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: