Late night hosts took aim at Donald Trump on Feb. 28, since it was their first chance to skewer the leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination for his failure to automatically disavow former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke.
Over the weekend, CNN anchor Jake Tapper asked Trump about Duke’s recent comments, in which he told his followers to vote for Trump. Although Trump did disavow Duke during a press conference on Feb. 26, he failed to do the same thing when talking to Tapper. LAter in an interview with The Today Show, Trump blamed his non-answer on a bad earpiece.
“I'm sitting in a house in Florida, with a very bad earpiece that they gave me, and you could hardly hear what he was saying,” Trump said. “What I heard was 'various groups.' And I don't mind disavowing anybody and I disavowed David Duke.”
Late Night host Seth Meyers didin’t really believe that. “He said ‘David Duke’ and the ‘Ku Klux Klan’? I thought he said ‘Daisy Duke’ and the ‘Wu-Tang Clan’... and I will not disavow the Wu-Tang Clan!”
The Late Show’s Stephen Colbert said that Trump’s non-answer was him failing the easiest test in American politics.
“When someone asks you, ‘Will you disavow the Ku Klux Klan,’ just say yes and start high-fiving your future cabinet,” Colbert said.
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