Seth Meyers didn’t maintain again on Thursday evening (January 9) when it got here to President-elect Donald Trump and his response to the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles, California.
“We firstly need to ship our ideas and our like to everybody who’s been affected,” Meyers mentioned on the high of Thursday’s Late Night time With Seth Meyers. “Nearly everybody who works on this present, myself included, have pricey family and friends who’ve been impacted by this nightmare. All of us simply need to say we’re considering of you.”
He continued, “It’s additionally essential to say on this second, local weather change is actual, it’s an imminent and existential menace to the lives and security of People and we should deal with it just like the disaster it’s. Sadly, there are politicians who would reasonably unfold lies concerning the emergency response, and I’m not gonna identify names, however Donald Trump.”
Meyers then centered on Trump’s Reality Social put up during which he claimed California governor Gavin Newsom “refused to signal the water restoration declaration put earlier than him that might have allowed tens of millions of gallons of water, from extra rain and snow soften from the North, to circulate each day into many elements of California.”
“You heard Trump, Newsom refused to signal the Water Restoration Declaration, a really actual doc that positively exists, proper?” Meyers retorted.
He then threw to a clip from MSNBC’s Morning Joe confirming that no such doc exists. “However I trusted the experience of the man who mentioned water that comes from heaven known as rain,” Meyers quipped.
“In fact it doesn’t exist,” Meyers added. “You possibly can inform simply from the phrase ‘water restoration declaration,’ which sounds tremendous f****** made-up. It appears like a reputation like a bunch of stoners would make up for his or her bong. ‘I name this Her Highness, The Archduke of Sativa, Smoker of Kush, and Liege of the Seven Reeferdoms. However she is empty, so I declare, Water Restoration!’”
Meyers concluded, “Firefighters and emergency employees are exhibiting super bravery and braveness. The 1000’s of Los Angeles residents who’ve been impacted by this tragedy have proven unimaginable solidarity and kindness. They deserve comparable compassion from their leaders. As an alternative, we now have a president-elect who’s taking workplace and who’s of, let’s say…”
The late-night host then confirmed a clip of Trump himself saying, “A lot lesser high quality.”
You possibly can watch Meyers’ full Trump phase within the video above.
Late Night time with Seth Meyers, Weeknights, 12:35 am/11:35c, NBC