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Stephen Colbert explains everything you need to know about Trump's Ukraine call transcript

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Uploaded: 2019-09-26T08:24:06+00:00
Description: No time to read the released transcript of the phone call that could spell impeachment for Donald Trump? Stephen Colbert has you covered.

"We are in uncharted waters."

Caitlin Welsh

on September 26, 2019

Stephen Colbert explains everything you need to know about Trump's Ukraine call transcript

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No time to read the released transcript of the phone call that could spell im-🍑-ment for Donald Trump? Stephen Colbert has you covered.

Here the Late Show host runs you through the salient points of the document, which is neither a letter nor exculpatory, despite what the president thinks.

Colbert sums the vibe of the call up in his best and creakiest Trump voice: "Look, Vloddy, all I'm saying is, I scratch your back, you help me bury Joe Biden's political career in a shallow grave in the woods down by the dump."

And from the White House accidentally sending their post-release talking points to the house Democrats instead of the Republicans, to the bizarro vibe of Trump's IRL meeting with the Ukrainian president, there are plenty of wild extra details for Colbert to snark about.

He also brings back that chillingly gummy Eric Trump impression.

Topics Donald Trump Politics

Caitlin Welsh

Caitlin is Mashable's Australian Editor. She has written for The Guardian, Junkee, and any number of plucky little music and culture publications that were run on the smell of an oily rag and have since been flushed off the Internet like a dead goldfish by their new owners. She also worked at Choice, Australia's consumer advocacy non-profit and magazine, and as such has surprisingly strong opinions about whitegoods. She enjoys big dumb action movies, big clever action movies, cult Canadian comedies set in small towns, Carly Rae Jepsen, The Replacements, smoky mezcal, revenge bedtime procrastination, and being left the hell alone when she's reading.