Meyers: Trump Wanted Me To Apologize On-Air for Making Fun of Him

[DonViejo]

Four years after the ‘Late Night’ host torched Trump at the WHCD, he says Michael Cohen was sent to negotiate Trump’s appearance on his show—with one big demand.

By EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE May 08, 2018

NEW YORK—It wasn’t all porn star hush money: Michael Cohen once tried to negotiate an appearance by Donald Trump on Seth Meyers’ show, for what the “Late Night” host pitched as a fun way of coming together after torching Trump at the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner.

Meyers had invited Trump after running into him at the “Saturday Night Live” 40th anniversary special in February 2015, a few months before the real estate developer’s presidential campaign launched.

Trump, Meyers told me in an interview for POLITICO’s Off Message podcast, started out receptive to appearing on “Late Night,” but the conversation ended once Meyers refused a demand Cohen relayed that was non-negotiable to Trump: He wanted Meyers to go on air and publicly apologize for making fun of Trump at the dinner four years earlier.

Neither a White House spokesman nor Cohen responded when asked what happened.

Back then, Meyers never thought Trump would actually go through with a presidential campaign—“Trump has been saying he will run for president as a Republican, which is surprising, since I just assumed he was running as a joke,” Meyers famously joked at the Correspondents Dinner—and Meyers says he believed that “right up to the moment where [Trump] won.”

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[Capperdan]

1. Are there any right wing comedians ?

Was watching Seth, Stephen, Jimmy, Samantha, Noah, , and wondering this. Do Republicans enjoy humor?

[DonViejo]

3. here you go...

The Funniest Conservative Comedians of All Time
https://www.ranker.com/list/best-conservative-republican-comedians/ranker-comedy

[jcgoldie]

6. That's a pretty barren list as expected...

But why isn't Adam Sandler #1. He's like the only guy there that's remotely funny.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

9. Never realized Norm MacDonald was conservative.

I find his deadpan, clueless execution hilarious. But, he was the writer for the Dennis Miller Show and Rosanne (both the original and current run), so I guess that makes sense.

Ron White I also find hilarious. Never heard him speak much about politics (in the left/right sense), but he's always been a supporter of LGBTQ causes and marijunana legalization, still I figured since he toured with Foxworthy/Engval/Cable Guy he probably was a bit on the conservative side.

[Bucky]

17. Norm MacDonald is fucking hilarious. He's my favorite RW comic

I enjoyed Dennis Miller's shtick on SNL. But as a solo writer & performer, he's not as funny as he thinks he is, which is death for comedy.

[mountain grammy]

23. He really is funny

I loved that sports show he did on Comedy Central.

I gotta give him up if he’s a trumper. May be dumb, but I just do.

[Capperdan]

31. Ron White unfunny

The cocktail swirling should have gone out with Dean Martn. The endless twitching of his mouth is unwatchable.

[Xolodno]

12. Looking at that list....

....I'm not so sure some of them qualify as "Conservative" in today's climate.

[Va Lefty]

18. Never would have Norm McDonald was a conservative

never heard him do anything political

[LisaM]

28. A "conservative" Canadian is pretty much analogous to a moderate American...

I mean, last I heard he was still a Canadian citizen, meaning he hasn't given up the benefits (like health care) that go along with that.

[docgee]

21. Joe Rogan is pretty funny.

But I agree with Xolondo, a lot of them are probably not trump humpers.

[Bengus81]

32. Joe Piscopo a comedian??? That's a stretch..........

Did Sinatra a few times on SNL then pumped iron. Big woop..........

[IrishEyes]

36. That is kind of a sad list

There are only 24 people on the list and one of them is deceased. I watch a ton of comedy and I have only heard of 17 of them. I was not surprised to see 2 women, 22 men and no minorities. I wonder how many are actually trump supporters. I know Victoria Jackson is a total nutcase republican.

[mainstreetonce]

4. Only Roseann Barr

Of the falling ratings

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

10. They have the awesome King of References Denniss Miller. Who is that, you ask?......

.

[Dave Starsky]

11. Dennis Miller's quandary today...

Is that he makes references to things like the Ottoman Empire and Greek mythology, while most of his target audience has never even cracked a book in their lives.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

14. "Chuck Schummer makes Chamberlain look like Charlemagne... bup, bup, bup...Cha-chi!..." **crickets**

[Dave Starsky]

15. Ha ha. Exactly.

[grantcart]

24. Trump audience hears "Chuck e Cheese makes the chamber maid look like champagne."

[Bob Loblaw]

26. Or

"I thought Wilt Chamberlain was dead."

[mainstreetonce]

2. I wish I could contribute to a campaign fund to buy Seth Meyers time

Prime time responses to Trump every time Trump's rallies get coverage.
Instead of political commercials, prime time minutes of
Meyers doing his Trump material.

I adore Seth Meyers.

[procon]

5. Trump held a petty grudge against Meyers for making fun of him "at the dinner four years earlier."

And that was reportedly back in 2015, so now he's carried that grudge for 8 years over a fairly common comedy routine. How sick is that? It's not normal to be so thinskined, to take offence at every inconsequential little riff as if it was a personal slight.

[IluvPitties]

7. Trump is a child.

[Dave Starsky]

13. Trump is a thin-skinned, whiny titty baby.

He is the whiniest, most incessant crybaby I've ever seen over the age of three. It's like he was raised by robin hatchlings.

[kedrys]

33. TheFerret said it best in one of his posts

Paraphrasing slightly: Trump is still trying to get Mattis to let him call a drone strike on the kid who got more gold stars in second grade.

Sick is the understatement of the century.

[Orsino]

8. Trump has an apology fetish.

Given how often he demands this from strangers, you know he insists that staff lick his shoes at every imagined slight.

[mikeysnot]

16. trump needs to apologize

before ANY comedian does... oh and resign. And take pence with you....

[SWBTATTReg]

19. No no no no no no NO!!! If I were Seth M. I would never back down and apologize ...

Seth should instead hit RUMP 10 times harder!! In RUMP's own words...

[TeamPooka]

20. Life is so unfair for Donald Trump, according to Donald Trump.

[Scurrilous]

22. I cannot wait for this POS to get his.

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Generations will celebrate his coming demise as a national holiday.

[grantcart]

25. It will become the fundamental reference point in American arts

There will be Trump plays and operas for hundreds of years.

Even though they will quote him verbatim no one will believe that he could have said it.

[Scurrilous]

27. Future Shakespeare thanks the deplorables.

[treestar]

29. Geez does anyone else every act that way

about a roast? What a little baby!

[grantcart]

30. No. In fact finding the absolute worst person to become President of the US was a very thorough

process that literally involved tens of thousands of volunteers, hundreds of millions of dollars, extensive media coverage and the full time involvement of the ghost of Richard Nixon.

It is agreed, this guy is in a class by himself.

[Nitram]

34. Did the mean man hurt po' wittle Donnie's feelings?

What a snowflake!

[Mc Mike]

35. His tender fee fees were hurt.

Still are.

He can't remember what he did to screw someone in business, yesterday, or which country he wants to go to war with today, but he'll never forget a grudge.

He's the absolute lowest kind of person, in every possible way. Not super human, super subhuman.

[Grins]

37. His shameless narcissism is all he has.

Four years later, after JOKES were made about him, which he should have just laughed off. Shameless narcissism is all he has.