'Tim Apple' should have been a fleeting moment. Now, it’s an 'ongoing national scandal.'
By Allyson Chiu Allyson Chiu Reporter Email Bio Follow March 12 at 6:39 AM “Tim Apple” was last week’s news.
“I quickly referred to Tim + Apple as Tim/Apple as an easy way to save time & words,” Trump wrote. As The Washington Post’s Philip Bump reported, leaving out “Cook” saved Trump a total of 0.27 seconds. TONIGHT: Remember Trump's "Tim Apple" snafu? Yeah so does the President and he won't let it go. #LSSC pic.twitter.com/S9XzebaHK4“Mr. President, words don’t just disappear from the middle of sentences unless it’s CBS bleeping me when I say excuses like this are ... insane,” Colbert said, using an expletive that was censored out.
“On their deathbed, I think everyone always says the same thing,” Colbert said before slipping into an impersonation of an elderly person. “I have only one regret that I wasted so much of my life on saying last names instead of occupations. Don’t make the same mistakes I did, little Johnny Paper Route." On NBC, Meyers ripped the excuses as “an example of one of the dumbest things Trump has ever lied about.
He continued, suggesting to Trump, “You know, if you really want to save time and words you could just not talk at all. Do all your campaign rallies with duct tape over your mouth, or at least skip a bunch of words.""We have won, and I am very totally crazy,” the heavily edited Trump announced.
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