Thanks to NBC’s coverage of the Rio Olympics in August, Late Night with Seth Meyers viewers haven’t heard all that much about Chicago President, the scripted series its host keeps offering Donald Trump. Never fear, for Meyers returned to the subject on Wednesday with a brand new update. One that, unfortunately, doesn’t bode well for Trump’s post-campaign future should he lose to Hillary Clinton in November. You see, Meyers and the Late Night team decided to take a page out of the book Trump mostly-ish wrote and, as a result, downgraded their original deal.
“I picked up [The Art of the Deal] from one of those guys in New York who sells books on the sidewalk,” Meyers joked. He then reminded the audience of Late Night‘s proposed deal with Trump — that if the Republican nominee dropped out, NBC would give him a scripted series in which he’d play the President of the United States. In Chicago. Yet the Donald’s bad showing in recent polls encouraged Meyers to reconsider, especially after reading Art of the Deal:
“What I realized after reading it is leverage is key in a negotiation. And I realized, right now, I have all the leverage. Because when we first made the offer, Trump was close in the polls, but now he’s trailing badly. So on that note, I would like to say directly to Donald Trump: We are now decreasing our original offer.”
So what’s the new offer? Trump would play vice president to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s Chicago-based President of the United States. What’s more, the Late Night host cautioned that if Trump “[thinks] it sounds terrible now, it could be even worse a week from now.” Why? Because he’s currently tied with Clinton in Georgia, and his lead over the Democratic nominee in Republican Arizona is only 1.5 points.
At least if Arizona goes blue, Meyers is still willing to offer Trump a “one-episode series on Taxi TV” in which he plays the White House janitor. So there’s that.