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Seth Meyers spent most of his newest “A Nearer Look” phase Monday night time imagining simply how a lot worse the state of affairs in Ukraine might be proper now if Donald Trump had efficiently pulled off his coup and remained president.
“We got here very near a world the place Trump was nonetheless in cost throughout Russia’s brutal and unlawful invasion of Ukraine, which is horrifying for a lot of causes,” the Late Evening host defined. “One in every of which is Trump retains giving us a glimpse as to how he would have responded. And as common it has that distinctive Trump mix of being each terrifying and extremely silly on the similar time.”
Meyers was referring to the concept Trump floated over the weekend to GOP donors about portray the Chinese language flag on U.S. planes to allow them to “bomb the shit out of Russia” after which “sit again and watch” as these two superpowers went to struggle with one another.
“He undoubtedly will get his concepts from cartoons,” the host stated. “I imply, this can be a barely stupider model of Bugs Bunny dressing up as a horny girl to distract Elmer Fudd.” He then imagined Trump saying, “We put the Chinese language flag on the planes and if that doesn’t work, we paint a tunnel on the facet of a mountain.”
Meyers additionally had an inkling of the place Trump could have gotten his newest “insane thought” from: Fox Information’ Sean Hannity, who lately referred to as on NATO to take out the Russian convoy headed for Kyiv, including, “After which no one takes credit score for it, so then Putin received’t know who to hit again.”
“Do you genuinely assume that’s the way it works?” Meyers requested. “It’s a thriller until somebody takes credit score for it? It’s an aerial bombing, not a fart at a cocktail party.”
As for these on the appropriate who're claiming this “by no means would have occurred on Trump’s watch,” the host singled out Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who laughably stated Russia wouldn’t have dared invade Ukraine “as a result of Trump would have kicked their ass.”
“He would have kicked their ass,” Meyers stated as Graham. “However he would have completed it with a shoe that stated ‘China’ on the underside so once they checked out their pants later they’d say, ‘No I do know who kicked my ass’ and a struggle would have began between these two nations and we’d be strolling on simple road.”
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