“And it got real creepy, real fast,” he noted as he played a clip of the ex-president telling the crowd: “I am your retribution.”
“That’s pretty harsh,” Colbert said, calling the speech a “terrifying preview of the fascism to come.”
Colbert also spotted some other odd moments from CPAC, including 2024 GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley telling a room with plenty of empty seats that “wokeness is a virus more dangerous than any pandemic, hands-down.”
“Yes, wokeness is such a dangerous virus that it apparently killed two-thirds of her audience,” Colbert fired back.
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