Seth Meyers on Trump led Monday’s Late Night monologue, taking aim at Donald Trump’s claims about China and the 2020 election, his proposed tariffs on Canadian goods, and a push for tighter voting rules.
Seth Meyers on Trump
Responding to reports that Trump’s second-term approval numbers are the lowest of any U.S. president this century, trailing Barack Obama and George W. Bush, Meyers cracked that Trump is faring worse than Bush during the Iraq war. He joked about Bush’s reflexes when he dodged a thrown shoe, then contrasted that with Trump, riffing that the former president would not be as quick to evade a similar toss.
Meyers noted that Trump’s standing is weak not only among Democrats but also among voters with no party affiliation. Citing a Washington Post survey, he said Trump is performing worse with independents than Richard Nixon during Watergate.
After a CNN anchor described the figures as “quite troubling,” Meyers mocked the understatement with an extended bit about a disastrous medical X-ray. Turning to foreign interference claims, Meyers highlighted a recent speech in which Trump alleged that China illegally obtained 220 million U.S. voter records in a pattern dating to 2020.
Meyers questioned why Trump would raise an issue from that year and delivered a quip likening the tone of the remarks to a drunken rant. The host added that much of the voter data Trump referenced is publicly available or can be purchased legally from states for a nominal fee.
He said even some within Trump’s circle acknowledged after the speech that there remains no substantiated evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election. Meyers also addressed Trump’s announcement of steep tariffs on Canadian imports, with fees as high as 50 percent on products such as cement and hockey sticks.
He called the inclusion of hockey sticks an insult to Canada and joked that the move was akin to Ottawa taxing a quintessentially American habit. Finally, Meyers criticized Trump’s call for Congress to require voters to present a passport or birth certificate at polling places, a step that voting rights advocates say would disenfranchise millions.
He ended the segment with a gag about how few people can readily locate their birth certificates. For more on the intersection of public backlash and political decisions, see our coverage of the MOCA Chinatown jail grant.
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