Elizabeth Warren And Stephen Colbert Realize There Are Dog Years, And Then There Are ‘Trump Years’

Elizabeth Warren didn’t disappoint with her latest appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Right off the bat, Colbert hits her with Donald’s Trump tweet about her comments about Hillary Clinton and the DNC, referring to her as Pocahontas. While she addresses the latter point in the rest of the segment, hitting at the numerous fights the Democrats have ahead with taxes and healthcare, she quickly deals with Trump immediately at the top of interview:

“Donald Trump thinks if he’s gonna start every one of these tweets to me with a racist slur, that he’s gonna shut me up. It didn’t work in the past, it’s not gonna work in the future.”

The crowd didn’t hesitate to cheer and applaud Warren throughout her chat, but this might’ve been a lead off homer for the senator. She follows it by deflecting Colbert’s questions about a possible run for the presidency in 2020, bringing it back to the fights yet to come during the current administration. Both note that people are paying more attention to the bills and topics being brought up in Congress, especially the proposed tax cuts. Wealthy donors do not get a friendly picture painted about them here and history shows they really shouldn’t as Colbert and Warren point out with our past failings with trickle down economics.

In the second part of the interview, Warren discusses the sexual allegations against Al Franken and the greater flood of sexual misconduct claims spreading out of the Weinstein scandal. While she shares her disappointment with Franken, she expands it to discuss the entire moment and if it will play out as a true wave of change or just a flash before things go back to how they were before. She’s more worried about the situation for all women and the culture that allows men and women at all levels to abuse their power.

If Warren isn’t running in 2020, she certainly did enough to put the idea in plenty of minds with this type of chat.

(Via The Late Show)

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