Donald Trump's support among black voters is very low — in fact, it's 0 percent in one poll — and to raise that number, "Trump spent one day courting the black vote in Detroit with former neurosurgeon and black Dilbert Ben Carson," Stephen Colbert said on Tuesday's Late Show. Carson lost his luggage, but Trump visited a black church "and even swayed awkwardly to gospel music," Colbert said, showing a clip of that spectacle. "That there is his signature dance move: Shift a little to the left, shift a little to the right, same thing he does with his immigration policy."
"But before the service began, Trump sat down with Bishop Wayne T. Johnson for an interview that will air next week on the church's TV channel," Colbert said. "And while I haven't seen it yet, I can tell you exactly how it went, because the bishop sent in what questions he was going to ask and the Trump campaign scripted all of Trump's answers in advance. Which means it wasn't so much an interview as it was a play." To get an explanation, Colbert interviewed a (fake) Trump spokeswoman, and the joke is apparent right away — and funnier when it falls apart at the end. Watch below. Peter Weber
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