Stephen Colbert has strong words after Trump's 'emergy' tweet

"It's totes an emergy!"
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Stephen Colbert has strong words after Trump's 'emergy' tweet
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The President of the United States has once again tweeted up a storm without stopping to do a quick spell check.

In a tweet about a "caravan" of 7,000 migrants from Central America travelling towards the U.S. border, Trump declared it a "National Emergy," while also stating that "Criminals and unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in" — something that has not been documented.

Stephen Colbert on The Late Show called out Trump for his spelling and his general fear-mongering around the topic of migration.

"He's just stuffing all the fears into one burrito of doom," Colbert said.

The word "emergy" is actually defined as "the total energy used in the life cycle of some product," but we doubt that was what the President was talking about.


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