President-elect Donald Trump rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange after being named Time’s person of the year on Thursday, and NBC’s Late Night host Seth Meyers was not happy about it. Meyers claimed the whole thing proved Trump’s attempts to appeal to working people are fraudulent and claimed it was “frustrating” that voters fell for it.
During his Closer Look segment, Meyers declared, “Trump is Time magazine's person of the year, and he rang the opening bell on the New York Stock Exchange this morning. Look how happy he is. He looks like a Make-a-Wish kid who faked being sick until he got what he wanted. Before he was elected, he toured the country telling grandpas in folding chairs he was just like them, and as soon as he wins, he's on a [bleep] marble balcony on Wall Street rocking a bell like he just ate a 72-ounce steak in under an hour.”
Meyers then digressed to talk about Time and Trump’s obsession with it, including a clip of CNN This Morning musing that Trump desires to surpass Richard Nixon for most Time covers. Getting back on track, Meyers lamented, “But back to Trump ringing the opening bell at the stock exchange. This guy has pretended for nearly a decade to be a populist champion of the working class. And now he's on literal Wall Street getting pats on the back from the richest people in the country. I mean, the only way Trump's hypocrisy could be any more on the nose is if he started doing campaign events with actual fat cats.”
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