Donald Trump's presidential transition effort is reportedly a mess shrouded in mystery and rumors. It's like "a knife fight — and that might not be a metaphor," Seth Meyers said on Tuesday's Late Night, flipping on his Trump imitation: "Rudy, Chris, fight for my amusement." Trump has named as his chief of staff Reince Priebus, a move met with general approval in the Republican Party, but he gave an at least equally powerful role to Steve Bannon, the former head of Breitbart News, and that has caused alarm in lots of circles not enamored with white nationalism.
Among those terrified by Bannon being steps away from the Oval Office is Glenn Beck. "You know the world has gone insane when Glenn Beck and Bernie Sanders are on the same page," Meyers said. "For them to be on the same page, the book has to be one page long" — and he offered a look at what that page might read: "We're all F#@!ed. The End." Trump also wants his kids to both advise him and run his business, setting up all sorts of conflicts of interest. "So all we know so far about Trump's transition is that there's infighting among his advisers, and there may not be a firm division between his presidency and his business," Meyers said, oh, and Trump is already walking back some of his marquee promises. For example, "a wall that Mexico is going to pay for is now a fence that we're going to pay for." Watch. Peter Weber
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