Announcer tonight on late night with seth meyers, jim belushi. Star of hbos succession, actress sarah snook. Author of must i go, yiyun li. Featuring the 8g band with fred armisen and no Seth Meyers Seth welcome to late night. Hows everybody doing tonight . My parents are visiting me right now. So im doing great even though im apparently a little skinny and i curse too much and isnt it a little early for a cocktail, seth and anyway, lets get to the news during a press conference yesterday, President Trump claimed that the 1918 spanish flu probably ended world war ii. Are you kidding . They were more than two decades apart. I know you dont think thats a big difference, but it is. It is. Thats right, President Trump claimed that the 1918 spanish flu probably ended world war ii despite the two events happening more than two decades apart. Look, i get it its confusing were in the year 2020 and somehow the only band on tour right now is smash mouth i mean, the years start coming and they do
Sentenced to seven to nine years in prison for lying to congress. Then today, the department of justice issued a statement calling for much less prison time for stone and trump said that he had the department what to do. Then all four prosecutors in the stone case resigned in protest and then, trump called for the military to pursue legal action against Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman for testifying against him in the impeachment trial. And Senate Republicans blocked three bills to prevent foreign interference in our elections. And Lindsey Graham and don junior showed up on fox news in matching trump merch. [ light laughter ] i guess what im telling you is, by this time tomorrow we might be a cooking show. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause multiple federal prosecutors resigned today after the Justice Department announced plans to reduce their sentencing recommendation for former trump adviser roger stone. Pretty unsurprising for someone who looks like the get out of jail free car
During Todays Supreme Court arguments concerning President Trumps financial records, trumps lawyer jay sekulow argued that trump is, quote, asking for temporary president ial immunity. Temporary . He has seven months left in a fouryear term its like going to work and asking for a sixhour lunch break. During Todays Supreme Court arguments, the lawyer representing House Democrats told justices that lawmakers need access to trumps tax returns to see if hes, quote, subject to foreign leverage. Oh, come on thats just ridiculous, said justice putin. During a Coronavirus Briefing yesterday, President Trump told an Asian American reporter to, quote, ask china in response to a question about coronavirus rates. Okay, im starting to think melanias be best program isnt working. Telling an asianamerican reporter to ask china is like a skit the be best players would do at a school and then say, freeze okay now, who knows what the president should have asked . And then the president would raise his h
John miller to pose as his own publicist in the early 90s, a new report has surfaced showing that trump also used the name Donald Barron as far back as 1980 how is anyone so lazy they can only be bothered to change half their name when going undercover unless he didnt decide that until halfway through that he wanted to do it. Yes, this is Donald Barron. A different donald a different donald and now i can say whatever i want. Like how i, donald, just saw donald trump, not me barron, in the office gym and if that boy aint hung like a horse, then my names not donald j. Barron, which it is. And if you dont believe me, just ask my wife, melania jones. [ laughter and applause thats good object work. So good at object work Melania Trump has given an exclusive interview to du jour magazine in which she shot down accusations that she avoids the public eye saying, im not shy, i know what i want. And if its anything like trumps previous wives, im guessing half of everything. [ laughter and applau
Sentenced to seven to nine years in prison for lying to congress. Then today, the department of justice issued a statement calling for much less prison time for stone and trump said that he had the right to tell the Justice Department what to do. Then all four prosecutors in the stone case resigned in protest and then, trump called for the military to pursue legal action against Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman for testifying against him in the impeachment trial. And Senate Republicans blocked three bills to prevent foreign interference in our elections. And Lindsey Graham and don junior showed up on fox news in matching trump merch. [ light laughter ] i guess what im telling you is, by this time tomorrow we might be a cooking show. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause multipsigned today after the jue department announced plans to reduce their sentencing recommendation for former trump adviser roger stone. Pretty unsurprising for someone who looks like the get out of jail free card [