“How dare you, sir?” Colbert, who once lived in the city, fired back. “Chicago is not a hellhole right now. Chicago is not a hellhole until February.”
Shootings and homicides are down more than 30%, and total violent crime is down 22% compared to last year, according to police data. But Trump called Chicago “the worst and most dangerous city in the world” in a social media post.
That led Colbert to deliver a response that got bleeped.
“Worst and most dangerous?” Colbert fired back. “Two words: fuck you.”
Only the second of those two words made it onto network television.
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