Seth Meyers on Monday defined why it’s “fairly wealthy” that Donald Trump stated he’d encourage Russia to “do regardless of the hell they need” to different NATO international locations who don’t pay their approach within the navy alliance when the previous president “brags on a regular basis about not paying his payments.”
Trump “has stiffed everybody from banks to the IRS to a whole bunch of contractors who labored on his casinos to his personal attorneys,” stated Meyers, noting how former Trump legal professional Rudy Giuliani even stated in a latest chapter submitting that Trump’s marketing campaign owes him thousands and thousands of {dollars} in unpaid authorized charges.
“Trump is the man who famously claimed not paying your payments makes you a genius. Keep in mind?” requested Meyers.
The “Late Evening” comic aired a clip from Trump’s 2016 presidential debate with Democratic rival Hillary Clinton wherein she famous how Trump “didn’t pay any federal revenue tax.”
Trump, now the Republican 2024 front-runner, interrupted Clinton to say, “That makes me sensible.”
“To begin with, truly sensible folks by no means need to say the phrases, ‘that makes me sensible,’” stated Meyers. He then defined how NATO members don’t pay charges, as Trump appeared to counsel, however truly “conform to spend a specific amount of their finances on protection.”
“Trump is complicated it with Blockbuster,” Meyers joked, later arguing it was “harmful and insane” to encourage Russia to invade different international locations.
Watch Meyers’ full monologue right here:
