Seth Meyers and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene have found unlikely common ground. During Monday’s “A Closer Look” segment on Late Night With Seth Meyers, the host fired back at President Donald Trump‘s calls over the weekend for NBC to fire him.
“You guys! They said my name on TV! It’s not often you hear the name Seth Meyers on TV before midnight,” joked Meyers when remarking on the media’s coverage. “I’m also aware that being attacked by the president this weekend doesn’t make me special in any way, shape or form. I was simply on the same shit list as Christopher Wray, James Comey, Indiana Republicans, Thomas Massie, Rand Paul, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and and former President Joe Biden.”
“I want to clarify that I take no issue with the president voicing his displeasure with my show. That is his right, and on a lot of nights, he’s got a point,” continued Myers, before taking issue with the president’s grammar. “But I would like to unpack this sentence from Trump’s post about me: ‘He was viewed last night in an uncontrollable rage.’ Not to repeat something I’m sure you’ve heard many times over the years from your English teachers, but what’s with the passive voice my man?”
Meyers then segued into Trump’s “feud with Republicans over the Epstein files,” and his MAGA civil war with Greene, who was once one of the president’s staunchest allies. The Georgia Republican has been pushing for the Department of Justice to release the files and even signed onto a discharge petition, along with Democrats and three of her Republican colleagues, demanding the files be made public.
Trump has since called the congresswoman a “traitor” on Truth Social, and on Friday, pulled his endorsement and support of Greene.
“I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I finally have something in common with Marjorie Taylor Greene,” observed Meyers on his show. “You know, Trump’s really bringing the country together. The only difference is, she got a cool nickname: ‘Marjorie Traitor Greene’ is way cooler than ‘Marble Mouth Meyers.’”
Meyers previously mocked Trump over how his administration has been responding to the recently released batch of Jeffrey Epstein emails, in which Epstein claimed that Trump “knew about the girls” in Epstein’s sex trafficking case. As the House prepares to vote Tuesday, Trump dropped his longstanding resistance and said he would sign a bill that would order the DOJ to release all the files tied to the convicted sex offender.
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