Just a day after declaring presumptive GOP candidate Donald Trump would be banned from his show, NBC’s Late Night host Seth Meyers is now offering Trump his own show if he drops out of the race for the White House.
On Wednesday night, Meyers told his audience:
"We instituted this ban despite the fact that he's never been here, or asked to be here, or would ever be caught dead here. I just think that takes an amazing amount of courage on our part…So, ball is in your court, Donald…Either rescind your Washington Post ban or you're not allowed to appear on a show you have no interest in appearing on. Although maybe now that you can't have it, you're changing your mind."
Trump slammed Meyers in his response:
"[Meyers] has begged me to do the show for the last two years. I have told him emphatically 'no,' I only like doing shows with good ratings, which as everybody knows, I only make better (by a lot)."
But Meyers didn’t stop there. He joked that his network would volunteer to script and shoot a 13 episode series for Trump – only one thing – Trump has to drop out of the race before the Republican National Convention.
Meyers said:
"As Trump continues to say more and more outlandish things in his campaign, there is a theory that is floating around in some circles. Some people think Donald Trump doesn’t actually want to be president…The idea is that Trump never actually thought he would get this far; he just wanted the publicity and the ego boost that came from running. And now that he’s actually succeeding, he’s trying to undermine his own campaign, so that he’ll lose."
Meyers, who said he wasn’t sure whether or not that is true, but if so, added:
"I wanted to announce here for the first time on our show to Donald Trump, if you drop out of the presidential race any time between now and the beginning of the GOP convention on July 18, NBC will award you a 13-episode scripted series where you would play the president of the United States of America. You hear that?"
"Embrace this, Donald. This is what you want, to have all the trappings of the presidency without any of the responsibilities and even better, the rest of us would get to watch you be president but with no real-world consequences, because let’s be honest, we all do kinda want to see what it would be like if you were president," Meyers continued. "It’s like kids throwing rocks at a beehive. They know it’s dangerous, but they just wanna see what’s gonna go down."
Of course a disclaimer soon popped up with the peacock logo on screen, reading: "“NBC has a problem with this offer. It is not real.”
I wonder if Meyers would offer the same deal to Hillary Clinton – and it wouldn’t even have to be a fake series since there would be enough scandals and killings and dirty politics to last 10 seasons.
