Late-night hosts addressed US-Iran tensions, Trump’s failed businesses and Hillary Clinton’s ‘ridiculous’ Epstein hearing
On Thursday night, late-night hosts remarked on the Jeffrey Epstein investigations, the threat of a US attack on Iran and Donald Trump nominating a wellness influencer as the next US surgeon general.
Meyers focused on the president’s criticisms of a landmark 2015 deal between Iran and world powers in which the country agreed to curb their nuclear program. “I’ve been making lots of wonderful deals, great deals,” Trump said. “That’s what I do. Never in my life have I seen any transaction so incompetently negotiated as our deal with Iran.”
Meyers took the opportunity to factcheck this. “Your companies went bankrupt six times,” he remarked, before listing Trump’s failed business ventures, including Trump Airlines, Trump Vodka, Trump Steaks, Trump Vitamins and Trump: The Game, a Trumpified version of Monopoly. “Seriously, can you imagine sitting at home and playing this with your family?” asked the host. “‘Oh, looks like I landed on Community Chest.’ It says: ‘Uh oh, you slept with a pornstar! Pay $130,000.’”
Meyers went on to discuss the inefficacy of US strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities in June 2025 as part of “Operation Midnight Hammer”, which reportedly only set the country’s nuclear efforts back half a year. “All that for six months?” the host reacted. “Are you sure it wasn’t ‘Operation Midnight Love Tap’?”
