The last week has been a rough one for Donald Trump, and no matter how well Mike Pence performed at Tuesday's vice presidential debate, Seth Meyers says there's no way it can bring the Trump campaign out of its "tailspin."
On Tuesday's Late Night, Meyers briefly mentioned the VP debate — all Pence had to do, he said, was "appeal to swing voters, hold his own on policy, and not take advice from his running mate" — but primarily focused on Trump and his terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week. First, there was his "disastrous" debate against Hillary Clinton last Monday, which for some reason he couldn't stop talking about. "He's like the kid who wets the bed at a sleepover, and a week later is still going, 'I'm telling you, I spilled my juice box,'" Meyers said. Then there was his speech on Saturday, where he was supposed to deliver a "nine-sentence critique" about comments Clinton made about Sanders supporters. It ended up taking 25 minutes to deliver the message. "That's all Trump had to do, but remember, Trump has essentially been in the middle of the same run-on sentence for a year now," Meyers said.
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