbows after Ted Cruz won all 34 Colorado Republican delegates in a series of state conventions. "Wow, Colorado figured out how to elect people without voting?" Larry Wilmore marveled on Tuesday's Nightly Show. "Man, legal pot really has made them lazy." It turns out Trump's efforts to court Colorado delegates were riddled with bad math, misspellings, and a general lack of preparation and homework. It feels like the tide has shifted in the GOP race, Wilmore said, and not in Trump's favor. "Even though he's still talking about winning, it sounds more like whining."
Trump isn't just whining, though. His campaign also accused the Cruz camp of using "Gestapo tactics" in Colorado. "You must feel threatened if you're playing the Reich card," Wilmore said. "Well, congratulations, Ted Cruz. Only frontrunners get called Nazis." A Trump spokeswoman then defended the Nazi reference on CNN, and Wilmore marveled at this amazing, bizarre bit of television: "This is how surreal this campaign has gotten: A black woman is defending the use of the word 'Gestapo' to a man named Wolf Blitzer — in her defense of a white man with a bad combover trying to rise to power in a way that can only be described as Hitlerian. My head is going to explode." The last half of the clip is Wilmore interviewing a Trump impersonator, and you can watch the whole video below. Peter Weber
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