Donald Trump has branded Seth Meyers’ jokes about his trip to Asia on Late Night “probably illegal”.<\/p>\n
In the A Closer Look segment aired on October 30, 2025, the late-night talk show host zeroed in on the US President\u2019s remarks aboard the USS George Washington in Japan, where he criticised electric catapults used on aircraft carriers.<\/p>\n
Meyers joked: \u201cTrump\u2019s out here campaigning against magnets like they personally wronged him.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cThis is a man who thinks steam catapults are the hill to die on. Not the economy, not healthcare\u2014catapults.\u201d<\/p>\n
The segment also featured Meyers impersonating Trump\u2019s delivery, saying: \u201cI like steam because you can fix it with a wrench. Magnets? You need a wizard.\u201d<\/p>\n
The audience erupted in laughter as Meyers continued: \u201cHe\u2019s ranting about catapults like he\u2019s auditioning for a role in a steampunk reboot of Top Gun.\u201d<\/p>\n
In response, Trump called Meyers “a truly deranged lunatic”.<\/p>\n
He reacted on his Truth Social platform on Saturday (01.11.25): \u201cSeth Meyers of NBC may be the least talented person to \u2018perform\u2019 live in the history of television.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn fact, he may be the WORST to perform, live or otherwise. I watched his show the other night for the first time in years. In it he talked endlessly about electric catapults on aircraft carriers which I complain about as not being as good as much less expensive steam catapults.\u201d<\/p>\n
He went on: “On and on he went, a truly deranged lunatic.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy does NBC waste its time and money on a guy like this??? – NO TALENT, NO RATINGS, 100 per cent ANTI TRUMP, WHICH IS PROBABLY ILLEGAL!!!\u201d<\/p>\n
Meyers was among the late-night TV hosts to rally around Jimmy Kimmel when his show was taken off air by ABC over comments he made about the killing of political campaigner Charlie Kirk.<\/p>\n
Seth dedicated Late Night’s A Closer Look to the president’s relationship with free speech and the media and warned that the broadcaster’s decision to pull the plug on Jimmy Kimmel Live! was a “big moment in our democracy”.<\/p>\n
He said of the president: “His administration is pursuing a crackdown on free speech \u2014 and completely unrelated, I just want to say, before we get started here, that I\u2019ve always admired and respected Mr. Trump.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019ve always believed he was a visionary, innovator, a great president, and an even better golfer. And if you\u2019ve ever seen me say anything negative about him, that\u2019s just AI.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump has branded Seth Meyers’ jokes about his trip to Asia on Late Night “probably illegal”. In…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[101445,141,96,10205,100692,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-240684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-aircraft-carriers","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-seth-meyers","tag-steam-catapults","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}