Despite former president Donald Trump appearing to encourage his supporters prior to a mob of them violently storming the U.S. Capitol, many Republicans still aren’t on board with his impeachment — and Seth Meyers has had enough of it.
During his “Closer Look” segment on Monday’s edition of Late Night, the host played a montage of senators like Rand Paul and Marco Rubio making every possible imaginable excuse as to why impeachment might be a bad idea.
“Man, they’re throwing everything at the wall,” Meyers says in the clip above. “‘Impeachment will stir up the country’; ‘The election was stolen’; ‘We all bear some responsibility.’ It’s like getting pulled over with a giant plume of marijuana smoke in the car and telling the cop: ‘I think it’s the exhaust pipe, and it is legal in several states, and I only started smoking when you pulled me over because that gave me severe anxiety.'”
Meyers goes on to say that arguing that “impeachment would stir up the country” doesn’t work, because the U.S. is already stirred.
“You guys already did the stirring, you don’t get to pretend everything’s just fine now,” says Meyers, addressing Republicans directly. “Violent seditionists, and white supremacists, and militia members stormed the Capitol building and tried to overthrow democracy. We have to do something about that so it doesn’t happen again. Instead, Republican leaders are talking about Trump’s base the way park rangers talk about bears on a camp ground. ‘Don’t make eye contact. Move away slowly. And if worst comes to worst, let ’em eat your hot dogs! They’re just hot dogs!'”