Seth Meyers said he had a whole “Closer Look” planned until Donald Trump’s chaotic Tuesday press conference made him throw it out the window.
“What a welcome back for us!” the “Late Night” host said Tuesday in his first show since the holidays, describing Trump’s remarks at his Florida Mar-a-Lago club as “one of the most insane press conferences he’s ever had.”
He said Trump “claimed, among other things, that special counsel Jack Smith executes people, Wayne Gretzky should run for prime minister of Canada, electric heaters make you itchy, faucets have no water, said he’s going to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, and he won’t rule out using the military to take over Greenland.”
The rambling, 70-minute press conference contained a mishmash of grievances, conspiracy theories, boasts, miscellaneous musings and threats.
“My man is in mid season form already!” Meyers exclaimed.
“We had a whole ‘Closer Look’ written this morning about all the major news stories that had already happened over the break,” he said, adding, “but now that’s all out the window. We got to tear up our script and start over.”
“By the way, this already happened almost exactly eight years ago, when I had to shred the script for ‘A Closer Look’ after Trump’s first press conference as president, which was similarly insane,” he lamented. “I can’t believe we’re doing this all over again, except, you know, this time I’m not wearing a suit.”
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