Seth Meyers has already laid in to Donald Trump’s announcement that he’ll be internet hosting this yr’s Kennedy Middle Honors, however on Thursday he took goal at one particular half: Trump claiming that he filtered some artists out on the idea that they had been “too woke”.
“I might say I used to be about 98 % concerned,” Trump stated at a press convention, discussing the choice course of. “I turned down loads: They had been too woke. I had a few wokesters.”
“I am sorry, did he say ‘wokesters’? A wokester feels like a automobile your great-grandfather drove after the warfare. ‘I had a 1939 wokester that I drove all the best way to the state honest, the place I offered it for a funnel cake. Ohhh, I miss my wokester,'” says Meyers within the clip above, earlier than turning his consideration to right-wing commentators who wish to complain about free speech censorship.
“Shout out to the free speech warriors going radio silent whereas the president simply totally admits he is punishing artists for his or her politics,’ Meyers says. “You retain doing you, however solely when it suits your worldview, you f***ing hypocrites.”
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