{"id":51036,"date":"2025-08-07T18:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T18:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/51036\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T18:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T18:43:07","slug":"seth-meyers-on-donald-trump-his-brain-is-total-mush-late-night-tv-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/51036\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth Meyers on Donald Trump: \u2018His brain is total mush\u2019 | Late-night TV roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Late-night hosts respond to Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s rooftop press conference and other distractions from Texas<\/a> Republicans\u2019 attempt to rig the midterm elections.<\/p>\n

Seth Meyers<\/p>\n

\u201cTexas Republicans have caused a national uproar with their plan to rig the 2026 midterms by redrawing their congressional maps,\u201d said Seth Meyers<\/a> on Wednesday\u2019s Late Night. \u201cAlso, the president was seen wandering around on the roof of the White House. And therein lies the constant tension of the Trump era: Republicans doing something nefarious that will undermine democracy, while the president does something weird and dumb that distracts us.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it\u2019s not like you can ignore it,\u201d he added. \u201cIf the president pops up on the roof of the White House, out of nowhere, that\u2019s at least worth a mention on the news. I mean, if Obama had been caught climbing out a window in the middle of the night, I\u2019m pretty sure Fox News would\u2019ve covered it.\u201d<\/p>\n

All in all: \u201cToo much is happening, and it\u2019s impossible for our brains to absorb all of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meyers started with Trump\u2019s rooftop conference on Tuesday. \u201cOK, what, and I mean this as exhaustedly as possible, the fuck?\u201d he wondered. \u201cThis looks like one of those human interest stories where firefighters have to rescue a dog that got stuck on the roof.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meyers theorized that Trump, with his approval rating now at an all-time low, went on the roof because \u201che can\u2019t answer your questions if he can\u2019t hear them. If his poll numbers get any worse, he\u2019s going to start doing press conferences on top of the Washington monument.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thankfully, \u201ca crew of firefighters did eventually lure the president down from the roof with a Big Mac on a string\u201d, Meyers joked. Later in the day, the president attended an event about the 2028 Olympics in California. \u201cAnd if you thought wandering around on the roof might be a warning sign about his mental competency, his rant about California wildfires made clear: his brain is total mush.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s rant mentioned the Pacific Ocean, a tiny fish called the \u201csmelt\u201d, the Pacific north-west releasing the \u201cfull complement of water\u201d to California and, of course, Gavin Newsom. (Contrary to what Trump implied, there is no water supply from the Pacific north-west that connects to California.) \u201cWhat does he mean?\u201d Meyers wondered, before proposing his theory: \u201cTrump thinks water flows from the north to the south \u2026 In Trump\u2019s mind, the north part of the state is literally higher up in the air than the south.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a theory that tracks with Trump\u2019s general understanding of the world. Or, as Meyers put it, \u201che doesn\u2019t understand gravity or, like, maps\u201d.<\/p>\n

Stephen Colbert<\/p>\n

\u201cI know that Trump\u2019s followers get a lot of grief from people going, \u2018Oh, you don\u2019t believe in anything, it\u2019s a cult of personality, blah blah blah,\u2019\u201d said Stephen Colbert<\/a> on The Late Show. \u201cBut I want to be fair here \u2013 there is one thing that Maga has believed from the beginning and they still believe it. And that\u2019s that there is a secret cabal of top government officials who meet at shadowy dinners to strategize how to hide the sins of wealthy sex traffickers and pedophiles.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey do believe that, and for that, I have never criticized them,\u201d he continued. \u201cBecause I\u2019m sure that kind of stuff does go on. For instance, tonight in Washington,\u201d where top Trump officials gathered to discuss the president\u2019s strategy for handling the scandal over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, at a dinner hosted by JD Vance.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow look, many things are shocking about that headline,\u201d said Colbert. \u201cFirst of all, this Epstein crisis has made Trump officials so desperate, they\u2019re willing to hang out with JD Vance.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to Vance, the dinner reportedly included the White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles; the US attorney general, Pam Bondi; the deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche; and the FBI director, Kash Patel. CNN was the first to report the meeting, which Vance\u2019s office then denied. \u201cNow they\u2019re covering up the cover-up!\u201d Colbert fumed. \u201cThis is worse than a conspiracy. It\u2019s a duvet.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDinner or no dinner, the Eyes Wide Shut supper still has to decide what to do with the transcript of the Ghislaine Maxwell interview,\u201d Colbert continued. Ever since Blanche met with Maxwell, serving a 20-year sentence for sex-trafficking minors, the justice department has been digitizing, transcribing and redacting the interview materials. \u201cOh, I bet they have!\u201d Colbert laughed. \u201c\u2018Let\u2019s see, control-F, find Donald Trump \u2026 replace with Gayle King.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cAs they redacted the truth into a shallow grave,\u201d he added, Trump officials are considering releasing the interview, although they\u2019re reportedly concerned that making details of it public would bring the Epstein controversy back to the surface. \u201cBack to the surface?!\u201d Colbert laughed. \u201cIt\u2019s way above the surface, man! This controversy is all the way up on the roof!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything about this story is as shady as a cave,\u201d he concluded. Maxwell was transferred to a cushier prison in Texas, and now sources are saying that she told the justice department that Trump never did anything concerning around her. \u201cWell, he\u2019s in the clear!\u201d Colbert mocked. \u201cGood work, gentleman! I know we all had our suspicions, but the convicted sex trafficker of underage girls didn\u2019t see anything that concerned her. No red flags for Ghislaine during her decade-long career of underage sex trafficking. She said right here in the transcript: \u2018What was Donald Trump doing with Jeffrey Epstein? Nothing that concerned me, Ghislaine Maxwell, sex trafficker. I would\u2019ve done what he did. Well, back to my normal non-concerning workaday grindstone \u2026 of sex trafficking.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Late-night hosts respond to Donald Trump\u2019s rooftop press conference and other distractions from Texas Republicans\u2019 attempt to rig…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-51036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}