Donald Trump is running for president. What’s that? You know that already? Is that because that’s all anyone’s been able to talk about for the past year? That makes sense. Late night hosts have been picking apart The Donald for so long and in such new and exciting ways that it feels like Trump’s been campaigning since the Johnny Carson era. That’s how much orange has popped up in the evening chat show landscape.
Late Night host Seth Meyers has been reliably brilliant in his continued vivisection of Donald Trump’s run for the White House. On Thursday’s edition of the program, Trump was once again the subject of “A Closer Look” from the former Weekend Update anchor with a rather rough week for the presidential candidate coming under the microscope. That’s the sort of thing that happens when your campaign faces such hurdles as clashes with the family of a fallen soldier, serious questions about the candidate’s understanding of the political climate in Crimea, and the whole not endorsing high profile GOP figures like Paul Ryan and John McCain thing. That last point prompted Meyers to ponder how Trump’s withheld endorsement approach was considered “the last straw” when previous straws have included everything from the infamous Mexican border wall to his controversial comments about women.
Among the things Meyers teed off on was Mike Huckabee’s claim that Trump will be less erratic and likely be separated from his Twitter account if elected as commander-in-chief.
“He’ll be way cooler and more reasonable just as soon as we give him more power,” offered Meyers in a gleefully sarcastic tone. “I’m not sure it’s all that comforting when the biggest promise you can make about your candidate is he’ll have adults around him and we’ll lock him out of his Twitter account. That’s how you handle Bieber, and it barely works with him.”
Give last night’s Late Night breakdown of Donald Trump’s, uh, unique week a gander by hitting play on the magic YouTube rectangle located at the top of the page.
