Seth Meyers looked at Donald Trump's rallies in Michigan and Wisconsin over the weekend, in which the former president called migrants "animals", among other anti-immigrant rhetoric. "Trump doesn't want to fix immigration, he just wants to scare people, as evidenced by the way he torpedoed a bipartisan border compromise while his aides drew up plans for mass deportations and detention camps," Meyers said on Late Night.
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"There's only one policy he seems absolutely clear on," he continued. As Trump put it in Wisconsin: "When I win, you're all getting tax cuts and you're getting a brand new Trump economic boom, because that's where we were headed."
Oh, we were headed for an economic boom when you left office?” Meyers scoffed. "He's doing that thing again where he pretends the last year of his presidency didn't happen, like a Bill Cosby biography that ends in 2014. I can't believe I have to say this, but Covid happened and it was bad. The economy crashed and people were locked in their homes.
"Life was obviously demonstrably worse under Trump's presidency, but he and his allies think they can just pretend that everything was fine," Meyers added. "Sometimes they do it by conveniently changing the timeframe." Case in point, as Trump said at his Wisconsin rally: “Three years ago, we were a great nation, and we will soon be a great nation again.”
"Yeah, if only we could have whoever was president three years ago," Meyers laughed. “Three years ago was April 2021, right? Joe Biden was in the White House, and you were moping around your chintzy swamp castle filled with plastic surgeons and their third wives looking paler than the boxes of classified documents you kept stuffed in your bathroom.
"Trump knows he can't say we were better off four years ago, so he tries to change it to three years ago, but the numbers don't work," he concluded. "He's like a kid in remedial math who gets the answer wrong just so he can spell funny words on his calculator."