Seth Meyers Jokes Trump Will Run Again in 2028: ‘Hail Supreme Leader’
Seth Meyers is worried about more than just Donald Trump’s second term.
“Well, Donald Trump won the 2024 election and he’s going to be president for four more years, or eight, or 12, or whatever,” he said with a concerned laugh as he opened his first ‘Closer Look’ segment after the election day. . “We live in an infinite time where Donald Trump has always been and always will be the center of the universe. There is no escape. All hail our powerful and benevolent supreme leader.”
Meyers was joking, of course, since the 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits anyone from serving more than two terms as president — although Trump once posted a video online who edited a Time magazine cover to show he was running indefinitely for the future.
Meyers continued the piece, saying, “Windmills Doing cause cancer. Hannibal Lecter was a nice man. And if I’m lying, Arnold Palmer doesn’t have the biggest dick in the clubhouse. Fuck me!”
After continuing to roast Trump — noting that he is both the oldest person ever elected president and the first convicted felon, and ridiculing his victory speech — Meyers shifted his attention to some of the newly elected president’s supporters.
“As RFK Jr. becomes Minister of Health, does that mean his brainworm will become Assistant Secretary?” Meyers asked, referring to the parasitic worm Kennedy discussed during his own presidential campaign, he said he “ate part of his brain.” Meyers continued, “Oh, will the worm do press conferences? Small podium on the head of the upper RFK?’
Elon Musk, the billionaire behind Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter that became X, was the next subject of Meyers’ ire.
“They want you to think they’re just edgelord podcasters, but they’re not. They are oligarchs,” he said. The richest man in the world – whose company has a contract with the Pentagon and owns one of the largest social media platforms – has joined forces with a billionaire who will soon be the most powerful man in the world for a second time to increase his power over consolidate society. and the economy. They’re not your brothers. They don’t come to your house to smoke weed and play Diablo with you.”
Meyers did not mince words about his fears for the coming years. “Donald Trump has been very clear about what he will do if he returns to power: military-style roundups of migrants, using the power of the state to crush his opponents and perpetuate his grievances, destroying the Department of Education eliminate it, allow climate change to run rampant. , spreading conspiracy theories about healthcare and vaccines,” he said. “He said he would be a dictator on day one.”
But the “Late Night” host tried to end the segment with a message of hope: “The question now is, what are the rest of us going to do on day one? If you are one of the tens of millions of Americans who said no to Trump’s dark, dangerous vision for America last night, now is the time to stand in solidarity with our friends, with our neighbors, with vulnerable communities, and start with the hard work to make the world we want to live in a reality. That’s what we’ll do on day one. We hope you will join us. The clock is ticking.”
See Meyers’ full “A Closer Look” segment below.
