President Trump has had a weird two weeks, Seth Meyers said on Wednesday's Late Night — he wants to claim total victory when it comes to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, but is also obsessed with how the whole thing got started.
On Tuesday, Trump declared that he wants someone to look not into the "origins," but rather the "oranges" of the probe. "Why does he keep saying 'oranges?'" Meyers asked. "Is he hungry?" The White House also struggled to figure out what Trump was trying to convey, with the official transcript saying "oringes." Yes, Meyers said, they invented a word, and it's one that "looks like how a child would spell it on a piece of cardboard if they opened up their own fruit stand."
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