{"id":566304,"date":"2026-03-26T20:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/566304\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T20:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:23:10","slug":"seth-meyers-on-donald-trumps-present-from-iran-is-the-president-getting-catfished-late-night-tv-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/566304\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth Meyers on Donald Trump\u2019s \u2018present\u2019 from Iran: \u2018Is the president getting catfished?\u2019 | Late-night TV roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Late-night hosts speculated on Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s mystery \u201cpresent\u201d from Iran<\/a>, as well as his delusions about a war he claims the US is not in.<\/p>\n

Seth Meyers<\/p>\n

On Wednesday\u2019s Late Night, Seth Meyers<\/a> reminded viewers, once again, that Donald Trump \u201cpromised no more wars in the Middle East\u201d before his recent military strikes on Iran.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cBut you guys, good news! It\u2019s not a war,\u201d he joked. Instead, according to Trump, it\u2019s an \u201cexcursion\u201d or \u201ca little journey\u201d in Iran. \u201cStop calling it an excursion!\u201d Meyers exclaimed. \u201cAn excursion is a vacation, which no one can afford because gas is so fucking expensive. Also, an excursion doesn\u2019t last three weeks! An excursion is one week, max. The only people who go on excursions for three weeks are rich kids who claim they\u2019re backpacking through Europe but then post a photo from the Ritz in Barcelona.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump can\u2019t tell us what the goal of the war is, or how long it will last, or when it will end,\u201d he added. \u201cOne minute he says he\u2019s talking to Iran, the next minute Iran says they\u2019re not talking to Trump. One breath he\u2019s sending more troops, the next he\u2019s offering a peace deal. One day he\u2019s threatening to obliterate Iran\u2019s power plants, the next he\u2019s saying stuff\u201d about an alleged \u201cpresent\u201d from the country\u2019s leaders. \u201cThey gave us a present, and the present arrived today,\u201d Trump vaguely teased reporters this week. \u201cA very big present worth a tremendous amount of money.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSeriously, what \u2013 and I say this with all due respect \u2013 the fuck are you talking about?\u201d Meyers wondered. \u201cI mean not only will he not tell the us the present they gave him, he doesn\u2019t even seem to be clear on who \u2018they\u2019 are.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho is \u2018they\u2019?!\u201d he asked after even more clips of Trump dithering on the gift givers. \u201cWhat do you mean you don\u2019t know and he\u2019s a \u2018top person\u2019 and they \u2018seem to be running it\u2019? Is the president getting catfished?\u201d<\/p>\n

Jimmy Kimmel<\/p>\n

On Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> Live!, the host celebrated the win of Democrat Emily Gregory in a special Florida state election which flipped<\/a> Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago district blue for the first time in years. It\u2019s \u201ca real kick in the golf balls for Mar-a-Lardo\u201d, Kimmel said, laughing. \u201cLet\u2019s just say there are a lot of tiny fist-sized holes getting punched in the White House drywall today.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Monday, Trump offered his \u201ccomplete and total endorsement\u201d to Gregory\u2019s Republican opponent, Jon Maples, because \u201cJon will never let you down!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd he\u2019s right, he won\u2019t \u2013 because he\u2019s back to work as a financial planner. He lost the race,\u201d said Kimmel. \u201cThe idea that Trump voted by mail at the same time he tried to ram this \u2018save my fat orange ass\u2019 act through Congress right now, which is a bill that would do away with mail-in ballots, has put leaders in the GOP in a bit of a pickle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked about \u201cthis latest act of brazen hypocrisy\u201d, Mike Johnson, the Republican speaker of the House, attempted to sidestep. \u201cI think some states have handled mail-in voting well,\u201d he said. \u201cI think Florida is a good example of that. They don\u2019t allow fraud, they\u2019ve got great systems. That is not true in other parts of the country,\u201d like California.<\/p>\n

\u201cListen, I\u2019ve lived in both states,\u201d said Kimmel, \u201cand the only thing Florida does better is get manatees addicted to meth, all right? If you\u2019re looking to buy a hotdog from a woman in a G-string, Florida is the place you want to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

The host then touched on reports that Pentagon officials provided Trump with daily \u201csizzle reels\u201d of military strikes in Iran to boost his mood. \u201cJust step back and think about this: every day, they\u2019re bringing him these fun little action movies of us blowing stuff up,\u201d Kimmel fumed. \u201cEveryone\u2019s telling him how great he\u2019s doing. He\u2019s got four whole cable networks dedicated to kissing his ass 24\/7. His staff is terrified to ever bring him any bad news, and he has the memory of a worm at the bottom of a bottle of mezcal. And this is the man in charge of sending our children to war \u2013 at least the ones whose dads don\u2019t have a good podiatrist to get them out of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur own government is making war propaganda videos for the person running the war,\u201d he concluded. \u201cEven Kim Jong-un is like, \u2018That\u2019s a bit much!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The Daily Show<\/p>\n

And on The Daily Show, Josh Johnson evaluated Trump\u2019s claim that the US had won the war in Iran. Or, as Trump put it: \u201cYou know, I don\u2019t like to say this, we\u2019ve won this. This war has been won.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t like to say you\u2019ve won a war?\u201d said a confused Johnson. \u201cIsn\u2019t that why you fight a war? Be proud of yourself, Mr President, you ended another war! And this is the one that you started! That\u2019s like double points, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n

Iran state media, on the other hand, reported that Tehran will not accept a ceasefire and will end the war \u201cwhen it decides to do so and when its own conditions are met\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhoa, you can\u2019t end the war \u2013 we ended the war!\u201d Johnson joked. \u201cAre you trying to start another war? \u2019Cause I\u2019ll fight you, and then I\u2019ll stop fighting you when I feel like it, cause the war is over. You heard the president \u2013 we won, we\u2019re bringing the troops home!\u201d<\/p>\n

Except, actually, for the more than 1,000 additional troops are now headed to the Middle East, joining thousands more already on their way. \u201cOh shit. We\u2019re sending more troops? That doesn\u2019t sound like the war is over,\u201d Johnson noted. \u201cThis is very confusing. Should I or shouldn\u2019t I go to Times Square in my sailor outfit to kiss random women?\u201d<\/p>\n

The army also just raised its maximum recruitment age to 42, up from 35, in an effort to draw more recruits. \u201cOh shit. We\u2019re letting 42-year-olds sign up for the military now? They\u2019re going to have to change the name from Operation Epic Fury to Operation Why Does My Back Hurt?\u201d Johnson quipped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Late-night hosts speculated on Donald Trump\u2019s mystery \u201cpresent\u201d from Iran, as well as his delusions about a war…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-566304","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\/566304","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=566304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}