Donald Trump entered Sunday night's presidential debate reeling from a terrible week in which "the Trump Train collided head-on with the Access Hollywood bus," Seth Meyers said on Monday's Late Night, referring to the "footage that by now you probably know better than your 5-year-old knows Frozen." He played the tape anyway. Trump managed to come across as both tawdry and inept at opening doors, Meyers said, but then-Access Hollywood host Billy Bush also "somehow surpassed Jeb as worst-performing Bush in 2016. Poor Jeb, he must be somewhere thinking, 'I can't win anything!'" NBC suspended Bush after the tape went public, Meyers noted, "which means there is currently a higher standard for host of the third hour of the Today show than there is for Republican nominee for president."
"As expected, the tape was the first-order of business at last night's debate," and Trump repeatedly tried to play his comments off as "locker room talk," Meyers said. He explained that this isn't really how men talk in locker rooms, adding that "this is the problem: Trump treats the entire world like the inside of a men's locker room," and for those of you who have never been inside one, Meyers pointed to one particular type of locker room denizen that Trump resembles. It isn't a pretty image.
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