Stephen Colbert recently confessed that he’d love to switch bodies with President Donald Trump — and the reason is very practical.
On December 12, the Late Show host, 61, was featured in Slate‘s Political Gabfest for its 20th anniversary show in New York City. Co-host John Dickerson asked Colbert at one point. “If you could slip into the body of a person for 24 hours, who would it be?”
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