Seth Meyers on Republicans claiming rigged elections: ‘You’re the ones undermining voter integrity’

By Guardian staff • June 11, 2026 • Culture

Late-night hosts discussed Trump getting booed at a Knicks game and Republican attempts to undermine US elections

Late-night hosts spoke about Donald Trump’s delusions over his reception this week at a Knicks game and how Republicans are continuing to spread false claims about elections. Seth Meyers On Late Night, Seth Meyers spoke about how Trump “lives in his own world” and claims he is a genius while “everyone else is dumb”. The host said the president “creates and inhabits his own reality with his own rules”, including how “numbers work very differently” which was followed by a montage of him claiming drug prices would fall by as much as 1,400%. Meyers reminded viewers that “math is math” and “numbers are not subjective” yet Trump is “surrounded by boot-licking sycophants” including RFK Jr who backed up the president’s grasp on numbers. “You tried to eat roadkill,” Meyers said in reference to the US health secretary. This week also saw Trump get “loudly booed” when attending a Knicks game in New York, yet he has claimed there were cheers. “You’re not just wrong, you’re wrong by 600%,” Meyers said before adding that it “was very clear and distinct booing”. While Trump claims to be a big fan, he was shown to be falling asleep at the game, so Meyers joked that the president was “so nervous he couldn’t even open his eyes”. This week has also seen more Republicans targeting mail-in voting and claiming that elections are being rigged in California as their candidates are not faring well. Yet Meyers said many Californians were forced to vote this way as “gas is so fucking expensive” as a result of Trump’s war on Iran. Those around him continue to “affirm his delusions”, and despite their claims, Meyers said to them “you’re the ones undermining voter integrity” and asked them to “give us a single piece of evidence”. Jimmy Kimmel On Jimmy Kimmel Live! the host said Trump sat the next Knicks game out as he “decided to stay home and get booed by his wife instead”. This week is his 80th birthday, and he is using it to celebrate with a big party – he is also offering a special commemorative coin with his head on it for $11,999. The small print claims it is not political and also cannot be used as legal tender. “It takes a special kind of conman to sell your supporters money they can’t spend any place,” he said. He moved on to JD Vance, who “does not have a coin but he does have a new chicken coop” which was installed at his house. “Trump heard there were a bunch of young chicks at JD’s house and went over there for the first time,” Kimmel quipped. He said that the cycle will see “JD eat the eggs, Trump will eat the chickens and RFK Jr will eat the penises off the raccoons that try to eat the chickens.” Trump also made some bizarre claims this week about the crowd size he received compared with Martin Luther King Jr as he is “genuinely jealous of a man who was assassinated”. Controversy has continued to swirl around Graham Platner, the Democratic candidate for US Senate in Maine, who has been accused of getting a Nazi tattoo and cheating on partners. “If Democrats cannot get him into the Senate, word is Republicans are planning to nominate him for president in 2028,” he said. This week also saw a bombshell New York Times feature on Trump and Jeffrey Epstein which took information from a new book alleging that there was a “gathering of all the president’s minions” in the situation room to discuss the fallout from the files. Trump wasn’t there as “he was busy in the constipation room”. The files alleged that Trump has an “aggressive nipple fetish” and Vance was apparently arguing that he had been accused of worse. “A nipple won’t make a ripple with this guy,” Kimmel joked.

Source: The Guardian