Seth Meyers Calls Out Networks for Letting Trump 'Repeat His Lies' in Primetime
President Trump ‘shouldn’t get to address the nation just to repeat his lies,’ Meyers argued Monday night.
Matt Wilstein 01.07.19 11:13 PM ET
After mocking Trump’s various justifications for his $5 billion border wall, Meyers arrived at Trump’s upcoming Tuesday night address to the nation. “Even in his tweet announcing the speech, Trump lied,” the host said.
“First of all, just because Trump wants to address the nation doesn’t mean networks should air it,” Meyers said. “Otherwise, they’re just passing on his lies unfiltered. They should either reject him outright, or if he insists on speaking in primetime, make him do it as a contestant on The Masked Singer.”
“Second, there’s no national security crisis at the border,” he continued. “Trump and his aides keep repeating the debunked lie that terrorists are sneaking in from Mexico.” As a prime example, Meyers pointed to statements made by White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and instantly refuted by Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday this past weekend.
“Look at her face,” Meyers said of Sanders. “She has literally never heard a reporter use the words ‘I studied up on this’ before. That’s her ‘oh shit’ face, she cannot believe she is being fact-checked on Fox News.”
“Trump is totally incoherent and incapable of telling the truth,” Meyers concluded. “He shouldn’t get to address the nation just to repeat his lies.”
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