Stephen Colbert thinks President Obama is riding his “moat-tails” by stealing his idea to put an alligator-filled moat along the Mexican border.
In a speech on immigration this week, Obama said that no matter what he does, Republicans keep complaining that he’s not doing enough — even if he does exactly what they asked him to do in the first place.
Colbert said he wasn’t fooled by Obama’s speech, calling it out as a thinly veiled campaign event to attract Latino voters.
“A total Latino panderfest,” Colbert said. “Excuse me, pander-fiesta.”
But when Obama joked that it might take a moat and alligators to please Republicans, Colbert said he’d gone too far. That idea, as Colbert showed by rolling old clips from his show, is one Colbert himself had proposed multiple times in the past.
“This fits a pattern for Obama,” Colbert said. “He stole my idea for moat gators just like he stole President Bush’s idea of killing bin Laden, and George Washington’s idea of being President.”
Watch the video below:
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