Seth Meyers offers advice for anti-Trump protesters: Laugh at him


Seth Meyers is pretty sure he's found a way for protesters to really get to Donald Trump, and it involves mocking him.
On Monday's Late Night, the host determined that being called a "racist" and a "fascist" by demonstrators isn't enough to rattle Trump. Meyers diagnosed Trump as a narcissist, and said the real way to get under his skin is to continue to ridicule him with passive-aggressive signs like this one spotted in Chicago: "Trump puts ketchup on his hot dogs" — a mortal sin in that town.
Meyers suggests such button-pushing slogans as "I'm sorry, you look familiar, where do I know you from?" and "What is your rage compensating for?" That type of talk will "chip away at his ego," Meyers explains, since he hates being laughed at — as proof, Meyers shows a clip of a very unamused Trump scowling after Meyers delivers a joke at his expense during the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner. "That was five years ago," Meyers says. "He still eggs my house every morning — with the best eggs. He Fabergé eggs my house." Watch the video below. Catherine Garcia
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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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