Author Ocean Vuong | Trump Almost Started a War with Iran: A Closer Look
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
NBC
4.3 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Seth takes a closer look at President Trump creating a bunch of problems and then turning around and pretending he “solved” those problems.
Then, Ocean Vuong talks about writing his book in his closet, basing his fictional characters on his own experience and his mother’s response to his novel.
He also takes a few more questions backstage at Studio 8G.
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| 0:00.0 | Fail to Alabama Senate candidate Judge Roy Moore has announced he will run again in 2020. |
| 0:06.7 | He also has to announce if he moves into your neighborhood. |
| 0:12.5 | From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of Late Night |
| 0:19.6 | with Seth Meyers. |
| 0:20.6 | Today, you'll hear a session of view with writer Ocean Vaughn, who sticks around for a few |
| 0:24.0 | more questions backstage exclusively for this podcast. |
| 0:27.1 | First, a closer look. |
| 0:34.1 | President Trump has spent the last week creating crises, and then pretending he solved those crises. |
| 0:38.9 | For more on this, it's time for a closer look. |
| 0:46.0 | Well, it's been another roller coaster a few days with our split personality president |
| 0:50.0 | creating a bunch of problems, and then turning around and claiming he solved those problems. |
| 0:54.2 | Every day with this guy is like fight club. |
| 0:56.2 | One of these days, we're going to find him in the parking lot outside the White House beating the crap out of himself. |
| 1:01.9 | One day he's threatening war with Iran. The next day he's claiming he stopped a war with Iran. |
| 1:05.8 | One day he's threatening to deport millions and rip apart migrant families. |
| 1:08.9 | The next day he's saying he delayed the deportations. |
| 1:11.2 | It's almost like he saw the polls and instead of running against the Democrats in 2020, |
| 1:15.4 | decided to run against himself. |
| 1:17.4 | Vote for me. I'm the only one who can stop Donald Trump. |
| 1:22.3 | Trump swings wildly from one position to the next because he has no moral compass or a strategic vision, |
| 1:28.3 | and that combination of ignorance and impulsiveness has been on full display |
| 1:32.1 | during his administration's March toward war with Iran. |
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