Overview
- Letterman released a new video praising Seth Meyers and said he has never been more proud of him.
- He mocked the idea that the president could get Meyers fired and lauded the current Late Night host’s work as “magical.”
- Letterman sharply criticized the president in the video, calling him “a wonder of idiocy” and referring to him as “our current dictator.”
- The remarks follow the president’s mid-November Truth Social posts urging NBC to fire Meyers and accusing him of having “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
- Meyers responded on Nov. 18 with on-air jokes about Newsmax saying his name and a riff on the president’s phrasing, with reports tying the flare-up to a rerun featuring jokes about aircraft-carrier catapults.