Late Night Dunks on Trump for Planning to Rename an Ocean
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Trish Bendix
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During a rally in South Carolina on Wednesday, President Trump again
floated the idea
of renaming either the Pacific or Atlantic as “Trump Ocean” or “Ocean of the Americas.”
“I mean, you got to think at least one person in the audience is like, 'Hey, yo, I can't afford food. Are you going to get to that, or just more water stuff?'” Ronny Chieng said on Thursday's “Daily Show.”
“But you know what? I will say this: At least Trump didn't spend this rally rating men's bodies.”
— RONNY CHIENG
“OK, what voters is he trying to appeal to? '
[imitating Trump voter]
$10 gas is fine but I'll be dead and buried before I recognize the Atlantic Ocean.'”
— SETH MEYERS
“Once again, 12 days before this election, it's good to see him locked in on the really big issues.”
— JIMMY FALLON
“That's like a burp, a hiccup and a dry heave all in one.”
— JIMMY FALLON, on the strange sound Trump made during Wednesday's rally
“Sounds like Melania on their wedding night.”
— JIMMY FALLON
“Trump's been in so many M.R.I. machines, he now sounds like one.”
— JIMMY FALLON
“I think it's a little weird to mention a fellow Republican and then make the same sound a 5-year-old makes when you dump brussels sprouts on his plate.”
—
SETH MEYERS
“You sounded less like a president and more like a bullfrog.”
— SETH MEYERS
Helen Mirren spoke with Seth Meyers about how to handle the heavy smoking while playing Patricia Highsmith in “A Talent for Murder” on Thursday's “Late Night.”
A Brooklyn bar owner named
Debbie Shields stole the show on a recent episode of “Subway Takes”
by spontaneously bantering with Conan O'Brien.