{"id":624555,"date":"2026-10-08T17:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T17:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/624555\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T17:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T17:24:11","slug":"seth-meyers-on-trump-speaks-in-mangled-incoherent-half-sentences-that-no-one-can-understand-late-night-tv-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/624555\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth Meyers on Trump: \u2018Speaks in mangled, incoherent half-sentences that no one can understand\u2019 | Late-night TV roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Late-night hosts dug into Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s incoherent statements on Iran and his plan to turn his Florida golf course into a Camp David-style retreat.<\/p>\n

Seth Meyers<\/p>\n

On Wednesday\u2019s Late Night, Seth Meyers<\/a> took a closer look into Trump\u2019s delusions of power and indecipherable statements. \u201cTrump thinks his power is virtually unlimited, and polls have shown people hate that,\u201d he said. \u201cA majority of voters say Trump is dangerous and corrupt, and yet Trump is doubling down.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a president who\u2019s enamored with his own power and thinks he knows it all, which is kind of a bad combination, especially since half the time we have no idea what the hell he\u2019s talking about,\u201d he added, \u201cas he illustrated on Monday with an offhand comment in which he tried to argue that high gas prices caused by the war in Iran were a small price to pay to prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut as usual, he was incoherent.\u201d At said rally in Nebraska, Trump said: \u201cIt\u2019s a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe. They can take out a city. Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay, and it\u2019s going to be over with very soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meyers attempted to translate: \u201cI think what Trump was trying to say is that Iran had a nuclear weapon, they could take out Los Angeles or San Diego, which is why the war and the high prices caused by the war are a small price to pay in comparison,\u201d he said. \u201cBut, real quick, why is it on us to translate the president\u2019s words into plain English?!<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a singularly powerful person in a singularly powerful office, so it\u2019s bad that he speaks in mangled, incoherent half-sentences that no one can understand and works out premises on the fly like a comedian at open mic night,\u201d Meyers ranted. \u201cEven if it\u2019s true that Trump was saying that Iran shouldn\u2019t be able to nuke LA or San Diego, it\u2019s bad that people can\u2019t understand what the hell the president is saying on a daily basis.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the president cannot speak in clear, coherent sentences that everyone can understand, that\u2019s bad,\u201d he concluded. \u201cEspecially when he\u2019s enamored with his own power and surrounded by people who can tell him whatever he wants.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jimmy Kimmel<\/p>\n

And in Los Angeles, Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> reacted to news that Trump hopes to turn his Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, into a Camp David-style retreat for foreign leaders and future presidents.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt least he\u2019s open to the idea that there will be future presidents, I guess,\u201d Kimmel mused.<\/p>\n

Allegedly, future presidents would be offered comp memberships to the club. \u201cJust what a Gavin Newsom would want \u2013 a luxurious spot to unwind and relax, with the MyPillow man and a guy who played Beast Master and Vanilla Ice,\u201d Kimmel joked.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd don\u2019t worry about the cost! A lawyer for the president promised that Trump will pay for the construction,\u201d he added. \u201cReally the one thing we know for sure is that Trump will not pay for the construction himself. This is what he said about the ballroom, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking of that ballroom, which remains under construction and legally contested, Kimmel wondered: \u201cwhat is with all these projects? Not one of them is finished. The East Wing\u2019s still a hole in the ground, the reflecting pool is empty, the Kennedy Center closed. The arch is like a rectangle with construction tape around it. How about you finish one of the other stupid projects nobody needed first?<\/p>\n

\u201cThis country \u2013 we are $41tn in debt,\u201d he added. \u201cWe don\u2019t need a presidential retreat modeled after Camp David. We already have one of those, it\u2019s called Camp David.\u201d<\/p>\n

In other news, Wednesday also marked the 30th birthday of Fox News. \u201cWhat do you get for the network that ruined everything?\u201d Kimmel joked. Perhaps this lovely tribute to the network\u2019s first three decades: \u201cThree decades ago, a visionary named Rupert Murdoch asked a simple question,\u201d said Kimmel. \u201cHe asked, \u2018What if the news was whatever I want it to be?\u2019 And with nothing more than millions of dollars and a complete disregard for the America in which he wasn\u2019t born, he turned that idea into what has become the number one reason you can\u2019t talk to your dad any more.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Late-night hosts dug into Donald Trump\u2019s incoherent statements on Iran and his plan to turn his Florida golf…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-624555","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\/624555","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=624555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}