{"id":69556,"date":"2025-08-14T17:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T17:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/69556\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T17:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T17:40:13","slug":"seth-meyers-says-trump-deserves-best-original-screenplay-for-fake-conversation-about-kennedy-center-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/69556\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth Meyers Says Trump Deserves Best Original Screenplay for Fake Conversation About Kennedy Center Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Trump announced himself as this year\u2019s Kennedy Center Honors host on Wednesday, immediately complaining about the job and saying he was begged to do it. And if there\u2019s any award Trump deserves, Seth Meyers thinks it\u2019s Best Original Screenplay for the conversation where said begging supposedly occurred.<\/p>\n

According to Trump, when he was asked to host the awards, he called the people \u201cfools\u201d and told them that, as president, he has more important things to do. When they purportedly tried to encourage him by dangling the possibility of high ratings, he still said no. Then, apparently, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles told Trump to do it, and he immediately relented.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWell, I think you deserve the award for Best Original Screenplay, because that\u2019s definitely a fake conversation that did not happen,\u201d Seth Meyers sniped during his \u201cA Closer Look\u201d segment. \u201cNo part of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meyers\u2019 award suggestion came directly in response to Trump wanting one desperately. Shortly after explaining how he came to be the host of this year\u2019s show, Trump complained further that he\u2019s never been named a Kennedy Center honoree himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted one, I was never able to get one. It\u2019s true, actually,\u201d he said. \u201cI would\u2019ve taken it if they would\u2019ve called me. I waited, and waited, and waited. Then I said to hell with it, I\u2019ll become chairman. And I\u2019ll give myself an honor. Next year we\u2019ll honor Trump, OK?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI like how everyone laughs at him and then he says, \u2018Well, it\u2019s true actually,’\u201d Meyers mocked.<\/p>\n

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Jokes aside, the \u201cLate Night\u201d host fully expects Trump to follow through on his idea next year.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s definitely not joking about giving himself an award,\u201d Meyers said. \u201cThis is a guy who made a fake Time magazine cover for himself to hang on his wall, and repeatedly claimed that he won an award called Michigan Man of the Year, despite the fact that the state does not give out a Man of the Year Award, and Trump has never lived in Michigan.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI have no trouble believing that he\u2019d give himself a made-up award called the Kennedy Center Lifetime Achievement Nobel Prize EGOT Award for Most Everything, and the award will just be like a little golden statue of himself getting an award,\u201d Meyers continued.<\/p>\n

You can watch Seth Meyers\u2019 full \u201cA Closer Look\u201d segment in the video above.<\/p>\n

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