Rachel Maddow | The End of the Trump Presidency: A Closer Look
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
NBC
4.3 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Seth takes a closer look at Donald Trump spending his last full day as president of the United States stewing in private, mulling pardons for well-connected allies and releasing a meaningless, lie-filled farewell message.
Then, Rachel Maddow explains how Donald Trump’s presidency affected her, predicts how the events of January 6 may shake up Joe Biden’s presidency and goes over how the COVID-19 pandemic will impact his inauguration.
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| 0:00.0 | With less than two days left in office, President Trump yesterday issued several executive orders |
| 0:06.9 | and you can tell he's getting desperate because in one of them he just wished for infinite |
| 0:11.8 | wishes. |
| 0:17.6 | From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of Late Night |
| 0:21.8 | with Seth Meyers. |
| 0:23.3 | And today's show, Seth Chats with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. |
| 0:34.9 | Today, with Donald Trump's last full day, as President of the United States and he spent |
| 0:41.2 | it stewing in private mulling pardons for well-connected allies and releasing a meaningless |
| 0:45.5 | lie-filled farewell message for more on this, it's time for a closer look. |
| 0:53.4 | Today, Trump released a pre-taped farewell message filled as usual with the soaring |
| 0:57.3 | oratory he's known for. |
| 0:58.8 | My fellow, um... |
| 0:59.8 | Off, you don't get to do that. |
| 1:01.6 | You don't want to do any of the hard parts of leaving, like gracefully admitting you lost |
| 1:04.6 | and attending your successors inauguration, but you want us to watch your lie-filled 20-minute |
| 1:08.5 | farewell speech, which I am certain you're reading for the first time, like a tourist, |
| 1:13.4 | reading a menu and a foreign language. |
| 1:15.6 | I'll have that... |
| 1:16.6 | Oh boy. |
| 1:17.6 | Oh, how do you say this? |
| 1:19.2 | Oh, man. |
| 1:20.6 | Oh, hamburger? |
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