Colbert: ‘I Have Respect for Trump for Knowing Who the Real Audience Is’

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:

DICKERSON: "There was a little bit of trump respect for his ability to channel the populous."

COLBERT: “I have respect for trump for knowing who the real audience is. That if you really want to win, got to get the people. The people get to make the call. Especially now because the parties are so behold tone big money. That the party apparatus itself has been dismantled in favor of just cash. And so there aren't wise old people who get to make the call that's been farmed out to super PACS. Don't seem to be that powerful themselves, really. But in giving power over to super PACS they have completely defanged the party themselves. That's why you can't stop a trump. That's a real blowback to the idea that we're going to take power away from the party and just give it to cash. What I did respect is that he knows that it is an emotional appeal. And it might be emotional appeal that I can't respect. But he knows that you have to appeal to the voter. And that's why I may be wrong. I made a big deal about, there's no way he's going to win.”

DICKERSON: "You weren't the only one.”

COLBERT: “Again, I don't know anything about politics.”

DICKERSON: "But you do know about the country. You've sense of where the country is. You have a sense, I wonder how you get that now –“

COLBERT: “One of the reasons I stopped the old show I had sense where the country is. I think people don't really want constant divisiveness. I really don't think they want that. I thought, I can't drink that cup anymore because I don't think people really want to hear it."