A Closer Look Back: Trump Demands A Ballroom While Americans Suffer, Spirit Collapses and RFK Jr Counts Sperm
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
NBC
4.3 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
A Closer Look Supervising Writer/Producer Sal Gentile and Supervising Producer Emily Erotas discuss Trump's new demand that taxpayers fund his golden ballroom even as inflation spikes and the economy struggles due to the Iran war. They also discuss Mr. Met's visit to the Late Night studio and Seth's RFK Jr impression.
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| 0:00.0 | Donald Trump is renewing his push for a White House ballroom after yesterday shooting at the White House correspondent's dinner. |
| 0:13.8 | Posting on social media, quote, this event would never have happened with the militarily top secret ballroom currently under construction at the White House. |
| 0:22.6 | As you know, we're building a big, beautiful, very, very secure ballroom in every way with massive bulletproof glass. |
| 0:29.6 | It's almost four inches thick. It's pretty amazing stuff. |
| 0:32.6 | It's actually a larger room and it's much more secure. It's drone proof, it's bulletproof glass. |
| 0:39.7 | We need the ballroom. |
| 0:40.7 | And that ballroom is being built on the safest piece of property in this country, |
| 0:44.0 | probably one of the safest pieces of land in the world. |
| 0:47.7 | A lot of senators and representatives are now saying, |
| 0:50.4 | this is why we need to get the ballroom back up and running. |
| 0:52.9 | We got to build that ballroom as soon as possible. |
| 0:54.9 | The ballroom will be a solution for this. |
| 0:58.0 | Being more prepared means having a facility like this ballroom. |
| 1:01.9 | This is one of the reasons why the president has been pushing to build this ballroom at the White House. |
| 1:07.0 | The president is right about this, having the ballroom on the White House grounds. |
| 1:11.8 | A ballroom is imperative. |
| 1:15.4 | Emily, this is very exciting. |
| 1:17.1 | The White House has announced an initiative where five lucky Americans will each be granted a lucky golden ticket to attend the new White House ballroom and get to see all the secret military stuff in the basement below. |
| 1:31.6 | It's the most secure facility in the world. |
| 1:34.2 | And I know you've been telling me that you are very thankful that your taxpayer dollars are going toward that as opposed to health care. |
| 1:40.5 | Absolutely. |
| 1:41.2 | You've been talking so much about it. |
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