So you may think that your rights are being taken away when really the playing field is being leveled and the country is just evolving. They’re having to do, in America, they’re having to deal with religious pluralism. “Like for straight people with gay rights now. “When you are used to sort of having your way and the world reflecting who you are and what you want, when the playing field is being leveled it can feel like discrimination,” said Lemon. “I think that as a country, what is interesting about this administration, I think that it is offering us the opportunity to figure out who we’re going to be and are we going to be people who shut people out and put them in cages, put them in camps and separate them from their children, or are we going to be a nation that welcomes people in - with rules, of course - and be the America that we’re supposed to be.”Ĭolbert added that studies have found that the United States is bound to become more multicultural because white people are reproducing less. They were concerned about losing their privilege - and that’s what this is about.” “People were concerned about not having the same level of influence that they had. If we were told, or people would have you to believe that this was about economic anxiety, every single study and survey shows that this was about people who are losing power, losing influence. Lemon then discussed how Trump’s racially charged comments impact him as an African-American reporter. That typically happens every single night.” “Everything I had studied for was out the door. I used to wake up early every morning and study and read everything and I still read everything, but my show would change 15 minutes before air,” he said. “Every night it’s like drinking news from a fire hose. “I should probably drink a lot more than I do,” Lemon joked. “If I walked out here and had the same thing on, you’d ask me about it, wouldn’t you? What is it you don’t care about? So I think it’s odd that they are wondering why the media’s asking what did that mean? … Obviously if you wear those big letters on your back and there’s a question mark, that means ask me about it.”Ĭolbert asked him how he deals with covering the president. Melania has learned how dishonest they are, and she truly no longer cares!” Do U?” Trump defended the jacket on Twitter, writing, “‘I REALLY DON’T CARE, DO U?’ written on the back of Melania’s jacket, refers to the Fake News Media. Colbert then brought up the jacket Melania Trump wore while visiting the United States-Mexico border on Thursday (June 21) that reads “I Really Don’t Care.
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