President Trump "was at the G-20 summit over the weekend, as he faced his most serious legal threat yet from the Russia investigation," Seth Meyers said on Monday's Late Night, noting this isn't the first time Trump traveled abroad "under a cloud of suspicion." He compared Trump to "a guy who goes on a date and tries to ignore the fact that his ankle bracelet is beeping like crazy," adding that the "increasingly damning" revelations from the Russia investigation have always made Trump's relationships with other world leaders "super awkward."
"Trump is desperate to socialize at these things, but he's so bad at it," Meyers said, showing a cold reception from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Trump wandering off during a photo shoot with Argentina's president, Mauricio Macri. "I've had better luck getting my dog to take a Christmas photo in her Santa hat," he joked. And Trump had to cancel his meeting with the one leader he seems comfortable with, Russia's Vladimir Putin, following revelations his lawyer Michael Cohen was negotiating to build a Trump Tower Moscow deep into the presidential campaign. This "damning development in the investigation" probably explains why Trump is "freaking out," Meyers suggested, running through Monday's "angry tirade" on Twitter.
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