Seth Meyers Zeroes In On The Deeper Problem With Trump’s Latest Unhinged Comments

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Seth Meyers used his Wednesday segment to address Donald Trump's remarks suggesting Iran could ‘take out’ Los Angeles or San Diego, after widespread criticism interpreted the comment as the president inviting an attack on two American cities. Meyers offered a charitable interpretation — that Trump meant the war's costs are worth it compared to the risk of Iran getting a nuclear weapon — before objecting to having to make that translation at all.

Meyers' core complaint was structural: that the president communicates in, as he put it, incoherent half-sentences that require outside interpretation, and that this remains true regardless of what Trump actually intended by the remark.

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Watching a comedian do the president's press office's job for free tells you something about how that press office is doing. If the leader of the free world needs a ‘Late Night’ host to clarify he didn't mean to invite a bombing, the clarifying should maybe happen before the cameras, not after. A neighbor who mumbles at the fence long enough stops getting asked what he meant and starts just getting ignored, and that's a dangerous habit to form around nuclear rhetoric.

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