Late Night has returned from its two-week break with gusto, with host Seth Meyers immediately diving in to tackle former U.S. president Donald Trump’s 34 criminal convictions.
“I wanted to start by addressing the pessimists who say, ‘I don’t think this conviction will make a difference’: Not! Today!” said Meyers. “Do you hear me? Not! Today! You may very well be right it might make no difference at all, but you don’t get to talk about that today!”
Meyers also addressed a recent interview in which Trump bizarrely claimed never said “lock her up” about his political opponent Hilary Clinton, and hadn’t called for her to be jailed.
“That’s like Bart Simpson claiming he never said ‘cowabunga,'” quipped a baffled Meyers. “What’s… What’s the play here? Maybe this is his plan, to send me into an existential crisis trying to choose between proving he’s lying to an audience who already knows he’s lying, or not showing the clip, which sure, saves us time, but also lets him off the hook. But doing that risks falling into the same trap the media continues to fall into with Trump, where the flood of lies, contradictions, and mistruths is so unending that you throw up your hands and say, ‘what does it even even matter?’ What’s the play here?“
Meyers then ran a supercut of Trump calling for Clinton and other Democrats to be jailed, because when a shot’s that easy you just have to take it.
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