Seth Meyers sees quite a few similarities between Trump and a Roomba


There's nothing funny about the government shutdown, now the longest in history and affecting 800,000 employees, but there's a lot to laugh at in a new book written by former White House aide Cliff Sims.
On Thursday's Late Night, Seth Meyers recounted some of the anecdotes found in Team of Vipers, out next week, but heavily promoted over the last few days. Sims describes a meeting in the Oval Office between President Trump and former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), where Ryan droned on for so long that Trump finally just got up and walked away. They heard the television turn on in another room, Sims said, and it was up to Vice President Mike Pence to retrieve Trump. "Oh my God, we have a president who just wanders around the house in slow motion no matter what's going on around him," Meyers said. "It's like we elected a Roomba."
In another chapter, Sims said Trump was distracted while preparing for a call to the International Space Station. He asked the NASA administrator about the "plan for Mars," and after being told a rover is going to the planet in 2020 and they will attempt a manned spaceflight in the 2030s, Trump asked if there was a way to speed things up and get there by the end of his first term. "Why?" Meyers said. "Are you trying to escape somewhere that's out of [Special Counsel] Robert Mueller's jurisdiction?" 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.
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