“Late Night” host Seth Meyers clowned Donald Trump on Monday after the president shared a seemingly artificial intelligence-generated video where he promised a “secret healing technology” — the “medbed” — to Americans.
“By the way, there is a secret healing technology that elites have access to, it’s called health insurance and our government really could give everyone access to it if they wanted to,” said Meyers, whose audience erupted in cheers.
Trump, in the since-deleted, phony clip shared to social media this past weekend, pushed a QAnon-fueled conspiracy theory and spoke of U.S. citizens getting “guaranteed access” to a cure-all hospital bed.
Meyers said it’s “truly scary” that Trump doesn’t appear to know the difference between fiction and reality, pointing to his plan to send federal troops to “war ravaged” Portland, Oregon, to protect U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities from “domestic terrorists.”
The ICE facility in Portland has been at the site of protests against Trump’s immigration agenda. Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, in a phone call with Trump regarding his plan, noted that she commented on the city’s protests remaining peaceful and suggested that his views of the city don’t match reality.
Trump told NBC News that he questioned whether what he was watching on television was “different from what’s happening.”
Meyers quipped, “Yeah, man, we all are. The difference is a lot of us have the critical thinking skills to suss out what’s real and what’s not.”
He continued, “Like there used to be this show that portrayed you as a brilliant businessman that can turn Meat Loaf into a CEO, but we all know that in reality you tried to sell steaks in an electronic store and you couldn’t keep a casino open — a casino! That’s like a mother losing money.”