Even before Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton dominated their respective rivals in Tuesday's primaries, the media had "moved on to one of its favorite parlor games: speculating wildly about who they'll chose as their running mates," Seth Meyers said on Tuesday's Late Night. "Stop trying to make 'veepstakes' a thing," he added, channeling his inner mean girl. "No one outside the media ever calls it 'the veepstakes.' Nothing is worse than when the news tries to get you to use news slang." Then Meyers played the veepstakes parlor game.
He began by noting that even "candidates who have virtually no chance of becoming president" are floating possible VP choices, quipping, "John Kasich picking a running mate is like Vin Diesel practicing his Oscars acceptance speech." But what about Trump and Clinton? Lots of nominees look for opposites in their running mates, but "who or what is the opposite of Donald Trump?" Meyers asked. "Is it a Mexican guy who tears down walls with his giant hands?" Trump could offer it to one of his rivals, except that they've all preemptively said no.
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