president storming ahead, i think this president has to be judged in a different way, due to the fact that we have family members in office, and that now seems normal. and we have advisors that are extreme right, we take that as test. those things are not normal, but they ve become normal in a way we need to have a daily asterisk by everything so we don t forget them. when you look at the kind of atmosphere, this is a president for whom images are very important, i wonder, you know, is the purpose of the trump presidency to create great policy or is it to create a series of stories and images? the carrier deal, things like that. so that, you know n three years he ll go back to the american people and say look, i did all these amazing things. watch the video. first of all, presidents really can do a lot with
carrier deal. right. that seems like a million years ago. a generation ago. a generation ago. for me it s the i ve learned to just let everything go. because tomorrow is going to be more impactful than yesterday. that s part of the thing too, there s nothing fixed. do you guys feel like what is your approach or what do you feel like you ve learned about what it when the president says a thing? i feel like so much of what we do, the president says a thing, the president said a thing then the next day the president s like, i didn t say that. what do you i do do with that? we try to keep it pretty simple, which is, let s do jokes about what happened today. let s try to constantly point out when there are contradictions. which is constantly. and, you know, try to explain to people you know, our big takeaway today is, look. this is a guy who said he was a different republican. everything we re seeing up to
i want to shift away from this just so we can end on anything else. was i that bad? no! look. this is not your fault. joining me now is seth meyers. seth, great to have you here. so good to be here. i was on your show. we re closing a book end on 100 days. i was on your show the day after the election. yes. we were thinking, what is coming down the pike? and now you re here. what is your big takeaway, what have you learned in the first 100 i don t know how much i ve learned. i will say, it s not even a book that seems like worth going back to the first chapter to look at. we were thinking the other day, when we look back at our early pieces we were doing after the inauguration, things like the carrier deal. right. that seems like a million years ago. a generation ago. a generation ago. for me it s the i ve learned to just let everything go. because tomorrow is going to be
for their companies. i am such an opponent though of any kind of crony capitalism. you were critical of him for the carrier deal. well, i was firing a warning shot, you know, wanting to make sure that the trump administration kept in mind that much of the constituency, much of the base is expecting that the swamp will be drained and that there will not be any kind of embrace of crony cap wiitali. so with the carrier deal i wanted to make sure that the president, his administration was reminded we expect an even playing field. we expect government to not pick winners and losers, not one company over another like carrier or some other, and not accusing them though of favoring carrier over another company but wanting to make sure that we re not even flirting with disaster in that arena of crony capitalism and letting government pick winners and choosers and creating some
the pledges and policies. great. he s a minority president. he has a lot of persuading to do. so when he came in, people were giving him the benefit of the doubt. he had about a 45/45 approval/disapproval rating. now he s 12 points under water. people are watching. yes, he s bringing in ceos but he s taking credit for things that were already happening. name one action he s taken that he s been able to have an impact on the economy, that s his responsibility? we saw it even before the president was even inaugurated. we saw the carrier deal. but the carrier deal was the result of state tax incentives. he did nothing but shining a light on it. i would say f you ask any of those families getting i m all about this happening but what is his he didn t provide any incentives. we re going to see that