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."
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