Watch Seth Meyers laugh at Fox's Maria Bartiromo trying to get Trump to hang up the phone
Between dealing with the fallout from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report, stonewalling House Democrats, and campaigning for re-election, President Trump "has a lot going on," Seth Meyers said on Late Night. "Which means, of course, that he decided to take time out of his schedule to call in to a Fox morning show and once again spent so much time on the phone that at the end of the interview, the host, Maria Bartiromo, repeatedly tried to get him to hang up." He played several excerpts from Monday morning's Fox Business call-in.
"My god, that was like watching your grandpa try to get off the phone with his grandpa," Meyers said. "I know it's hard to remember this sometimes, but that guy is the most powerful man in the world. He should be, like, doing stuff. And Maria knows — I mean, look at her face."
"Aside from rambling incoherently about whatever he was rambling about, Trump also repeated the dangerous line he's been using lately about the investigation of him and his campaign, that it was an attempted 'coup' and the people behind it were 'traitors,'" Meyers said. He played several examples.
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"So there you go, that's what the president said," he noted. "If there's anything Trump hates, it's traitors who try to overthrow the United States government." Meyers jumped to Trump's remarks Friday that Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was a "great general," and he disagreed, pointedly: "No, he wasn't: He led an armed rebellion to bring down the United States government, and he lost." Sound familiar? "Of course Trump couldn't just stop at heaping praise on a traitorous general who defended slavery and tried to bring down the United States government, he also had to heap some praise on himself," calling himself "a young, vibrant man," Meyers said, pausing. "I can't believe I have to say this, but we can see you." Watch below. Peter Weber
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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.
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