Seth Meyers: A Closer Look at Trump’s insane Chris Wallace interview

Seth Meyers tried to make sense of President Trump’s interview with Chris Wallace

President Donald Trump believes he’s at his best when he has a camera and a captive audience. It’s when he can deliver his message and talk his way out of any bad press coverage. However, that strategy backfired once again during his recent interview with Chris Wallace. Seth Meyers explained how in “A Closer Look.”

President Trump has made it very clear that he is no fan of Chris Wallace, proving that working for Fox News doesn’t automatically land you in the president’s good graces. Still, President Trump agreed to a prerecorded interview with Wallace for Fox News Sunday.

It is hard to call the interview anything other than a disaster for President Trump. He deflected responsibility for the pandemic response, dismissed the military for its position on renaming bases after Confederate generals, and doubled down on his claim that the basic cognitive function test he took was borderline impossible to pass.

For more, it was time for “A Closer Look” on Monday night’s Late Night with Seth Meyers. Meyers didn’t hesitate to call the interview “insane” during his breakdown:

Seth Meyers called out President Trump for ignoring the pandemic

Seth Meyers points to plenty of evidence to support the claim that President Trump is “bored” of the pandemic. The president rarely mentions COVID-19 despite the number of cases spiking in some states and America’s death toll continuing to go up. Instead, Meyers sees a president engaged in a culture war over beans and playing with trucks.

President Trump did little to challenge Meyers’s position during his Fox News Sunday interview with Chris Wallace. The first quote Meyers pulls from the interview to focus on is a doozy as the president stated “it is what it is” regarding the novel coronavirus death toll in the U.S. Meyers summed it up perfectly:

"When the “it” is a pandemic and the guy saying it is the president, that’s a problem. Had FDR responded to Pearl Harbor with a ‘Sh-t Happens’ t-shirt, we’d probably feel different about him today."

Instead of focusing on the pandemic and reassuring Americans, President Trump was far more concerned with his mental state according to Meyers. That is why the president was so intent on boasting about his performance on a cognitive ability test and suggesting that both Chris Wallace and former Vice President Joe Biden wouldn’t do as well.

Meyers can’t wrap his head around why President Trump is so proud of his performance or why the president had to take it in the first place. Regardless, the Late Night host isn’t encouraged by the fact President Trump can’t seem to cite a specific question from the test.

The best cognitive test to give President Trump? A camera and a microphone. That’s what Meyers says and it’s hard to argue that there is a better way to get insight into the president’s mind than to let him speak freely. There is certainly no better way to get material for “A Closer Look.”

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