Seth Meyers on Maga’s Epstein scandal: ‘They did this to themselves’ | Late-night TV roundup

Late-night hosts continued to trace the fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal that Donald Trump simply gained’t let go and the Environmental Safety Company giving up on the atmosphere.Seth MeyersSeth Meyers continued to relish Donald Trump’s Jeffrey Epstein scandal that simply gained’t go away, because the president was hounded by questions on his friendship with the convicted intercourse offender whereas in Scotland. “They did this to themselves,” the Late Night time host mentioned of Maga’s Epstein quagmire. “That is like if after Trump screamed they’re consuming the canines in a debate, Donald Trump began consuming the canine.”Regardless of Trump’s evident frustration with the subject, “individuals haven’t moved on, as a result of Trump and his Maga mates spent years cynically hyping up the Epstein conspiracy,” Meyers defined on Wednesday night. “They thought solely their political enemies could be harmed. However they both forgot or utterly ignored the truth that Trump was Epstein’s finest buddy. It’s like basing a complete political motion round your opposition to Bert, after which voting for Ernie for president.”Meyers then poked enjoyable at Trump’s many defenses in opposition to the Epstein scandal, beginning along with his declare that he didn’t ship a lewd birthday greeting to Epstein that includes a nude drawing of a lady, as reported by the Wall Road Journal. As Trump mentioned: “I don’t do drawings of ladies.”“The best way you retain saying ‘I don’t do drawings of ladies,’ as a substitute of simply saying ‘I don’t do drawings of individuals’ makes it sound such as you do a ton of drawings of dudes,” Meyers laughed.Trump then “dug the outlet deeper” by saying that his friendship with Epstein ended solely as a result of Epstein employed workers out from below him.“That’s not serving to you, dude! Going out of your option to clarify that you simply reduce ties with a monster not as a result of he was a monster, however as a result of he employed individuals away from you makes you sound even worse,” mentioned Meyers. “That’s like saying you stopped inviting Charles Manson to events as a result of he wouldn’t use a coaster.”Requested on the flight again from Scotland if the employees Epstein employed away from Trump have been younger girls, the president responded: “Nicely, I don’t need to say, however everybody is aware of the individuals who have been taken. And the idea of taking individuals who work for me is unhealthy.” He then confirmed that they have been certainly younger girls who labored on the spa – “an incredible spa, probably the greatest spas on the planet”.Meyers simply laughed – “If this have been a Regulation & Order episode, proper about right here is the place Trump’s legal professional would flip to Jack McCoy and say, ‘He doesn’t say any extra till we’ve a deal.’”Stephen ColbertOn the Late Present, Stephen Colbert reacted to information that the Environmental Safety Company (EPA) is in search of to throw out the “endangerment discovering” from 2009 that discovered that greenhouse gases endanger well being and public welfare. Eliminating the rule will enable the Trump administration to scrap guidelines to scale back local weather air pollution from automobiles and vehicles.“OK, however you’re the Environmental Safety Company. You’re supposed to guard the atmosphere!” Colbert fumed. “You’re simply giving up? This explains why Woodsy Owl has up to date his catchphrase to: ‘Why give a hoot? I’m simply filling my pockets with rocks and strolling into the river like Virginia Woolf.’”Trump’s EPA head, Lee Zeldin, appeared on Fox Information with the power secretary, Chris Wright, to push again on what they see as a “local weather change hoax”. “The objective is to revive confidence in science and knowledge and rationalism,” Wright mentioned. “That’s what enabled the creation of recent science, then we slid again into this sort of cancel tradition, Orwellian squelching of science.”“Good attempt, fellas, however it makes it arduous to dismiss international warming while you’re sharing the display with a warmth index of 126 levels in Missouri,” Colbert responded.In “extra proof” that “the Earth is mad at us,” there was additionally a robust 8.8 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Russia’s jap Kamchatka peninsula. There have been just a few accidents, even if the quake occurred alongside Russia’s so-called “megathrust” fault line. “Sure, the Megathrust Fault, which is correct subsequent to Humpmaster Canyon and the Cape of I Had a Massive Dinner, Can We Simply Watch Gilded Age?” Colbert joked.