Stephen Colbert found this part of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s RNC speech ‘absolutely chilling’

Stephen Colbert began his Monday show with an earnest condemnation of “violence and violent rhetoric” in the wake of the attempted assassination of President Trump, before launching into a humorous bit about one especially “chilling” statement Marjorie Taylor Greene made at the Republican National Convention on Monday night.

The Georgia congresswoman was one of many speakers at the RNC in Milwaukee on Monday and leaned into anti-LBGTQ+ rhetoric during her speech, insisting at one point that “there are only two genders”.

On his show, Colbert also highlighted another “absolutely chilling” comment she made on stage, rolling out a clip of her saying Donald Trump is “the leader America deserves”.

“Why?” Colbert cried. “Did we run over a witch’s cat? Did someone make a wish on a cursed chicken foot?”

Taylor Greene’s appearance at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee came a day after she took heat for multiple wild claims on her X account following the assassination attempt on Trump at a rally in rural Pennsylvania on Saturday night.

“The Democrats are the party of pedophiles, murdering the innocent unborn, violence, and bloody, meaningless, endless wars,” she wrote on X on Sunday.

“They want to lock up their political opponents and terrorize innocent Americans who would tell the truth about it. The Democrat party is flat-out evil, and yesterday they tried to murder President Trump.”

Despite Taylor Greene’s continued baseless accusations against the Democratic party, many politicians have been encouraged to tone down their political rhetoric.

However, a person involved in planning the Republican National Convention told ABC that the convention won’t just go ahead after the shooting – it’ll continue «with a vengeance».

“No! No! We’re