“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert exposed President Donald Trump’s repeated lies about his planned $400 million White House ballroom after Republicans included $1 billion for the project in their reconciliation package released on Monday.
“Okay, I know it’s hard to wrap your head around a billion dollars,” Colbert said. “Let me put that in layman’s terms, that is bullshit. Because from the whole start of this thing, Trump has had one unwavering promise about his ballroom.”
Colbert then played a supercut of Trump promising that no taxpayer money would be used to build the ballroom.
“By the way, zero money spent by the government, zero,” Trump said in one clip.
“It’s all donations, rich people and people are putting up the money, zero taxpayer dollars,” he claimed in another.
