Announcer tonight on late night with seth meyers. Cynthia nixon. Grammy awardwinning singer songwriter Michael Stipe. Host of wilmore, writer and comedian Larry Wilmore featuring the 8g band with sonny emory. And now seth meyers. Seth good evening. Im seth meyers. This is late night. Hows everyone doing tonight lets get to the news. President trump appeared at a town hall event in philadelphia last night for undecided voters. Said trump, hey, what are you doing here . After a town hall participant confronted President Trump last night over his lack of support for a National Face mask mandate, trump said, quote, there are a lot of people that think that masks are not good. Its true. I mean, not as many as there used to be, of course. During last nights abc news town hall, President Trump mistakenly claimed that people would be protected from the coronavirus when they develop a, quote, herd mentality. Now, obviously what he meant to say was i am bad at this and i resign. Thats right trump said people who developed, quote, herd mentality. You mean herd immunity herd mentality is what its called when you kill 200,000 people and supporters vote for you anyway. When asked at an interview yesterday about the upcoming president ial debates against former Vice President joe biden, President Trump said biden may be, quote, taking something that gives him clarity. Oh, like his Daily Press Briefings . During the town hall event, President Trump claimed that he, quote, up played the coronavirus pandemic. When asked if he made that term up, he said, i actually made it down i made down that expression. Hes a real hes a real jon bovi [ laughter ] in a new interview, veteran Journalist Bob Woodward said he wasnt sure if President Trump has it, quote, straight in his head what is real and what is unreal. Said trump, wait a minute you guys could see bob woodward too . Today was National Working parents day, and once again, it fell on Opening Night of billys play and finally the makers of mountain dew announced yesterday that they have developed a cocktail for seafood chain red lobster called the dew garita so, remember, thats not a margarita. Thats a dewgarita youre hosing out of the back of your uber and that was a monologue, just shrimp and dewgarita. You guys, weve got a great show for you tonight. Shes an incredible actress and activist, Cynthia Nixon will be here plus, the great Michael Stipe will be joining me to talk about vote. Org and his new music and Larry Wilmore has a new late night show coming to peacock i cant wait to talk to him. But before we get to all of that, the president participated in an abc town hall with undecided voters last night where he lied as often as he breathed for more on this, its time for a closer look. Seth abc invited trump to a primetime town hall last night for some reason. And honestly, im not sure i see the value in hosting an event like this. We know what hes going to say hes going to repeat the same deranged lies weve heard a million times. The only tv show it would be worth having trump on is ellens game of games. Then at least we could see him lie and drop into a pool full of jelly beans or get sprayed with a hose full of chocolate sauce of course, you know, thats probably what he wants oh, no, not the chocolate sauce hose. Really, the best you can hope for with a town hall like this is a new lie for reporters to debunk you know, they say coronavirus can be cured by swallowing a golf ball covered in emergenc while shining a laser pointer up your butt. And then the reporters say, oh, thats a new one quick, someone factcheck that this ones going to get us the pulitzer. Although, i will say the one genuinely valuable service with a town hall like this is watching normal people interact with a nut job like trump. Anchors and reporters, they all adhere to a certain level of decorum and tradition even though trump is an obvious crazy person but normal people react differently because they have had experience with it when you ride the bus or the subway to work every day, you interact with your fair share of trumps most people just ignore the dude on the subway yelling about mind control cockroaches stealing our cigarettes but if wolf blitzer ever rode the f train, he would have to say, sir, whats your proof of that and im sorry, were out of time well have to leave it there. Case in point, last night, a voter asked trump about his repeated attempts to repeal obamacare and do away with its protections for pre existing conditions, including a lawsuit his administration has filed with the Supreme Court and when trump tried to interrupt her, she asked him to let her finish should preexisting conditions, which obamacare brought into brought to fruition be removed no. Without please stop and let me finish my question, sir seth oh, its so cathartic to see someone put trump in his place like that. Can we please let her moderate all three debates . And can we hold them in a middle school so every time trump gets reprimanded like that he has to sit in the corner facing the wall thats what happens when trump steps outside his rightwing media bubble most of the time he surrounds himself with sycophants and yes men. So hes rarely treated like the idiot blowhard he is fox news hosts dont interrupt trump when he calls into fox friends and rambles for an hour the hosts just sit there staring blankly into the camera like theyre posing for passport photos they look like those out of town tourists in times square watching elmo drop his pants and take a dump on the sidewalk. In fact, fox news is apparently so shocked and disturbed by the idea of trump answering questions from voters that Laura Ingraham played a montage of those questions with the lower third abc springs ambush on President Trump