Can anything stop asteroid Donald Trump? Seth Meyers takes a closer look.

Seth Meyers asks if anyone can stop Donald Trump
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After Donald Trump's decisive victory in the South Carolina primary, despite trashing several orthodoxies of the conservative movement, "for the GOP establishment, the unthinkable has happened," Seth Meyers said on Monday's Late Night: "Trump is now the undisputed frontrunner for the Republican nomination for president." That has everyone asking the same question: Can Donald Trump be stopped?

Meyers had a little fun with the question. "The media's talking about Trump's win the way reporters in the movie Armageddon talked about the asteroid," he said. He ran with the metaphor for a bit, saying the two new recruits to stop the Trumperoid, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, are on a "suicide mission," noting that the last astronaut sent after the looming natural disaster is floating in space somewhere (that would be Jeb!). After mocking Rubio and Cruz's claims of victory after placing distant second and third in South Carolina, Meyers looked at how Trump got away with brazenly flip-flopping and contradicting long-held Republican policies and talking points. His best guess had to do with racism. Watch below. Peter Weber

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Peter Weber, The Week US

Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.