Seth Meyers on Trump’s ballroom push: ‘How is this their biggest priority?’

Late-night hosts discussed the funding of Trump’s $400m ballroom and King Charles’s light roasts of the president Late-night hosts responded to King Charles’s roasts of Donald Trump during his visit to the US Congress as Republicans try to force taxpayers to pay for Trump’s $400m gilded ballroom. “Donald Trump desperately wants to be a king,” said Seth Meyers on Wednesday evening. “We all know this. He loves pageantry and fanfare and putting his face and name on everything. His official store sells everything from Trump golf balls to Trump beer koozies to Trump pickleball paddles to Trump dog collars, which you could get in three sizes: poodle, doberman and JD Vance. “And now, he’s doing the same thing to official government documents,” the Late Night host added, as Trump is reportedly adding his likeness to newly issued passports, becoming the first sitting president to do so. “It’s the only measure by which Trump is doing better than his predecessors,” Meyers quipped. Naturally, given his affinity for kings, Trump pulled out all the stops for an actual royal, King Charles, during his visit this week to Washington. But “beneath all the pageantry and fan