Seth Meyers thinks that Donald Trump is scared to release his current tax returns for a very good reason: Trump isn’t as rich as he says he is. This is a theory Hillary Clinton brought up at the first presidential debate and Meyers has mentioned on the show before, but it almost seems like that could be the truth at this point. Trump is certainly not too upset about the leak of his 1995 tax return to the New York Times and most of his supporters are calling him a genius across cable news in order to spin the entire thing as a positive for the GOP nominee.
So Meyers concludes, after taking a closer look at the entire situation, that Trump won’t release his tax returns because his financials aren’t at the level he likes to portray them at:
I think you’re poor. I think you pretend to be rich, but you’ve going town to town for eighteen months selling cheap hats.
He loads on a few other jokes, like Trump tweeting at 3 am because he’s also working another job for an Indian call center at the time and saying that he only want to be president because of the free tomatoes he could get from Michelle Obama’s garden. Meyers then jumps to Trump not actually wanting to be president once again, calling back to Late Night’s long-running offer for Trump to join Chicago President and drop out of the race. It’s all just a long way to say that Trump leaked his own taxes from Trump Tower and is really just the mastermind behind it all. He doesn’t want the presidency because the pay is too low and he’s doing whatever he can to get out of it.
Maybe South Park isn’t too far off with their storyline this season?
(Via Late Night)