Seth Meyers breaks down the 'insane' things Trump said about hurricanes, climate change, and Colombia this week

There's a lot to get through.
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Seth Meyers breaks down the 'insane' things Trump said about hurricanes, climate change, and Colombia this week
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Late Night with Seth Meyers has returned after a two-week break, and just like your inbox after a holiday, there is a huge amount of crap to sort through.

Meyers runs through the fudged book report vibe of the president trying to comment on the Colombian FARC crisis and his climate change remarks at the G7, as well as the "fake-principled, holier-than-thou PenceBot short-circuiting" in Ireland.

But most notably, there's Trump's bizarre claim over Labor Day weekend that Category 5 hurricanes like Dorian -- which has been downgraded to Category 2 but continues to threaten southern states along the East Coast -- are so rare that he's never even heard of there being one before. Cue a montage of no fewer than seven previous times Trump has said some variation on this on camera.

"You've already had three of them as president," Meyers points out. "You've definitely heard of them -- you just forgot."

And, he adds, that's also not what you want to hear from your country's leader ahead of an impending natural disaster.

"It’s like if you called 911 and the operator was like ‘S***! A 104-degree fever? I didn’t know they went that high!”

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Caitlin Welsh

Caitlin is Mashable's Australian Editor. She has written for The Guardian, Junkee, and any number of plucky little music and culture publications that were run on the smell of an oily rag and have since been flushed off the Internet like a dead goldfish by their new owners. She also worked at Choice, Australia's consumer advocacy non-profit and magazine, and as such has surprisingly strong opinions about whitegoods. She enjoys big dumb action movies, big clever action movies, cult Canadian comedies set in small towns, Carly Rae Jepsen, The Replacements, smoky mezcal, revenge bedtime procrastination, and being left the hell alone when she's reading.


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