A Closer Look: President Trump's First Days / Ta-Nehisi Coates Interview

Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast

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🗓️ 25 January 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Seth takes a closer look at President Trump's first few days in office, which featured lying about crowd sizes against a backdrop of record-breaking protest occurring all over the world. Then, acclaimed writer Ta-Nehisi Coates stops by Studio 8G to talk to Seth about his remarkable cover story in The Atlantic, "My President Was Black," which documented President Obama's time in office. He gave his initial reactions to Trump's election, and also discussed the Blank Panther comic book he penned. LATE NIGHT ON SOCIAL Subscribe to Late Night on YouTube: youtube.com/LateNightSeth Follow Late Night on Twitter: twitter.com/LateNightSeth Like Late Night on Facebook: www.facebook.com/LateNightSeth Find Late Night on Snapchat: snapchat.com/add/LateNightSeth Get more Late Night with Seth Meyers: www.nbc.com/late-night-with-seth-meyers/ Watch Late Night with Seth Meyers Weeknights 12:35/11:35c on NBC. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:42.9	From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of Late Night
0:48.0	with Seth Meyers, airing weeknights at 12.35, 11.35 Central on NBC right after the Tonight Show.
0:59.2	This weekend could not have provided a more stark contrast to begin the Trump era.
1:03.2	On the one hand, we saw what may have been the largest organized protest in US history.
1:08.0	And on the other hand, we had the new Trump administration openly lying on its first full day
1:12.7	in office for more in this. It's time for a closer look.
1:20.0	The start of the Trump era was greeted on Saturday by a massive nationwide show of resistance.
1:24.9	Between three and four million people marched and what analysts believe may well be the largest
1:29.4	protest in US history. The first day of Donald Trump's presidency brought more than 600 massive
1:35.2	anti-Trump protests around America and the world, including in Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles,
1:42.1	and overseas in London, Berlin, even down in Sydney, Australia.
1:46.3	Hundreds of women's marches sweep the nation, including here in Wichita.
1:50.0	An encouraged thousands turned up yesterday. More than 5,000 people at the sister march in
1:55.8	downtown Birmingham. Demonstrators also standing in solidarity as far as Antarctica.
2:01.8	Imagine being so dislike that people are willing to go outside and protest you in Antarctica.
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