I’m not a regular watcher of Seth Meyers. But tonight I caught his opening monologue, “Trump's Response to the Orlando Shooting: A Closer Look”, and jeez, he presented a fairly straightforward, no bullshit take on Trump. He just put it out there, factually, interspersed with some jokes and video clips. It was impressive, and a model that all the mainstream, corporate media should but won’t follow.
Video here.
Some transcript excerpts from his monologue:
Man, I gotta say, when it comes to bigotry, Trump keeps upping his game.
… But still, even for Trump, Monday was a new low…
Trump complained that the Washington Post has reported inaccurately on comments he made in which he seems to suggest that President Obama sympathized with terrorists, comments Trump made in an interview on Monday morning…..
Sure, Trump didn’t say it, he implied it….
But Trump’s vague innuendo is no accident, this is a strategy he uses to try to appeal to the outer fringes while also trying to avoid accountability….
As for the Washington Post, we here at Late Night believe in freedom of the press, and therefore have decided to stand in solidarity with them….
[Trump video excerpt]
To be clear this is bigotry, plain and simple, to claim that any group of people, immigrants or anyone else, has anything in common with the terrorist murderer based simply on their ethnic background, or their religion, or where there from, is dangerous and wrong.
And that wasn’t the only heinous and patently false statement Trump made on Monday.
He also claimed without a shred of evidence that there are Muslims in this country who are knowingly protecting terrorists.
More of this, please.