“Late Night” host Seth Meyers clowned conservatives on Wednesday for insisting that Donald Trump isn’t “acting like a king” following massive “No Kings” protests this past weekend.
Meyers — who declared that Republicans were “really offended” by the implication — played a supercut of the president, his son Donald Trump Jr., Fox News hosts and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) dismissing such talk.
Meyers went on to emphasize that Trump is no king.
″[A king is] someone who presumes the power to do whatever they want without consulting anyone else, someone who treats public property and the resources of the state as their own,” he began.
“Someone who surrounds themselves with lavish appointments and gilded furnishings and the trappings of wealth and power and — oh fuck, I just realized where this is going!”
He swiftly turned to news coverage of demolition at the White House as crews are expected to tear down the entire East Wing by this weekend to make way for the president’s 90,000-square-foot, $250 million ballroom.
Trump — in remarks from the White House on Tuesday — suggested that presidents have wanted a “world-class” ballroom for 150 years.
Meyers took issue with Trump’s comments.
“I don’t remember JFK ever saying, ‘Ask not what your country can do for you, ask how you can build a ballroom for your country,’” he joked.
He later likened the “insane” pictures of the East Wing demolition to a scene out of an “apocalyptic, disaster movie.”
“This is the first thing aliens do in movies to announce they’re evil, they blow up the White House. Trump is just cutting out the middleman of invading aliens,” he quipped.
Check out more of Meyers’ Wednesday monologue on “Late Night.”
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