Seth Meyers thinks he's figured out why Donald Trump's scandals don't stick


Seth Meyers is trying to wrap his head around why The Washington Post's report regarding Donald Trump using money from his charitable foundation to settle lawsuits isn't a bigger scandal.
On Wednesday's Late Night, Meyers reasoned that Trump likely survives such scandals because he "has no shame. When confronted, he doubles down. He's like a dog who pees in the house and when you rub his nose in it, he goes, 'Mmm, I love the smell of my own urine.'" Trump has dismissed the report's assertion that he hasn't contributed any of his own money to the foundation since 2008, saying he donates his own personal money to charity. There's no way of knowing if this is true without his tax returns, Meyers said, but it's rather difficult to believe that Trump, fond of announcing how rich and smart he is, "would be charitable on the down-low."
Meyers also looked at the examples the Post unearthed of how the foundation's money has been spent — his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach was once fined for having a flagpole that was so tall it broke the town's rules ("sounds like he's compensating for something," Meyers quipped) and in 2010 a man sued Trump over a hole-in-one contest at one of his golf courses, saying he was cheated of a promised $1 million prize. Trump "rigged the contest so it couldn't be won," Meyers said. "He's like a carnie working the ring toss at a state fair. There's a reason Donald Trump Foundation is abbreviated DTF, because it is down to eff you over." 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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