Stephen Colbert Spots 'Exactly' The Reason For Trump's Unexpected New Fixation
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The "Late Show" host mocked the president for the place he seemed to get his latest idea from.
“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert on Tuesday night got to the bottom of President Donald Trump’s sudden fixation on reopening Alcatraz as a prison.
“We now have a pretty good idea where he got his bad idea, and it’s exactly where you think he did,” Colbert said.
The 1979 Clint Eastwood thriller “Escape From Alcatraz” aired on a Florida TV station twice in the 24 hours before Trump’s announcement on Sunday night ― a station that the president would have had access to at his Mar-a-Lago home, where he spent the weekend.
Colbert also noted a very curious anecdote Trump told during a press conference this week when asked about Alcatraz.
“Nobody ever escaped,” the president said. “One person almost got there but they, as you know the story, they found his clothing rather badly ripped up and it was a lot of shark bites, a lot of problems.”
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