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Long before Donald Trump was promising his dwindling fan base that he will defeat “demonic forces” in order to Make America Great Again, Tucker Carlson was describing the then-president himself as a “demonic force” whom he hates “passionately.”
While Stephen Colbert seemed slightly surprised that Carlson was capable of uttering such “harsh, accurate words,” he saw no evidence of that passionate loathing during the Fox News host’s painfully obsequious Wednesday night sit-down with Trump.
In his intro to their interview, Carlson did his best to pretend that the whole world didn’t just read his private texts mocking Trump when he told viewers that “for a man who is caricatured as an extremist, we think you’ll find what he has to say moderate, sensible, and wise.” What followed was anything but. Still, Colbert couldn’t help but be wowed by Carlson’s “impressive flip-flop.”