Seth Meyers Says 5 'Desperate' Words From Trump Are 'The Subtext' Of Everything He Does
“Late Night” host Seth Meyers on Wednesday mocked Donald Trump’s response to Democrat Tom Suozzi’s defeat of Republican Mazi Melesa Pilip in the special election to replace the expelled former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.).
Trump ranted on his Truth Social platform that Pilip was a “very foolish woman” who, essentially, didn’t toady up to him enough to secure his endorsement.
“I STAYED OUT OF THE RACE, ‘I WANT TO BE LOVED!’” wrote the former president and quadruply indicted Republican 2024 front-runner.
Meyers suggested it sounded like “a desperate plea from a man bereft of human attention, human affection on the eve of Valentine’s Day.”
Those five words — “I want to be loved” — are also “the subtext of everything Trump has ever said or done,” the comedian added. “The only way it could be clearer is if he’d added ‘by my father’ to the end of it.”
Meyers then imagined what would’ve happened if President Joe Biden had posted the same message online.
“Every Democrat would lose their shit saying, ‘He’s a sad old man,’” Meyers said. “But Trump does it and the entire Republican base is all, ‘He cool, like a teen.’”
Watch Meyers’ full monologue here:
