A Closer Look: Seth Meyers’s best segments of 2020 so far

5. A Closer Look at Trump’s pandemic address to the nation

This edition of “A Closer Look” came in March when the spread of the novel coronavirus was still relatively new in the U.S. Policies and safety guidelines were changing day-to-day if not hour by hour. Plans to produce late night television shows in an empty studio were eventually scrapped in favor of at-home episodes.

Late Night with Seth Meyers has made the most of that situation. Recording from his attic at home, Seth Meyers has continued to deliver comedy with help from his kids, a running gag involving a book, and occasionally Ethan Hawke.

Here, in one of his last days inside the 30 Rock studios, Meyers took a closer look at President Donald Trump addressing the nation. It’s even tougher to watch now in July knowing what the country was in for.

It was the first time that Meyers called the Trump administration’s response to COVID-19 a failure. It’s a point that he would hammer again and again over the following three months. “A Closer Look” attempts to expose why the president was not equipped to handle a health crisis of this magnitude and it started with this installment in March.