Seth Meyers takes a closer look at President Trump’s crimes and cabinet

With Donald Trump’s actions already under a microscope, Seth Meyers takes a closer look at criminal allegations against the president and another cabinet shakeup.

Stop us if you’ve heard this before, but it was another tough week for President Donald Trump. Court filings suggested that Trump, AKA Individual-1, instructed his lawyer Michael Cohen to commit campaign finance violations. And then despite only hiring the best people, his chief of staff John Kelly has ended their contentious relationship.

This news is no big deal if you believe President Trump’s Twitter feed. He was quick to say he was cleared of any wrongdoing.  He has also challenged claims that he and Kelly were no longer on speaking terms despite several reports indicating that Kelly was frustrated while working under Trump.

In typical Trump fashion, he first defended himself and then went on the attack once the heat was turned up on him. He had plenty to say about Cohen, the fake news media, and Democrats. That’s where Seth Meyers picked up his latest “A Closer Look” segment on last night’s Late Night.

After providing the comebacks for those insulted by President Trump, Meyers started to address some real issues surrounding these stories. First was the issue of John Kelly as the sort of moral compass and only level-headed adult in the Trump White House. Kelly had to have known the type of person and leader Trump was yet he remained in the position and not much changed during his tenure as chief of staff.

As Meyers points out, it’s indicative of the standards set by the White House. The same standards that let the president seek praise for not disrupting a funeral. Kelly bringing “order and discipline” was framed as what was going to save things from going completely off the rails.

From there, Late Night moved on to every late night show’s favorite Trump topics: his incompetence and his shady behavior. It’s not surprising at this point that Trump doesn’t understand how government works. But you’d expect him to have a better understanding of his own dubious actions. Not so much, says Meyers.

Synergy or collusion, whatever term is used in reports or court documents don’t matter to President Trump. They don’t matter because he won’t read them. It makes you wonder whether he is just in denial over it all or if there is someone at the White House telling him that everything is fine and he’s almost in the clear. That doesn’t exactly sound like the order and discipline installed by John Kelly, does it?