Stephen Colbert Directly Connects Trump’s ‘Racist’ Rhetoric to Atlanta Shootings in Brutal Montage

Stephen Colbert called out Donald Trump for bearing a “particular responsibility” for the shootings in Atlanta that killed six people on Tuesday, eight of whom were Asian women.

“One thing is clear, this isn’t an isolated incident,” Colbert said of the shootings. “A recent study show that hate crimes against Asian Americans in America’s biggest cities climbed 150 percent last year, with a spike in March and April when Covid lockdowns began.”

Colbert noted that the rise in attacks occurred around the same time Trump began using anti-Asian slurs at the start of the pandemic.

The host then aired a brutal supercut showing Trump using the phrases “the China virus,” “Kung flu,” and “the China plague.”

“He’s clearly just using hate as a tool to blame his own failings on a foreign country,” Colbert said after playing the montage of Trump using slurs.

“This will always be part of his legacy. He will always be remembered as a hateful man who left a stain not just on the White House pillows, but on our whole society by inviting his MAGA minions to an all-you-can-hate racist buffet.”

“I hope one day he’ll come to understand how much pain he’s caused,” Colbert said, later correcting himself: “I’m sorry, I misread that. I hope one day he sits on his own balls. Like, really hard.”

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