“Late Evening”’s Seth Meyers expenses Trump with invading one other nation due to its chief’s ‘depraved dance strikes’

Seth Meyers cited a report that the Trump administration selected to assault Venezuela due to how Nicolás Maduro cuts a rug on Monday's episode of Late Night.

"I don't really suppose the president of america began a warfare over a international chief's dance strikes," the host mentioned. "That’s absurd."

He then lower to Fox Information citing a New York Times report printed Sunday that mentioned Maduro's "common public dancing and different shows of nonchalance in current weeks helped persuade some on the Trump staff that the Venezuelan president was mocking them and making an attempt to name what he believed to be a bluff. So the White Home determined to comply with by way of on its army threats." The newspaper cited two nameless sources.

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"Oh my god," Meyers mentioned. "We invaded Iraq due to WMDs, and now we invaded Venezuela due to WDMs — depraved dance strikes!"

Meyers additionally joked that, when he's "aggravated by somebody's dancing," he merely strikes to a different subway automobile.

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Earlier in his broadcast, Meyers jokingly identified that Maduro really did seem like performing like Trump.

"Dancing at a rally in a purple hat? He stole Trump's transfer," Meyers mentioned. "Though, Maduro did make some adjustments; for instance, he determined to additionally dance along with his decrease physique. Trump was most likely embarrassed that Maduro had higher strikes than him, particularly contemplating Maduro's strikes aren't good. Being worse than Maduro is like being the dancer that completed behind Raygun on the Olympics."

Meyers appeared to get severe additional into his "A Nearer Look" phase and mentioned "the truth is we might merely by no means know why the Trump administration determined to wage warfare on Venezuela."

The present converted to a Good Morning America report that Venezuela "sits on the most important provide of oil reserves on this planet," then to a 2023 Trump speech on C-SPAN.

"After I left, Venezuela was able to collapse," he mentioned. "We’d've taken all of it. We’d've gotten all that oil."

Clips of Trump and his supporters mentioning the oil adopted.

"Rattling it," Meyers mentioned. "I simply want there have been clues."

Late Evening With Seth Meyers airs weeknights at 12:35 p.m. ET on NBC.

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