Seth Meyers returns with ‘A Closer Look’ at a chaotic 2 weeks in politics

Like many of the late night show hosts, Seth Meyers returned from vacation on Monday night ready to go right back.

The last two weeks of news have been undeniably chaotic, from Elon Musk’s Grok AI calling itself ‘MechaHitler’ and going on an antisemitic spree to President Donald Trump getting ratioed on his own Truth Social after urging people to move on from Jeffrey Epstein. And on Late Night, Meyers tried to cover it all.

“If you thought we’d come back from our two-week break with a laundry list of good news, well, I’m sorry, but you clearly haven’t been watching this show,” said Meyers. “If the news gets any worse we’re going to have to start doing ‘A Closer Look’ in black and white and change the title to French.”

Meyers then lists everything that went down when Late Night was off, and it’s a lot.

“In the past two weeks, Republicans forced through a heinous plan to kick millions off health insurance to pay for tax cuts for billionaires, even though their own members said the bill was bad before they voted for it. The White House and Kristi Noem faced intense criticism for their handling of the tragic Texas floods. Trump announced more arbitrary tariffs that even his own administration couldn’t defend. The AI chatbot operated by the world’s richest man went on an unhinged antisemitic rant and called itself ‘MechaHitler’. And Florida opened up a gruesome new detention centre for migrants and even their stupid nicknames for the prison make it sound really bad.”

Then, Meyers turns focus to Trump’s continued press criticism and Truth Social urging for people to move on from convicted child sex offender Epstein, in a similarly spot-on response to that given by The Daily Show‘s Ronny Chieng.

“How dare you fixate on a story from the past, something Donald Trump has never done?” said Meyers. “He’s focused on the issues of today, not the 2020 election, or the Russia investigation, or Hunter Biden’s laptop, or Hillary Clinton’s email server, Joe Biden’s autopen, or Rosie O’Donnell making fun of him, or his ratings for The Apprentice, which ended in 2015, or deceased golfer Arnold Palmer’s unusually large penis, which, by the way, we have yet to see definitive proof of.”