'Brace Yourself': Stephen Colbert Spots Trump Moment That Quickly 'Went Off The Rails'

The president made a series of wild claims, and the "Late Show" host was ready with a fact-check.

“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert on Wednesday said President Donald Trump’s event a day earlier “went off the rails pretty darn quick.”

Trump was supposed to discuss new investments in AI and energy, but then derailed himself with a long, strange ramble about his uncle, John Trump, who was a professor at MIT.

The president boasted that his uncle was “one of the great professors, 51 years, whatever, longest-serving professor in the history of MIT, three degrees in nuclear, chemical, and math.”

“Brace yourself,” Colbert warned his audience after playing the clip. “None of that was true.”

Trump’s uncle was not the longest-serving professor at MIT. He had one degree, not three, and it was in electrical engineering not “nuclear, chemical, and math.”