{"id":2810,"date":"2025-07-17T12:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/2810\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T12:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:55:08","slug":"stephen-colbert-spots-trump-moment-that-went-off-the-rails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/2810\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert Spots Trump Moment That ‘Went Off The Rails’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cLate Show\u201d host Stephen Colbert<\/a> on Wednesday said President Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s event a day earlier \u201cwent off the rails pretty darn quick.\u201d <\/p>\n

Trump was supposed to discuss new investments in artificial intelligence and energy, but then derailed himself with a long, strange ramble<\/a> about his uncle, John Trump, who was a professor at MIT.<\/p>\n

The president boasted that his uncle was \u201cone of the great professors, 51 years, whatever, longest-serving professor in the history of MIT, three degrees in nuclear, chemical, and math.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cBrace yourself,\u201d Colbert warned his audience after playing the clip. \u201cNone of that was true.\u201d <\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s uncle was not the longest-serving professor at MIT. His undergraduate and doctorate degrees were in electrical engineering and he had a master\u2019s degree in physics \u2014 not \u201cnuclear, chemical, and math.\u201d <\/p>\n

Trump also said his uncle taught Ted Kaczynski<\/a>, the \u201cUnabomber\u201d terrorist who killed people via mail bombs. The president told a whole story about asking his uncle what kind of student Kaczynski was.<\/p>\n

His uncle, Trump claimed, told him that the future Unabomber was \u201cseriously good\u201d and would correct the other students\u2019 work. <\/p>\n

\u201cNone of that is true either,\u201d Colbert said. <\/p>\n

Kaczynski went to Harvard, not MIT.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven more insane,\u201d Colbert said, Trump\u2019s uncle died more than a decade before Kaczynski was identified as the person sending explosives and arrested. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo why on Earth would Trump have asked his uncle about him?\u201d Colbert wondered, then broke out his impression of the president to envision how it might have happened. <\/p>\n

\u201cHey, Uncle John, Uncle Professor Dr. John Trump, professor, sir, uncle. You know that random guy who isn\u2019t famous at all and lives in the woods and machines his own screws?\u201d Colbert asked in his Trump voice. \u201cWhat was it like when you didn\u2019t teach him?\u201d <\/p>\n

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