Meyers jibed at Donald Trump Wednesday joking: ‘I hope you get a TV soon that allows you to change the channel’. Donald Trump caught a stray during Seth Meyers’ A Closer Look segment targeting the president-elect’s choice to oversee the Department of Defense and its $820 billion budget, Peter Hegseth.
Minutes before Jack Smith released his devastating report into Trump’s election-result meddling in 2020, the Republican sent out a message attacking Meyers in which he mentioned that he had been forced to watch the former SNL star’s talk show. Meyers noted this amid his attack on Hegseth: “It has come to my attention that sometimes people who do not care for me get stuck watching my show. And to those people, I would just say: You have my sympathy, and I hope you get a TV soon that allows you to change the channel.”.
However, the real target of Meyers’ monologue was Hegseth. “If you’re a Pete Hegseth fan, here’s the bad news: I’m about to do some jokes at his expense,” Meyers began. “But here’s the good news, he’s probably going to get confirmed as the next Secretary of Defense because it’s very unlikely that the Republicans will stand up to Donald Trump on this.
That’s when Meyers chose to land his blow against Trump. “And you might be saying, ‘Seth, why would a Pete Hegseth fan be watching your show?’ Fair point.”. “It has come to my attention that sometimes people who do not care for me get stuck watching my show.
