‘Too weird to be true,’ the late-night hosts responded to Trump as he returned to the office.
Late night hosts Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon called President Trump’s return to the White House on Monday, describing the president’s inauguration as a “long national nightmare.”
“I’m going to get to the news. Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and like Martin Luther King, I had a dream. I mean, it had to be a dream, right?” “Night night,” Meyers said at the beginning of his NBC show. “It’s too weird to be true,” he added.
After joking about other topics, Meyers said: “So that’s it, right? We’re done with the news and can we move on now? Oh—right, Donald Trump is now the president of the United States. Oh! Yeah, just f— me!
Meyers also commented on Trump’s speech, which he described as “an unsettling, low-energy mixture of obsessive fascism and weirdness that no one cares about except Donald Trump and his minions.”
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Late night host Seth Meyers reacts to President Trump’s return to the White House. (Screenshot/LateNightSethMeyers)
Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States on Monday. The evening’s hosts, who mostly expressed their support for former President Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris, did not hesitate to poke fun at the ceremony and the new president.
On CBS’ “The Late Show,” Colbert said, “Okay, ladies and gentlemen. It’s happened. Donald Trump is president again.”
“So how, how, where do we begin? We go, first of all. You mean today? How did we get here?” Colbert added.
Fallon met Bo on NBC’s “Tonight Show” after saying, “Guys, today Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th president of the United States.”
“We’re all one. It’s great to know,” he responded to the crowd.
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President Trump delivers his second presidential inaugural address on January 20, 2024.
Recap on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Around the beginning of the season, he said, the boy peeking out of bed and the dog romping in the hallway were just “appetizers” before graduation.
“At noon today, our long national nightmare was officially resolved. Another time. For the second time. Donald Trump became the first felon to be sworn in as president of the United States,” said Kimmel, a frequent critic of the president. .
Kimmel said in an interview in October that he wasn’t “mentally prepared” for Vice President Kamala Harris to be defeated by former President Trump.
“I was telling my wife, I don’t think I’m mentally prepared for a loss. I’m not ready. I have to get to the point where I’m ready for either situation,” Kimmel said. For MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, he thought he was looking forward to a time when they weren’t talking about Trump every day.
Late night host Jimmy Kimmel took aim at Donald Trump as he returned to the White House on Monday. (Screenshot/Kimmel)
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“You have to talk about what happened or what didn’t happen and what message you want to send the next morning,” Kimmel continued. “Most of my shows aren’t important. That one seems a little more important than the others because a lot of people ask me what they think of me and go along with what I think, and it’s a big responsibility.” He added.
