Seth Meyers: 'We're just one Epstein story away from Trump announcing that UFOs are real'

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/jul/25/seth-meyers-trump-epstein


Seth Meyers opened his Late Night Closer Look segment on Thursday with clips of Donald Trump explicitly instructing Republicans to talk about Barack Obama stealing an election when asked about Jeffrey Epstein. “It’s like watching a magic trick and it’s also a shitty trick,” Meyers laughed. “But Trump seemed confident that this tactic would work.”

“It’s a transparent gimmick,” he added, “and now he’s got his intelligence director fully on board,” as Tulsi Gabbard joined a White House briefing to repeat a conspiracy theory that Obama ordered an investigation into Russia and the 2016 election in order to hurt Trump.

“Whatever is in those Epstein files must be really fucking bad,” Meyers mused. “They must be finding so many mentions of Trump they’re going to have to change the name to the Trump files featuring Jeffrey Epstein. They’re so desperate to distract everyone, they’re claiming that Barack Obama is guilty of treasonous conspiracy and leading a coup against Trump. Barack Obama? The guy couldn’t even get away with smoking a cigarette in his own house.”

“I honestly think we’re just one Epstein story away from Trump announcing that UFOs are real,” he quipped.