Seth Meyers used his Wednesday "Late Night" monologue to ridicule President Donald Trump for a "very weird" on-air remark about Fox News personalities, after playing a supercut of the president linking his deployment of National Guard troops to a return to normalcy in Washington, D.C.
Meyers focused on a clip in which Trump, calling into Fox & Friends, appeared to refer to host Sean Hannity and fellow Fox personality Ainsley Earhardt by suggesting Hannity "might take a very lovely young lady that he knows very, very well to dinner in Washington," then adding, "she's sitting right next to you, by the way. I better — I don't want to get him in trouble so I better explain exactly. We don't want any secrets here." Earhardt reacted on live television as the call unfolded.
After airing the excerpt, Meyers mocked the comment and delivered an impression of the president. "Well, I think they maybe wanted secrets here or else they would have fucking spilled the beans!" he said on air, then mimicked Trump’s explanation, saying, "I don't want to get them in any trouble so let me explain, in detail, what the secret is." Meyers also noted during the segment that Hannity and Earhardt are engaged.
The monologue was framed by a longer supercut in which Trump credited his decision to deploy National Guard troops to Washington with allowing people to dine out again, a point Meyers used to tie together the president’s public safety claims and the live-TV exchange. The late-night host’s segment included pointed commentary and satire typical of late-night coverage of presidential remarks.
The exchange drew attention because it played out live on Fox & Friends, where Earhardt was visibly reacting while Trump spoke. Meyers’ rundown is part of the broader late-night coverage that often highlights and critiques presidential statements through editing, impersonation and comedic framing.
The clip is available as part of Meyers’ Wednesday episode of "Late Night," where he regularly addresses political developments and current events with a mix of analysis and humor. The segment followed the airing of multiple Trump statements that linked his actions on security to changes in public life in the capital, which the president has cited during his campaign appearances.
Meyers’ remarks add to ongoing media coverage of how political figures communicate on television and how late-night hosts respond to those communications. The on-air back-and-forth underscores the increasingly visible interplay between political newsmakers and the media outlets that both host and critique them.