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On 11 July 2018, the official Twitter account for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert shared a video purportedly showing how a German news program covered President Donald Trump's participation in a NATO summit — with a presenter hysterically laughing at Trump's assertion that Germany was a captive of Russia: This footage is several years old and has nothing to do with President Trump or German news coverage of a NATO summit. Colbert's late-night television show satirically inserted an image of President Trump and German chancellor Angela Merkel into the video and created fictitious captions for humorous effect. This footage has been circulating online since at least 2010 and is actually a clip from the Austrian show Burgenland Aktuell on the former Burgenland cable TV (BKF) channel. The presenter, Nadja Ebinger, was talking about an Easter decorating custom called Eierkratzen or egg scratching, which Der Tagesspiegel explained as follows (translated via Google): The German word eier is literally translated to egg, but it is also slang for balls or testicles. Although Ebinger's report was about the tradition of Eierkratzen involving Easter eggs, she broke into a fit of giggles when she realized that she was also inadvertently offering a presentation on scratching testicles. Die Presse translated a portion of Ebinger's report as follows: Here's how the original clip from Burgenland Aktuell looked before its alteration:
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