A "pile of muscle" and an Ohio attack ad in Seth Meyers' Closer Look
Trump's rally remarks about male candidates' bodies take up much of the segment before JD Vance and Joe Burrow arrive in its Ohio stretch.
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Trump's Brain Glitches at SC Rally, Vance & Ramaswamy Spark Fury Over "Disgusting" Ad: A Closer Look
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- 1:21Trump rambles about the election date and "a thing called November," which gets mock book and album covers.
- 2:29Trump confuses the Nobel Peace Prize with the Pulitzer Prize during a speech.
- 3:49An odd vocal noise while Trump discusses Nikki Haley prompts Meyers' bullfrog comparison.
- 4:40Meyers strings together Trump's rally remarks about male candidates' looks and physiques, including John Husted.
- 10:58The segment turns to backlash over Ramaswamy's ad featuring Amy Acton's estranged mother.
- 12:58JD Vance defends the ad, followed by Joe Burrow's answer about Vance's visit to the Bengals.
Donald Trump's campaign speeches have produced a running theme, and Seth Meyers spends a good part of his latest A Closer Look cataloging it: the president lingering on the looks and physiques of male Republican candidates. "I started examining his body," Trump says in one clip. In another, someone is "like a pile of muscle." Ohio's John Husted is among the candidates on the receiving end. Meyers then sets that praise against Trump's far less flattering words about the appearance of Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton.
The warm-up is quicker. Trump explains the election calendar ("and then you have a thing called November"), which Meyers turns into mock book and album covers. Trump mixes up the Nobel Peace Prize and the Pulitzer, and makes a noise while discussing Nikki Haley that Meyers likens to a bullfrog.
About eleven minutes in, the tone shifts to Ohio's race for governor and the backlash to a Vivek Ramaswamy campaign ad featuring the estranged mother of his opponent, Amy Acton. The segment shows criticism from across the aisle, including Republican governor Mike DeWine, then JD Vance defending the ad: "I have to admit that I'm a little bit disgusted." The detour that follows belongs to Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow, whose answer to a question about Vance's visit is a flat "We did not. We did not."
The segment drew around 1.7 million views in its first day, and comments arrived nearly four times faster than usual, many returning to the Pulitzer mix-up and the Acton ad. The same night's monologue started strongly too, as did a Short built on Vance's "disgusted" line.
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