at town hall. Man, they just never ever stop making excuses for him look, its not a gotcha book when bob woodward tells you hes recording the interview for a book and its not an ambush if youre invited to participate in a town hall and you say yes when washington wanted to ambush the hessians, he crossed the Delaware River secretly in the middle of the night. He didnt send them an invitation on parchment that said rsvp for an ass kicking in trenton. The president youre telling me voters asking him questions about his record is an ambush you guys sound like whiney teenagers who just got called to a family meeting tyler, is this marijuana i found in your bedroom . You went in my room this is an ambush. Im going to scoochs lake house for the weekend. I mean, i was going anyway, but now im going to use this ambush excuse also, i need that weed because i sounded like i promised scooch and i feel like it would be a big deal if i dont show up with weed what oh, my god, thats a gotcha question. But the exchange about healthcare and preexisting conditions led to one of trumps most infuriating lies, that hes the one protecting pre existing conditions, when in reality he is currently suing in the Supreme Court to get rid of them and when stephanopoulos factchecked him to his face, trump repeated yet another absurd lie about his supposedly forthcoming Healthcare Plan that definitely does not exist. Youve been promising a new Healthcare Plan. We interview i interviewed you in june of last year you said the Healthcare Plan would come in two weeks. You told Chris Wallace that this summer, it would come in three weeks. You promised an executive order of a preexisting i have it already i have it already. But its youve been trying to strike down preexisting conditions it doesnt matter i have it already. And its a much better plan for you and its a much better plan. Seth yeah, man, totally. Im sure well see that Healthcare Plan as soon as we see those tax returns. It makes sense that this guy owned casinos because he talks about policy like an inveterate gambler whos in deep with a loan shark ill get you your money just give me two weeks, three weeks top. Tom bradys never let me down before oh, wait, hes on the bucs now. And if that lie sounds familiar to you, its because trump has repeated a version of it at least 16 times according to washington post. Trump lies about healthcare in interviews the way billy joel plays piano man at concerts. He might start out with the new stuff but eventually hes going to heave that heavy sigh and strap on the harmonica and, look, there were too many lies in this town hall to keep track of, which again, is why it makes no sense to do it in the first place. But if you are going to do it, then you should at least have a journalist like daniel dale on standby because after the town hall, he ran through all his factchecks on cnn as quickly as he could there is just so much lying, don. Im going to go quickly here so, literally just stop me whenever you need to he said again democrats wont protect people with preexisting conditions that is nonsense he insisted he didnt praise china on the virus he did so repeatedly he claimed that biden said in march that the pandemic was, quote, totally over exaggerated. I can find no evidence that biden ever said that he said that protesters took over 20 of seattle. It was a sixblock area. Nowhere close to 20 he said he essentially repealed obamacare by getting rid of individual mandate not even close to true he did his usual false boast about socalled bans on travel from china and europe. They were not complete bans. This is a preliminary list i have hours of factchecking tonight to do because there is even more than this. So this was just a fire hose of lying again from the president seth better than a fire hose of chocolate. Just kidding thats my favorite kind of hose. My god, someone get that man some oxygen. I half expected an arm to reach out with a cup of water like he was running a marathon trump lies so much, hes turned factcheckers into auctioneers in order to factcheck a trump town hall, reporters have to talk like theyre describing the side effects at the end of a drug commercial. So the lies were too numerous to count, but an especially revealing moment came when stephanopoulos asked trump about his repeated attempts to downplay the threat of the coronavirus. Last week we found out from his taped interviews with Journalist Bob Woodward that trump privately knew how dangerous the virus was and admitted in his own words that he wanted to always play it down. Remember, in public, trump was saying stuff like this its a little like the regular flu that we have flu shots for a lot of people will have this, and its very mild theyll get better very rapidly. They dont even see a doctor they dont even call a doctor. We show cases 99 of which are totally harmless we lose thousands of people a year to the flu. We never turned the country off. We lose much more than that to automobile accidents we didnt call up the Automobile Companies and say, stop making cars, we dont want any cars anymore. Seth i mean, if someone made a car that killed over 900,000 people across the world in eight months, then, yeah, i mean, wed probably stop making that car you know, honey, i like the toyota camry a lot, but what do you think about the dodge death trap it has no doors or seatbelts and the air bags have been replaced with knives, but its a really cool blue. Second, we dont ban all cars because we know how to make cars safer. And we have laws regulating how to make them, who can drive them and how fast they can go if you want to compare the situations, then you should be fine with covid laws regulating large crowds but, instead, youre the one breaking laws in states