Overview
- President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that Seth Meyers is the “least talented” person to perform on television and labeled him “a truly deranged lunatic.”
- He claimed Meyers’s show is “NO TALENT, NO RATINGS, 100% ANTI TRUMP, WHICH IS PROBABLY ILLEGAL,” quoting a monologue that riffed on electric versus steam catapults on U.S. aircraft carriers.
- Meyers had mocked Trump’s overseas trip this week, saying he craves royal treatment abroad and is “super-jealous of China’s authoritarian government.”
- Trump previously said in August he would look into rumors of NBC extending Meyers’s deal, though reports noted the host renewed his contract in 2024 through 2028.
- Deadline noted Trump referred to Meyers performing live, even though Late Night with Seth Meyers is taped, and the post fits a broader pattern of his critiques of late-night hosts including Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert.