Seth Meyers on Trump’s rambling DC press conference: ‘It’s embarrassing for all of us’ | Late-night TV roundup

With most late-night hosts on vacation, Seth Meyers recaps Donald Trump’s rambling and factually inaccurate press convention about crime in Washington DC.Seth MeyersDonald Trump likes to make up numbers, from his false job statistics, to his arbitrary tariffs to his declare to decrease prescription drug costs by an not possible “1500%”. “Trump has no disgrace, so he simply retains rolling together with his made-up numbers,” mentioned Seth Meyers on Monday’s Late Evening, hours after Trump used bogus crime statistics as a justification for deploying the nationwide guard in Washington DC.The federal takeover of the capital’s police power was based mostly on “numbers that after once more make no sense”, mentioned Meyers. “And also you don’t must take it from me. CNN factchecked him reside as he was speaking” with graphics confirming that violent crime is down 26% from the yr prior, and 35% from the yr earlier than that. “We’ve had presidents who’ve lied earlier than however we’ve by no means had a president who was this simple to factcheck,” mentioned Meyers. “Who’re you going to consider, the stats on the CNN or the man who says he can decrease drug costs by 1500%?”Trump’s press convention saying the takeover was “as with all issues Trump, fully for present”, Meyers continued. “And the best way you already know that’s that the very first phrases he uttered weren’t about crime, however about his dream to construct a brand new ballroom within the White Home.”After Trump’s diversion into his need to construct a large gold ballroom within the White Home, he confirmed some charts with “statistics” on native crime and simply mentioned: “OK?”“Is that this his new catchphrase now? He’s simply going to carry up a chart and say ‘OK?’” Meyers laughed. “He’s like a lazy magician who doesn’t make you’re taking a card, he simply holds one up and acts like that’s what it was gonna be.’”Trump talked about DC “prefer it was a dystopian hellhole out of a steampunk novel”. The town, he mentioned, was “taken over by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of untamed youth, drugged-out maniacs and homeless individuals, caravans of mass youth rampage by means of metropolis streets, they’re on ATV, motorbikes, they journey fairly properly”.“So clearly what occurred is: he fell asleep watching Fox Information, rolled over on the distant, unintentionally modified the channel to HBO, wakened and noticed Mad Max: Fury Highway and thought it was nonetheless the information,” mentioned Meyers.Requested by a reporter how the crackdown on crime squared together with his administration’s reported plan to reclassify marijuana, Trump answered: “We’re it.” “Are you guys it, or smoking it like 5 occasions a day?” Meyers questioned.Marijuana use “may additionally clarify why Trump doesn’t even appear to know the place he’s or the place he’s going each day”, he added, as through the convention, Trump claimed to be going to Russia on Friday to satisfy with Vladimir Putin, when he’s really assembly with the Russian president in Alaska. “Oh fuck, did you already give away Alaska?” Meyers joked. “I can’t wait to see the information report from that assembly. The US has struck an settlement with Russia during which Russia will give again the land it stole from Ukraine and the US in return will give Russia a number of states together with Alaska, Rhode Island and New Jersey.”“In the end, I believe a lot of the Trump press convention might be summed up this manner,” mentioned Meyers, slicing to a clip of Trump saying “we’re formally declaring a public security emergency … and it’s embarrassing for me to be up right here.”“Sure,” Meyers confirmed. “In a approach, it’s embarrassing for all of us.”