David Harbour | Trump & MAGA Clash Over Whether Iran War Is a "War," Trump Says Wars Can Last Forever: A Closer Look
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
NBC
4.3 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Seth takes a closer look at Republicans in Congress who said Trump would end foreign wars having a new strategy for defending the Iran war: claiming it’s not actually a war, even though Trump himself calls it a war.
Then, David Harbour talks about tackling middle age with a prosthetic belly in his new show DTF St. Louis and reveals he really wanted to be friends with co-star Jason Bateman.
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| 0:00.0 | President Trump reposted a picture yesterday |
| 0:05.0 | of himself wearing sunglasses with a caption, |
| 0:08.0 | quote, I stand with Trump, the most badass president of all time. |
| 0:11.0 | I don't know. When you're like 30, you look badass in sunglasses. |
| 0:16.0 | When you're 79, people just try to help you cross the street |
| 0:27.9 | From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City Please enjoy this podcast edition of Late Night with Seth Myers |
| 0:31.3 | On today's show Seth talks to actor David Harbor |
| 0:34.2 | But first, a closer look |
| 0:36.4 | A Closer Look actor David Harbour. But first, a closer look. |
| 0:48.5 | Republicans in Congress who said Trump would end foreign wars have a new strategy for defending the Iran War, claiming it's not actually a war, even though Trump himself calls it a war. |
| 0:53.7 | For more on this, it's time for a war, even though Trump himself calls it a war. For more on this, |
| 0:54.4 | it's time for a closer look. |
| 0:59.7 | As you all know, before Trump took office, our military was run by liberal, bleeding hard |
| 1:04.5 | tofu-eating wokesters. They forced our troops to wear rainbow-colored uniforms and |
| 1:09.4 | swap their weapons for books on critical race theory. |
| 1:12.6 | But those days are over because President Kickass Now and Forget Names Later is in charge, |
| 1:18.6 | along with his Secretary of War, Pete Drain the Kegseth, |
| 1:22.6 | aka the bad guy from every Steven Sall movie, and they have one. |
| 1:28.3 | They have one mission, bringing lethality and war fighting |
| 1:32.3 | back to the U.S. a mother-a. |
| 1:34.3 | President Trump signed an executive order |
| 1:36.3 | to rebrand the Defense Department as the Department of War. |
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