Senator Elizabeth Warren appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Thursday evening to have an unfortunately brief interview, one in which Colbert oddly choose to play advocate for Trump.
Asked for her overall opinion on the Republican National Convention, Warren had a clear response.
“I thought it was the nastiest, most divisive convention that we’ve seen in half a century.
Warren also had the chance to give a capsule review of Trump’s speech:
He sounded like some two-bit dictator of a country that you couldn’t find on a map. He sounded like a dictator of a small country rather than a man who is running for the highest office of the strongest democracy on the face of this Earth.
Warren was asked it Trump wasn’t tapping into a legitimate anger.
“People are angry, and people have good reasons to be angry. Incomes are flat. Expenses are up. Young people can’t make it through college without being crushed by debt. Seniors can’t stretch a Social Security check to cover food and rent. There are a lot of reasons to be angry.
But let’s be really, really clear—Donald Trump does not have the answers.
Asked what was wrong with Trump’s message, Warren’s reply was sharp.
Are you kidding me? Here’s the problem. Every time you scratch the surface a little bit and see what Donald Trump is really talking about, what he’s really talking about is what he’s talked about all his life: And that is how to improve the world for Donald Trump. I heard the part where he talked about taxes and said ‘the biggest tax cut … I’m the only guy’ what he just failed to mention was that Donald Trump would get about a $1.3 million tax cut out of that deal. He just takes care of Donald Trump first, last, and everything in between.
Warren was also asked if Bernie’s followers would go to Trump because both groups believe “the system is rigged” and Hillary is a Washington insider.
You raise the question about the game being rigged. The game is rigged. Washington works for those who can hire armies of lawyers, armies of lobbyists. It works for billionaires like Donald Trump. For the rest of America it’s not working so well. So one answer—the Democrats answer—is to say we’ve got to use our voices, we’ve got to use our votes, and take back government and make it work for all of us. That’s what we think is the right thing to do.
[“That sounds a lot like what he said,” interjected Colbert.]
No. What Donald Trump says is ‘there’s a problem out there and it’s all about each other. What you need to be afraid of is every other American.’