Seth Meyers on Monday mocked Donald Trump’s knack for pushing misleading statistics, including false claims the president spouted about Washington, D.C.’s crime rate in a press conference announcing his plans to take over its police force.
The “Late Night” host stressed that Trump has no shame in rolling out his “made-up numbers” before turning to a clip where Trump displayed a “pretty amazing” chart at an economic press conference in the Oval Office last week.
“All new numbers,” Trump said after several seconds of silence with the chart in his hands. “OK?”
“Wait a second, I’m sorry, what the fuck are you talking about?” said Meyers, who argued that Trump had no clue what the chart was about as he “couldn’t even muster a single word to explain it.”
Meyers aired clips of other instances of Trump showing that numbers aren’t his “strong suit,” including when he listed “seemingly random figures” during his “Liberation Day” tariffs announcement and his wild claim that he’s cutting drug prices by “1500%.”
