Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump said he would nominate someone to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court if he was President, in a call-in interview with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday night.
Host Stephen Colbert asked Trump, via the “Trump Phone,” if he would let the Senate tell him to not nominate someone to the Supreme Court.
“The Senate really has the right to do it,” Trump said. “Certainly, if I was President, regardless of who that may be, I guess I’d put in a name. The Senate really does, especially for this fairly short period of time, they have the right not to do it.”
If he was President, he “would be pushing” for a nominee, Trump added.
Trump said Tuesday his phone-interview on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” would be a “late-night first.”
Colbert also gave Trump a suggestion to help with his cursing.
“I’ve got a suggestion. Why don’t you have a swear jar? Every time you say a bad word, you put a billion dollars in it,” Colbert suggested.
Watch the clip, from CBS, below:
Trump, proving to republicans once again, that he is not their man. Off message according to the republican obstructionist playbook and ignorantly talking about the “right” of the president and the Senate to fulfill their constitutional obligations. Trump is the gift (to Dems) that keeps on giving. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer party.
That’s some Palinesque word salad there.
I am repulsed by the phone-in candidate and his irreverent spews…I do not want a hiding, phone in bullboy.
He could turn the nomination process in to a TV reality show, Supreme Court Apprentice. Think of the ratings.
I don’t know if somebody calling in is a late-night first. But I thought from the headline that Donald Trump understood at least one basic fact about how the U.S. government works, and that, certainly, would have set a new precedent. As it turned out…nope. But it’s a long primary season so I guess there’s still time.