Kenan Thompson | Trump Flips Off Auto Worker Who Called Him a "Pedophile Protector," Pushes Whole Milk: A Closer Look
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
NBC
4.3 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Seth takes a closer look at Trump threatening to use a law from 1792 to send the military into an American city, risking war with Europe over his fixation on Greenland and sending oil revenue from Venezuela to a bank account in Qatar.
Then, Kenan Thompson talks about releasing his children's book "Unfunny Bunny" and ringing in his 23rd year as a cast member on "Saturday Night Live" before bringing back his author alter ego, Pernice Lafonk, to read an excerpt from his latest book, "The Legacy of Booty."
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| 0:00.0 | In Air Canada flight was recently forced to return to the Toronto airport after taxiing |
| 0:06.6 | because a crew member was still in the cargo hold. |
| 0:09.1 | While over its spirit, that's business class. |
| 0:15.6 | From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of Late Night with Seth Myers. |
| 0:24.0 | On today's show, Seth chats with actor and comedian Kenan Thompson. |
| 0:27.5 | But first, a closer look. |
| 0:35.5 | The president of the United States cursed out a union auto worker in Michigan after that worker accused the president of protecting pedophiles by refusing to release the Epstein files as required by law. |
| 0:47.1 | And here's a fun fact. The thing I just told you? Not that big of a story. |
| 0:51.3 | You know why? Because the president's also threatening to use the law from 1792 to send the military into an American city. He's risking war with Europe over his fixation on Greenland. He's sending oil revenue from Venezuela to a bank account in Qatar. He's dismantling the independence of the Federal Reserve. He's overseeing a dramatic rise in the price of groceries. He is once again struggling to stay awake |
| 1:12.6 | during a televised meeting in the most famous office |
| 1:15.6 | in the world surrounded by at least a dozen people |
| 1:18.6 | in the middle of the day. |
| 1:20.6 | How do you fall asleep surrounded by that many people |
| 1:23.6 | in broad daylight? |
| 1:24.6 | That's like if Joy Behar fell asleep during the |
| 1:27.5 | view. I can't even fall asleep at night when it's quiet in my own bed. Even if there's a |
| 1:32.9 | jackhammer outside, that's still more soothing than the voice of RFK Jr. When you go through |
| 1:39.6 | it all, yelling to you to an auto worker was the quaintest thing he did this week. |
| 1:44.5 | What a time we live in. |
| 1:46.6 | For more on this, it's time for a closer look. |
| 1:53.2 | It's worth remembering, amid everything that's happening right now, |
| 1:55.9 | that Donald Trump is still very unpopular. |
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