{"id":868445,"date":"2026-10-02T16:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T16:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/868445\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T16:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T16:36:08","slug":"seth-meyers-on-trump-is-there-anything-this-grub-wont-make-us-pay-for-late-night-tv-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/868445\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth Meyers on Trump: \u2018Is there anything this grub won\u2019t make us pay for?\u2019 | Late-night TV roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Late-night hosts dug into Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s unpopularity with GOP midterm candidates and his insistence on having US taxpayers foot the bill for recycled campaign ads.<\/p>\n

Seth Meyers<\/p>\n

On Thursday\u2019s Late Night, Seth Meyers<\/a> noted dissent within the Republican party over Donald Trump\u2019s hugely unpopular war with Iran. In the run-up to the midterms next month, several GOP candidates, including Ken Paxton in Texas and Ashley Hinson in Iowa, have run ads calling the war a mistake, though not directly calling out Trump himself.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sorry, you both supported the war, and now you want it to end? Who is that campaign ad for \u2013 you?\u201d Meyers asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlso by the way, very cool and not at all cowardly to call for an end to the war while not naming the president who started it,\u201d he continued. \u201cBut I get it, you guys are in a tough spot. Trump doesn\u2019t care about anyone but himself. When it comes to Republicans running in competitive races, Trump is thinking \u2018maybe I help them,\u2019 or\u201d to quote Trump speaking in the Oval Office this week about Iran, \u201cmaybe I blow them up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump had previously endorsed Paxton, but \u201chis endorsement came with some very strange and unusual caveats,\u201d said Meyers.<\/p>\n

As Trump put it in one of many similar asides on Paxton: \u201cHe may not dress right, he may not talk exactly perfectly, and he may not be the best-looking guy I\u2019ve ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHow would you like to have Trump as your wingman?\u201d Meyers laughed. \u201c\u2018Excuse me, miss, my friend over there thinks you\u2019re very attractive. He, on the other hand, is not attractive at all.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Later in the segment, Meyers noted: \u201cTrump\u2019s own lackeys are slamming him, his poll numbers are bad, his TV ratings are worse, which is why he\u2019s found a new and totally legal way to get his message out: just air campaign ads on national television using your taxpayer money.\u201d<\/p>\n

New ads in support of the midterms aired this week that look suspiciously like Trump\u2019s ads from 2024 yet paid for by the US government, raising concerns from Congress.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey literally took a campaign ad they used in 2024 and re-aired it on TV using taxpayer dollars,\u201d Meyers fumed. \u201cHe\u2019s $2bn richer than he was two years ago, just pay for it yourself, you cheapskate! Is there anything this grub won\u2019t make us pay for? If you went out to dinner with Trump, he\u2019d order everything on the menu then say I forgot my wallet, then ask you for 50 bucks, then put it into his wallet in front of you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jimmy Kimmel<\/p>\n

And on Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> Live!, the host reacted to a new report finding that consumer confidence is now lower than it was during the pandemic. \u201cRemember the good old days, when we thought our parents were going to die of a highly contagious disease?\u201d he joked. \u201cBut don\u2019t worry, the president says our nation is doing really well.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a post on Truth Social, Trump claimed the US was doing \u201cbetter than ever before, but the Public just doesn\u2019t know how well we\u2019re doing. The Fake News Media refuses to disseminate our Record Setting Numbers, so I\u2019m doing the best I can to do it myself!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo way he came up with \u2018disseminate\u2019 on his own,\u201d Kimmel quipped. \u201cHe thinks disseminate is how he got stuck with Don Jr.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe president right now is working very hard to right the ship that definitely isn\u2019t sinking,\u201d Kimmel continued. \u201cTrump held an event yesterday to triumphantly announce a $54bn investment in natural gas,\u201d though he appeared to doze off during it.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnly Donald Trump would fall asleep during a press conference with the secretary of energy,\u201d Kimmel quipped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Late-night hosts dug into Donald Trump\u2019s unpopularity with GOP midterm candidates and his insistence on having US taxpayers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,92],"class_list":["post-868445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}