Trump addressed a brand new, “sick rumor” about “Late Night time with Seth Meyers” that wasn’t a rumor in any respect. It was one other screed in opposition to late-night TV.
Because the GOP breaks the foundations to placate their chief and the Dems play by guidelines that not exist, late-night tv is without doubt one of the few public platforms left that’s daring sufficient to problem President Trump’s coverage every day.
From Jimmy Kimmel to “The Day by day Present” to Stephen Colbert (whose contract received’t be renewed by the nervous of us at Paramount), calling out the harmful actions of the bully within the White Home has by default turn out to be a public service of late-night TV and its political satirists.
Early Wednesday morning, Trump tried to spark a brand new battle in opposition to his joke-slinging foes when he took to his personal social media web site, Fact Social, to handle a “sick rumor” that wasn’t a rumor in any respect.
“Faux Information NBC prolonged the contract of one of many least proficient Late Night time tv hosts on the market, Seth Meyers,” Trump wrote. “He has no Scores, Expertise, or Intelligence, and the Character of an insecure baby. So, why would Faux Information NBC prolong this dope’s contract. I don’t know, however I’ll positively be discovering out!!!”
It is not going to take Sherlock Holmes, Stephen Miller or perhaps a DOGE flunky to ferret out the reality as a result of the contract was revealed again in Might … of 2024. It was hardly a covert operation when NBC prolonged “Late Night time With Seth Meyers” by 2028. “We’re so blissful to proceed this legacy franchise with Seth on the helm and watch him proceed to raise the success of ‘Late Night time,’” introduced NBCUniversal Leisure late-night programming EVP Katie Hockmeyer in a press release.
Thriller solved.
Trump has appeared extra triggered than typical over the previous month or two, maybe as a result of quantifiable rumors surrounding his relationship with the late convicted baby intercourse trafficker Jeffery Epstein, slipping ballot numbers or ongoing queries about his well being. The web can’t cease speculating about what seem like bruises on the backs of his arms, slathered in orange concealer. Is he sick and getting IV transfusions? Or is he punching his pc display screen every time California Gov. Gavin Newsom out-trolls him?
Meyers is a frequent critic of the present White Home administration, and the president has had it out for the comic ever since Meyers performed information anchor on SNL’s “Weekend Replace” and Trump performed a profitable businessman on “The Apprentice.” It was 2011 when Meyers, then head author of the sketch present, hosted the White Home Correspondents’ Dinner.
“Donald Trump has been saying that he’ll run for president as a Republican, which is shocking, since I simply assumed he was operating as a joke,” Meyers stated. Seated within the viewers was a seething Donald Trump.
“Late Night time With Seth Meyers” lately celebrated its tenth 12 months on air, outlasting “The Late Present With Stephen Colbert.” Although Trump reportedly had no direct hand within the cancellation of Colbert’s present, Paramount made the transfer to finish the present after Trump sued its information journal “60 Minutes” over an interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris. The community paid a $16 million settlement to the president. Paramount on the time additionally occurred to be searching for federal approval for a multibillion-dollar sale to Hollywood studio Skydance, which was accepted shortly after the settlement.
Final fall, Trump posted on Fact Social that NBC’s guardian firm, Comcast, ought to “pay a BIG worth” for exhibits like Meyers’, which he known as “political hits.”
“How unhealthy is Seth Meyers on NBC, a ‘community’ run by a really unhealthy group of individuals — Bear in mind, in addition they run MSDNC,” Trump wrote. “I received caught watching Marble Mouth Meyers the opposite evening, the primary time in months, and each time I watch this moron I really feel an obligation to say how dumb and untalented he’s, merely a slot filler for the Scum that runs Comcast.”
Meyers has but to touch upon the latest consideration paid to his present by the White Home, however what’s the push? The host has one other 4 years, in keeping with his contract. Trump additionally has till 2028, in keeping with that different contract, the Structure. It’s anybody’s guess which settlement will maintain.
