Taking one last stab at talking Donald Trump out a move into the White House, Seth Meyers upped NBC’s offer to star the real estate developer in a POTUS drama called Chicago President. NBC, via Meyers and without the network’s sanction, has increased the order to 22 episodes and promised the vehicle the net’s coveted 10 PM Monday timeslot, immediately following The Voice.
“This offer stands until Inauguration Day,” Meyers says on tonight’s Late Night, joining the pantheon of late night hosts expected to tackle Trump’s stunning election upset the previous night.
Meyers, who began making the series offer back in June, admitted he thought Trump would jump at the chance, because we thought he might not actually want to be president. Well, after last night’s results, I just want to say to Donald Trump: Our offer still stands. C’mon, you didn’t think you were going to win this thing either, and I’m guessing that right now you are spinning out. You’re probably looking at a map of the United States and thinking, ‘Wait, how long does this wall have to be???’
“And I can’t imagine the people you had to call this morning to say, ‘Hey, I guess Trump TV is on hold for now. Why? Because I have to be the president.’ Not to mention the fact that you’re going to have to give Rudy Giuliani a job and then hang out with him, and I don’t have to tell you, he is batshit crazy. Just tell people you have health issues. Because for the last year, we’ve only seen you eating out of bowls and buckets.”
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Meyers acknowledged he’s been wrong about Trump literally every step of his presidential run.
“We’ve been talking about Donald Trump on this show for 18 months, and one of the things I’ve tried to make clear over
those 18 months is how I’ve been wrong about him at every turn. When he first came down the escalator at Trump Tower and announced, I boldly said it was a stunt and he would never really run. I then said he would never win the GOP nomination. And I certainly didn’t think he would be our next President. But the good news is, based on this pattern of me being wrong on every one of my Donald Trump predictions, he’s probably going to be a great fucking President. So let’s just hope this trajectory holds.”
Meyers has cause to be hopeful: “We know from interviews he’s given over the years that he has, at any given point, held every position on every issue. He’s been pro-choice, pro-life, for the Iraq War, against the Iraq War, pretty much his only consistent position has been anti-Rosie O’Donnell,” the late-night host observed. “So I’m hopeful that he’s not actually a racist, and that he just used racist rhetoric to court voters.”
Meyers noted Trump made a boatload of promises as to what he’s going to do in the next four years. “Now we get to see if he can fulfill them,” Meyers said.
“And so, I’d just like to make one promise to him: We here at Late Night will be watching.”