like nevada and holding giant coughathons in indoor arenas you might as well make everyone lick the door knob when they walk in. So thats what trump was saying in public, but in private as we now know, he was telling woodward the virus was deadly, as we heard in yet another new tape released on monday. This thing is a killer if it gets you if youre the wrong person, you dont have a chance. Yes, yes, exactly this is a no, this this rips you apart this is scourge and it is the plague. Seth how is it possible for the same person to sound so completely different from one conversation to the next trump is our first werepresident he almost sounds semi coherent on the phone with woodward i think whats going on here is when he wants to impress he woodward, he tries to sound like he knows what and then when he wants to lie to his supporters, he goes out and says stuff like, coronavirus is basically just a rash. All you need is some ointment and an oatmeal bath. So trump knew how deadly the virus was and admitted in his own words that he played it down and yet he once again lied during the town hall when he was asked about those comments all through january and february, you were downplaying by your own admission the severity of the crisis that you didnt want to panic people. Not downplay let me just ask the question first. Im not downplaying but those are your words. I dont want to drive our nation into a panic. Why would you downplay a pandemic that is known to disproportionately harm lowincome families and minority communities . Yeah. Well, i didnt downplay it i actually, in many ways, i upplayed it in terms of action. So, that was called action, not with a mouth, but an actual fact seth well, its like they always say, actions are stronger than mouth i upplayed it not with the mouth but in actual facts sounds like a poorly translated bus ad youd see in a foreign country hot pocket is delicious, not with the mouth but an actual fact. The president is less coherent than a sim in fact, hed make just as much sense if he spoke the sim language instead of whatever language he normally speaks. He some pop zoom zeebledoob hergelm wassam fers. Seth so trump once again claims he didnt want to cause a panic. This is the same guy who says planes full of anarchists are coming to destroy the suburbs. All the guy does is panic. Hes like an old lady peering out her front window at a new neighbor across the streetm. I think hes antifa. Its the pizza guy. Ant tizza . Trump and his supporters and rightwing media have also been desperate to make the president ial campaign a referendum on the candidates Mental Fitness for example, twice on fox news, including during his interview yesterday with the fox friends, trump has repeated his deranged lie that joe biden is using performanceenhancing drugs, at both times the host either nodded in approval or teed up trump with a softball question how do you think he goes from incoherent to coherent i think theres probably possibly drugs involved. Thats what i hear you have suggested that joe biden should take a drug test i do. I would take one too yeah, i would say he should take a drug test. You think hes taking some sort of drugs to pep him up . I do. I do hes taking something. Hes taking something or, you know, what gives him some clarity. Seth probably what Bradley Cooper took in limitless. i think its probably a limitless drug. A drug that gives you clarity, either he knows something we dont or he has completely misinterpreted claritin. Also im sorry, you think biden is taking drugs . You sniffle like you just walked out of the bathroom at studio 54. [ sniffles ] seth so trump wants you to think joe biden is the one in cognitive decline. And yet when trump defended his lie that coronavirus would just magically go away, he tried to claim he would soon reach herd immunity, which is a lie and also incredibly dangerous without a vaccine. And on top of that, couldnt seem to remember the term. It would go away without the vaccine, george. But its going to go away a lot faster it would go away without the vaccine . Sure, over a period of time sure, with time it goes away and many deaths and youll develop youll develop like a herd mentality. Its going to be its going to be herd developed and thats going to happen. Seth thats what i herd. Oh, yes, itll go away once we have achieved herd mentality if thats the case then i guess Trump Supporters are already cured. Hes like a drunk guy at the bar who claims he has a home remedy for your cold. You got to try euthanasia. Do you mean echinacea . He meant to say herd immunity but couldnt remember it you know, if joe biden really is taking a magical drug that gives him clarity, then maybe you should try a little of that too. I mean, how much worse could it make you every time you do one of these insane interviews you sound like you just got done huffing asbestos these interviews with trump always go the same way he spews too many lies to count, and then factcheckers scramble to debunk everything hes a serial con artist and pathological liar, or to put it in trumpese, he upplays the nontruths not with the mouth but in actual fact. Seth this has been a closer look. Well be right back with Cynthia Nixon. For more of seths closer looks, be sure to subscribe to late night on youtube. Woo go go go go go go go go on a real vacation. Visit go rving. Com or your nearest rv dealer. Have your attention. [sound fx bing] pull up a seat begin the lesson ba da bum, lets go mmm, sorry i got that, you got that, we got that boom tonight, try pure zzzs all night. Unlike other sleep aids, our extended release melatonin helps you sleep longer. And longer. Zzzquil pure zzzs all night. Fall asleep. Stay asleep. 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