ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! and NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers were the only late night comedy shows to tape original episodes on Monday, and both used the occasion to prove that Friday’s meeting between President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani proved that the latter isn’t the scary monster that conservatives have portrayed him as. At the same time, the duo argued the meeting also proves that Trump normally works with people who could be considered “AI-generated human vomits” or “charmless goons.”
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Later on NBC, Meyers broke out his Trump voice to claim, “And you know what's cool about him is that he's cool, but he doesn't act like he's cool, you know? He's, like, nice to the jocks and the nerds.”
Like Kimmel, Meyers also hyped the idea that the meeting could normalize the radical Mamdani, “Seriously, though, like, what the [bleep] is happening? Either Zohran charmed Trump into embracing democratic socialism and undercutting every scare tactic the right has weaponized against him for the past six months, or the molly Trump took right before the meeting kicked in.”
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. steve malzberg
