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Seth Meyers Calls Trump ‘A—hole’ In Impassioned ‘Late Night’ Monologue

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By Daniel J. Solomon September 26, 2017

Seth Meyers, the faux news anchor-turned-“Late Show” host, lit into Donald Trump on Monday night, referring to the president as an “asshole” after Trump attacked sports stars for kneeling during the national anthem.

“Our president is an asshole,” the NBC host said, during a segment on the national anthem controversy. “Last weekend was in many ways a perfect distillation of Trump’s presidency ― feeding his base racial and cultural resentments in order to keep them on his side as his team of corrupt authoritarians try to swindle hard-working Americans out of their health care.”

Trump has courted controversy for picking fights with basketball and football athletes who refused to stand during the national anthem – a protest that former NFL quarterback Colin Kapaernick started doing as a protest against institutional racism. Meyers has a background in political humor, having hosted “Saturday Night Live’s” mock news Weekend Update feature.

Contact Daniel J. Solomon at [email protected] or on Twitter @DanielJSolomon

Daniel J. Solomon is the former Assistant to the Editor/News Writer at the Forward. Originally from Queens, he attended Harvard as an undergraduate, where he wrote his senior thesis on French-Jewish intellectual history. He is excited to have returned to New York after his time in Massachusetts. Daniel’s passions include folk music, cycling, and pointed argument.

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