"It has been a chaotic week in the 2016 election, and Hillary Clinton was in the news today after she... ha, I'm just kidding," Seth Meyers teased on Thursday's Late Night. "It was Donald Trump. Donald Trump was in the news today. He's in the news every day because his campaign is in full meltdown mode this week as he again wreaks havoc on the Republican Party." Meyers quickly ran through some controversies that dogged Trump just this week, then noted the one thing Republicans couldn't abide: his refusal to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan. "This is the final straw?" Meyers asked. "Not the racism or the misogyny or the wall?"
Meyers brought up the "intervention" by Republican allies, laughing off Newt Gingrich's Joe-Montana-slump analogy and Mike Huckabee's "he'll have adults around him" reassurances, then delved into some of the blips in Trump's "disastrous week," including the report of his interest in using nukes, his warnings that the election will be rigged, Warren Buffett's swipes at Trump's business acumen, and Trump's trolling of a mother with a crying baby at one of his rallies. "We have someone running for president who thinks it's funny people believe him," Meyers said. "His whole platform is 'psych!'" Watch Meyers' closer look at Trump's wild week below. Peter Weber
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