Stephen Colbert takes a ‘Late Show’ phone call from Donald Trump

But last night was kind of a different scenario when Colbert had Trump on the show, via the “Trump Phone”.

Colbert then brought out “The Trump Phone”-an orange landline, complete with obligatory toupee-to take a call from Trump, who’s campaigning in SC”.

“The Senate really has the right to do it”, Trump said.

Colbert kicked things off with a tough question: “What are you wearing?”

The two men discussed politics and Trump’s alleged “potty mouth”.

On Tuesday, Stephen Colbert challenged Donald Trump to call in to the Late Show while campaigning in the comedian’s home state of SC.

“To any of my friends whose pets died or are going through a divorce, your tragedy is not hilarious to me.”

“Hello, Stephen”, Trump responded.

To illustrate the point, Colbert recalled a brief but memorable encounter with Scalia at the White House Correspondents Dinner in 2006 – the year Colbert mercilessly roasted President George W. Bush in a now-infamous performance. “And so I’d just like to say one last time: Justice Scalia, I salute you” – making the same obscene Italian gesture that Scalia loved so much. But four months later, with Trump still the nominee to beat, Colbert, at least, seems done playing softball.

Colbert was floored. “So you would let someone tell you what to do? This is sounding less like Donald Trump“.

The host of the CBS late night broadcast started his show with a call from the GOP frontrunner. Colbert gave a bit of a recap on that, congratulated Kendrick Lamar on his success at the Grammys and also congratulated Taylor Swift, before getting down to the Kanye business.

Colbert asked the caller to prove that he was actually Donald Trump by saying something only he would say.