Seth Meyers has an idea about Donald Trump and the swamp he wants to drain

published 23 November 2016

While taking a closer look at Donald Trump's foreign business ties on Tuesday's Late Night, Seth Meyers told supporters and detractors alike that they should keep a watchful eye on any potential conflicts of interest.

Meyers brought up a few examples he said showed Trump is unable to separate business from government work — his Washington, D.C., hotel has been pitching itself to diplomats in town to see Trump; he met with Indian business partners last week while working on his transition; and his daughter, Ivanka Trump, who is supposed to run the family business once he governs, sat in during a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. It came out that Ivanka Trump was also on a phone call between her father and the president of Argentina, leading Meyers to proclaim, "I'm starting to think we might end up with a woman president after all."

After reminding everyone that Trump spent much of his campaign talking about Hillary Clinton being "crooked" and corrupt, Meyers suggested Trump pledge to liquidate his holdings or put his assets in a "legitimate" blind trust. There are no laws preventing a president from running a business, Meyers said, but if through his hotels and other companies Trump receives foreign money, it could be a violation of a clause in the constitution that prohibits public officials from taking gifts from foreign powers. Trump spent the last few weeks of the campaign talking about all the corruption in Washington he planned on tackling, but after he "drains the swamp," Meyers is convinced he might "build a golf course on the swamp, bottle the swamp water, and sell it to voters as Trump All Natural Organic Elixir." 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.