After President Trump renamed the Division of Protection the Division of Warfare and promised on Fact Social that the residents of Chicago would discover out why, Seth Meyers reminded his “Late Night time” viewers on Monday: “I’m undecided in the event you guys bear in mind this, however Republicans truly claimed in the course of the marketing campaign that Trump was the anti-war candidate.”
The NBC host went on to play a number of clips of each Republican officers and Trump himself promising that he was the anti-war alternative Individuals needed to make in 2024, whereas former Vice President Kamala Harris was supposedly the candidate of “dying and destruction.” Mystified, Meyers noticed, “You hearken to the dude they’re describing in these clips and begin pondering, ‘Can we meet that Donald Trump, the Donald Trump of peace?’”
“The Donald Trump we all know has bombed a minimum of seven completely different nations in his two phrases and bragged about sending billions of {dollars} in weapons to oppressive regimes,” he continued, mentioning how Trump’s actions and feedback have flown within the face of his earlier, anti-war stance. The “Late Night time With Seth Meyers” host added that he couldn’t assist however discover it ironic that anybody would ever argue that Trump represents peace — in any kind.
“It’s so loopy to name one of many world’s most annoying loudmouths the candidate of peace,” Meyers remarked. “One factor Donald Trump has by no means given anybody is peace. He by no means shuts up.”
Within the second half of his Monday night time “A Nearer Look” section, Meyers referred to as the president out for reacting incredulously to folks’s issues over his feedback about bringing the Division of Warfare to Chicago.
“In case you don’t need folks to ask in the event you’re going to battle with Chicago, then don’t submit memes with the phrases ‘battle’ and ‘Chicago,’” Meyers suggested. “The issue isn’t that we’re not listening; it’s that we’re, and all the things you say contradicts the factor earlier than it. So we’re on this Holy Grail-like quest for consistency.” The comic then mentioned that Trump’s obvious confusion over latest occasions and other people’s issues about his well being have solely made it tougher for anybody to belief something he says.
“Trump doesn’t simply wish to intimidate enemies overseas. He needs to cow his opponents into submission right here at dwelling,” Meyers concluded. “On the identical time, he doesn’t appear to recollect the issues he says or does every day, or the place he’s or the place he simply got here from. Bodily, he should be the president, however mentally talking, Trump is now not with us.”
