Seth Meyers Torches Trump’s Cupboard ‘Goblins and Weirdos’

As President-elect Donald Trump continues to announce his choices for his Cupboard — a roster of loyalists from intercourse crime-investigated Matt Gaetz for U.S. legal professional basic to puppy-killing South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem to go Native land Safety — late-night hosts were weighing in on what’s shaping as much as be a vengeance-fueled Trump management.

On Wednesday’s phase of “Nearer Glance,” Seth Meyers commented on Wednesday’s transient show of cordiality after President Joe Biden invited his predecessor to the White Area, a ceremonial custom Trump kept away from in 2020. After rolling a clip of Biden telling Trump he used to be “taking a look ahead to having… a easy transition” and making sure the president-elect his group would “do the whole thing we will to be sure to’re accommodated,” Meyers joked that the stress within the room used to be “palpable.”

“Whilst Biden’s in search of techniques to house Trump, Trump’s in search of techniques to rip down the whole thing Biden did. As an example, Trump’s been actively striking in combination his Pandora’s cupboard of goblins and weirdos,” Meyers endured. “Trump’s gonna sic them at the executive like a number of ferrets on ketamine.”

The late-night host additionally slammed Trump’s announcement that billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead a brand new “Division of Govt Potency” (DOGE). In his observation launched Tuesday, Trump declared that the 2 marketers might be tasked with paving the best way for his management “to dismantle Govt Paperwork, slash extra laws, lower wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Businesses.”

“Elon Musk is the richest guy on this planet with Protection Division contracts and connections to overseas governments. Those companies regulated through the government,” Meyers stated. “Now he’s principally co-president. It’s ludicrously corrupt.”

To emphasise the president-elect’s choice for MAGA die-hard loyalty over revel in, Meyers mocked Trump’s choice to make a choice Fox Information character Pete Hegseth as his secretary of protection.

“That’s proper, a Fox Information host might be in control of the Protection Division. I understand it sounds dangerous, however reportedly it used to be both going to be him or the Common,” the late-night host quipped, referencing the mustachioed mascot in the back of The Common Insurance coverage.