Seth Meyers and Trevor Noah marvel, wince at Trump's 'insane' press conference

Trevor Noah and Seth Meyers gape at Trump
(Image credit: Screenshots/YouTube/The Daily Show, Late Night)

President Trump was still holding his solo press conference when the late-night shows taped on Wednesday, but Trump provided enough crazy material that they fit in what they could. Late Night's Seth Meyers started with Trump's inadvertent laugh line at the United Nations on Tuesday, which Meyers cast as a cautionary tale for when Trump tells one of his canned lies outside his sycophantic bubble. "He had no idea what he was saying was funny," Meyers said, and he tried to claim his line about accomplishing more than any president in history was meant to get a laugh. Meyers wasn't buying it. "So you've been doing that joke for two years, and the first time it ever worked was at the U.N.?"

Finally, Meyers got to the press conference. "Now, a lot of what you're going to hear is going to sound insane," he warned, playing clips of Trump claiming China loves his "big, big brain" and spinning a "deluded conspiracy theory" where Democrats dreamed up all the allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and now gather in a room to "laugh like hell" at what they've pulled off. "No, dude, they're not the ones laughing," Meyers said. "You're thinking of the United Nations."

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Peter Weber, The Week US

Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.