Seth Meyers slams Trump's golf trip: 'In a real emergency, no one goes to the omelette bar'

The 'Late Night' host went to town.
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Seth Meyers slams Trump's golf trip: 'In a real emergency, no one goes to the omelette bar'
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Late Night host Seth Meyers absolutely eviscerated Trump's press conference regarding his declaration of a national emergency to build his border wall.

Tackling Trump's speech delivered at the White House on Friday, Meyers noticed it was "less of a declaration and more of a sing-song ramble." He's not wrong, as you can see in the clip.

"He sounds like a five-year-old telling you what he saw at the zoo," Meyers said.

Meyers pointed out that in order to build a case against lawsuits challenging the declaration, the president in his speech should have insisted that he had to do this. Instead, Trump said he "could do the wall over a longer period of time. I didn't need to do this, but I'd rather do it much faster."

"You didn't need to do this then it's not an emergency!" Meyers added. "That's the exact opposite of an emergency, that's a choice. That's like saying I'm having emergency surgery to get butt implants."

Meyers also pointed out that just one day after the announcement, the president took a trip to Florida for a weekend of golfing, where a photo of Trump was taken standing at his private Palm Beach club's omelette bar.

"There's no clearer sign that this is not a real emergency than the fact that he is at an omelette bar," Meyers said. "In a real emergency, no one goes to the omelette bar."

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Shannon Connellan
UK Editor

Shannon Connellan is Mashable's UK Editor based in London, formerly Mashable's Australia Editor, but emotionally, she lives in the Creel House. A Tomatometer-approved critic, Shannon writes about entertainment, tech, social good, science, culture, and Australian horror.


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