Colbert's spoof of Trump on '60 Minutes' is both hilarious and frightening

An interview of an interview.
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Johnny Lieu
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Trump's interview with 60 Minutes was a rare insight into what the president thinks about issues like climate change, not that it satisfied Stephen Colbert, or anything.

The Late Show host re-enacted the Lesley Stahl interview on Monday night, because there's a really small chance that Colbert will ever get to interview Trump -- much like anyone in the media, really.

In the spoof interview, Colbert asks Trump questions on who he'd pick to replace Jeff Sessions (answer: pillows and blankets) and what he thinks of his sons Donald Jr. and Eric (answer: they're ridiculous).

Anyway, it makes for a pretty hilarious segment.

In the original 60 Minutes interview, Trump claimed that climate change could potentially reverse, and doesn't think it's human-induced.

He also said "doesn't matter" if he thought Christine Blasey Ford was lying in his testimony against Brett Kavanaugh, because as he puts it: "We won."

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