Colbert Mocks Trump’s ‘Sold Out’ Kickoff Rally: I Knew His Voters Were Old, I Didn’t Know They Were Ghosts

RUSH EXCERPT:

COLBERT: “And I know that’s a lie, because we sent a camera crew down there, with Jim anchorton and Jill newslady from “Real news tonight,” and this is footage they brought back from outside during the speech of that supposed overflow crowd. And, it’s no one. Just garbage and abandoned lawn furniture. And that was right before the rally started. You can see the rally on the screen in the background right there. There it is, for the crowd that is supposed to be watching the screen that is not there. But maybe they went home without any of their chairs because they couldn’t get into that sold-out arena. Again, no. Because our team got their press credentials denied at the last minute— and this is true— so they just went online and got tickets and walked in.They just walked in to take any one of the many, many empty seats in the arena. Wow, I knew Trump’s voters were old. I didn’t know they were ghosts. Don’t get me wrong. He had maybe 20,000 people there. That’s a nice crowd but it wasn’t sold out. “