{"id":529292,"date":"2026-07-16T16:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/529292\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T16:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:47:08","slug":"seth-meyers-on-the-second-trump-presidency-no-one-feels-better-everyones-miserable-late-night-tv-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/529292\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth Meyers on the second Trump presidency: \u2018No one feels better, everyone\u2019s miserable\u2019 | Late-night TV roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seth Meyers discussed Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s many weaknesses as president as the US economy continues to tumble.<\/p>\n

On Late Night, the host started by covering how Donald Trump<\/a> responded to the death of his longtime loyalist Lindsey Graham<\/a>, joking that he was an \u201cempathetic president who knows when to use a deft touch\u201d before playing footage of him speculating on the cause of death.<\/p>\n

Trump said that a part of Graham\u2019s body \u201cliterally blew up\u201d according to some \u201cgreat doctors\u201d.<\/p>\n

Meyers countered: \u201cI\u2019d argue they weren\u2019t great doctors if they used language like \u2018literally blew up\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also joked that the doctor sounded like Wile E Coyote.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust be normal and have some decorum in a situation like this,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Meyers also played footage of Trump going on about different topics despite a Fox host trying to get him back on track. \u201cJust hang up on him, you\u2019re not gonna get him to stop!\u201d Meyers said.<\/p>\n

He said that Trump resembles any other 80-year-old on the phone as \u201cthey have nowhere to be, they have nothing to do\u201d so will \u201ctorture you with small talk\u201d.<\/p>\n

Meyers said that with all of the many problems affecting everyday Americans at the moment, Trump is \u201claser-focused\u201d on putting his name and face on currency.<\/p>\n

He called it \u201ca grotesque act of ego\u201d but did comment that it will be the \u201cfirst time American money will bear a signature that was also used to represent pubic hair on a dirty drawing to Jeffrey Epstein\u201d.<\/p>\n

Meyers also joked that the coin \u201clooks like a haunted coin from an Edgar Allan Poe story\u201d.<\/p>\n

He briefly touched upon the rise of the explosive diarrhea bug that he thinks RFK Jr will refer to as \u201cdiscount Ozempic\u201d.<\/p>\n

Trump has also been busy with his \u201cawesome renovation projects\u201d including making the White House look \u201clike the location for the next season of The White Lotus\u201d.<\/p>\n

Despite members of his administration claiming that he is doing a better job than Joe Biden, Meyers pointed out that his poll numbers are worse then Biden\u2019s ever were and \u201cno one feels better, everyone\u2019s miserable\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said that \u201cthings are bad, that\u2019s not just my assessment\u201d, although he would give the administration credit on one thing and that\u2019s \u201cholding firm to their principles\u201d after various Trump cronies said they would be against plans to charge a fee to pass through the strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n

Meyers said that Trump is \u201ca man of his word\u201d before showing a Truth Social post from the president suggesting a 20% fee on ships even though he doesn\u2019t control the waterway.<\/p>\n

He called it \u201cthe most disappointing thing to happen to Marco Rubio in the last 45 minutes\u201d yet Trump almost immediately walked back the plan.<\/p>\n

Meyers called it \u201canother embarrassing U-turn\u201d and said such flip-flopping was \u201cnot projecting strength\u201d.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cThis is the recurring theme of the second Trump presidency so far: he won an election on bringing down prices and making everything more affordable and now everything is worse.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seth Meyers discussed Donald Trump\u2019s many weaknesses as president as the US economy continues to tumble. On Late…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-529292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}