On Late Night, Seth Meyers also discussed Trump’s bizarre address at the National Prayer Breakfast, “because what is prayer if not a time to air petty grievances?”
As for his White House address, which was just as convoluted and petty, Meyers called it a “rambling non-speech fever dream or whatever the hell it was” which was “really just a showcase for our perpetually aggrieved and wounded president to nurse his ego,
relive old glories and lash out at random critics and shadowy imagined opponents”.
Trump’s vocabulary orbited around “a few insane phrases in particular,” said Meyers, such as “dirty cops”, “leakers” and “liars”.
Meyers hoped the two addresses serve as “a reminder to everyone who thought Trump had somehow managed to restrain himself during the State of the Union two days ago – the Trump we saw today was the real Trump”.
It’s also going to be the Trump of the next nine months, “because it’s pretty clear from his vengeful, celebratory tone that Trump wanted this to be the week that, for all intents and purposes, he kicked off his 2020 re-election campaign,” said Meyers.
“Although I don’t know if Trump ever really stopped campaigning – he spends more time in arenas than Jon Bon Jovi.”
