‘F*** you’: Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers reach same conclusion on Trump’s birther announcement

Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers devoted segments of their respective late-night shows Monday to Donald Trump’s birther announcement — and both were punctuated with a nearly identical insult.

“President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period,” Trump said at a hastily scheduled event Friday at his new Washington, D.C., hotel.

“F*** you, exclamation point,” both Colbert and Meyers said after clips of Trump’s remarks were shown on CBS’ “The Late Show” and NBC’s “Late Night.”

The hosts both skewered the Republican nominee for falsely claiming his opponent, Hillary Clinton, initiated the movement questioning Obama’s birthplace, and that he somehow “finished” it.

“Here’s the deal,” Colbert said. “You don’t get to flog this issue for five years and then act like you’re correcting everybody else. We’re not crazy. We were there. We all saw you do it. Even the people who support you saw you do it. It’s why they support you.”

Meyers expressed a similar sentiment.

“You don’t get to peddle racist rhetoric for five years and [then] get to decide when it’s over,” Meyers said. “We decide when it’s over. And it’s certainly not over after a 30-second statement in the middle of a hotel commercial.”

Each show played lengthy sizzle reels of Trump keeping the birther conspiracy afloat to discredit the Trump campaign’s claims that the candidate stopped doing so in 2011, after Obama famously released his long form birth certificate.

“Questioning the legitimacy of the first black president was the centerpiece of Donald Trump’s political career,” Meyers said. “The bottom line is this: Trump built his career on a racist lie because he’s a racist and a liar.”

Colbert, former host of “The Colbert Report,” even directed CBS viewers to search Comedy Central’s online archive for a 2012 episode of his old show in which he trolled Trump’s birther-related offer of $5 million to Obama if the president released his college records.

“I offered $1 million to the charity of your choice if you, Donald Trump, would let me dip my balls in your mouth,” Colbert recalled. “Now, for some reason, Donald, you did not take the deal. I’m going to guess it was because your mouth was already full of Vladimir Putin’s balls.”

Meanwhile, Colbert’s former Comedy Central colleague Samantha Bee joined a chorus of critics who were outraged over Jimmy Fallon’s toothless interview with Trump on Thursday’s “Tonight Show.”

On Monday’s “Full Frontal,” Bee blasted NBC for “tacitly [condoning] a race-baiting demagogue.”

“Why do so many Americans think playing footsie with fringe hate groups isn’t a disqualifier from polite society, much less the presidency?” Bee asked. “Maybe because that’s the message they get from entertainment giants like NBC.”

“I guess because ratings matter more than brown people,” she continued. “Sure, he’s making life palpably dangerous for Muslims and immigrants, but, hey, he’s good entertainment!”

The TBS host added: “Network execs, and a lot of their audience, can ignore how very dangerous Trump is because to them, he isn’t. They’re not gonna be deported. They’re not gonna live under a president who thinks of them as a collection of sex toys. They’re not racist — they just don’t mind if other people are. Which is just as bad.”