Cynthia Erivo | Trump Posts Unhinged Rant on Epstein, Spirals Over Affordability as Poll Numbers Tank: A Closer Look
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
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4.5 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Seth takes a closer look at Trump writing a long and incoherent social media rant about the Epstein files.
Then, Cynthia Erivo talks about how close she is with her Wicked co-stars, a fan dressing up as one of her nails for Halloween and how emotional she felt while watching Wicked: For Good.
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| 0:00.0 | President Trump shared a post on truth social calling for hanging Democratic lawmakers, |
| 0:06.7 | but good news, Chuck Schumer has already negotiated him down to lethal injection. |
| 0:15.6 | From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of Late Night with Seth Myers. |
| 0:23.6 | On today's show, Seth talks to actress and singer Cynthia Eribo. |
| 0:26.6 | But first, a closer look. |
| 0:29.6 | You know, we often rib the president for being addled and deranged and possibly having dementia, |
| 0:42.8 | but I have to give him credit where credit is due. |
| 0:45.3 | Last night, he wrote a very concise and thoughtful post on social media about the Epstein files |
| 0:50.1 | that put to rest many of the questions that have been haunting his administration, |
| 0:53.9 | made it clear that he is laser-focused |
| 0:56.0 | on getting to the truth, and I'm just with you. |
| 0:58.0 | Look at how long this is! |
| 1:02.0 | Is there no character limit on truth social? |
| 1:05.0 | I haven't seen something that long and incoherent |
| 1:08.0 | since my mom accidentally had voice to text on while she had a conversation with our neighbor Linda. |
| 1:16.0 | For more on this, it's time for a closer look. |
| 1:22.5 | After months of calling the Epstein Files a hoaxe made up by Democrats, the president would now like you to know that actually the whole release the Epstein Files thing, that was his idea. As everyone knows, I asked Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune to pass this bill in the House and Senate respectively. No, you didn't. Don't try that move where you say, as everyone knows, in hopes that we're all going to say everyone, but I didn't know. Am I out of the loop? |
| 1:50.1 | Everyone knows the opposite was true because we saw it with our own eyes. You can try to get away with saying, as everyone knows, I have a huge penis, but don't do it while you're changing at the gym, at the gym, because people are going to check. |
| 2:04.1 | I think gim is also a fact, though. |
| 2:07.3 | People, I think the teens are calling it gims. |
| 2:10.9 | You don't know, Sal, because you're too old, but it's a lot of old people like Sal call a gym, and teens and me. |
| 2:21.0 | Not that I'm out of the game with teens. |
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