Seth Meyers was going places Tuesday to mock Donald Trump’s renaming jag. (Watch the video below.)
The “Late Night” host noted that among Trump’s glut of new executive orders this week is a bid to rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America” and to revert Alaska’s Mount Denali to “Mount McKinley.”
“I wouldn’t get too comfortable if I lived here,” Meyers quipped as a map of New Mexico appeared onscreen. The audience laughed, but the comedian wasn’t done.
Adopting his Trump impersonation voice, Meyers imagined the president telling the state and its residents: “You’re just ‘New.’ You just put a piece of tape over the license plate.”
Watch Meyers’ remarks on New Mexico at the 38-second mark in the video below.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Trump’s former Republican primary rival, used “Gulf of America” in a weather warning the same day Trump issued his edict in a possible attempt to stay in the president’s good graces.
But a state simply called “New”? Even for Trump and other conservatives, that might be going too far.