Kenan Thompson | Trump, Cruz and Noem Repeat Their Insane Lies at CPAC: A Closer Look
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
NBC
4.3 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Seth takes a closer look at former President Donald Trump making his first post-presidency public appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference, where he and his fellow Republicans continued to repeat their deranged lies.
Then, Kenan Thompson goes over his participation in the 2021 Golden Globes with Maya Rudolph, shares his experience working on his new sitcom Kenan and breaks down his SNL impression of LaVar Ball.
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| 0:00.0 | According to a new poll taken at CPAC, 68% of attendees won former President Trump to run |
| 0:07.4 | again in 2024. |
| 0:09.2 | Only 68% at CPAC? |
| 0:11.6 | It's like if you went to a fish concert and weed was polling at 68%. |
| 0:21.7 | From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of Late Night |
| 0:25.8 | with Seth Myers. |
| 0:27.1 | On today's show, Seth Chats with Keenan Thompson, Saturday Night Live and the new NBC comedy |
| 0:31.2 | Keenan. |
| 0:32.2 | But first, a closer look. |
| 0:39.8 | What are President Donald Trump at his first post-presidency public appearance at the conservative |
| 0:44.1 | political action conference this weekend where he and his fellow Republicans continued to repeat |
| 0:48.8 | their deranged lies about everything from COVID to the 2020 election to Mr. Potato Head. |
| 0:53.6 | For more on this, it's time for a closer look. |
| 0:59.7 | Now the growth test symbolism of Trump's return to the political spotlight nearly a year |
| 1:04.0 | after the coronavirus pandemic upended our lives could not have been more stark. |
| 1:08.4 | Remember, it was almost exactly a year ago that Trump as President was saying stuff like |
| 1:13.4 | this. |
| 1:14.4 | It's going to disappear one day. |
| 1:15.4 | It's like a miracle. |
| 1:16.4 | It will disappear. |
| 1:17.4 | And view this the same as the flu. |
| 1:19.4 | We're testing everybody that we need to test and we're finding very little problem. |
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