David Letterman is weighing in on Donald Trump’s most recent attack on Seth Meyers—and the Late Night creator is firmly in Meyers’ corner.
In a new video released on his YouTube channel (below), Letterman opened by sending “a shout out to our friend Seth Meyers,” noting with amusement that “the president of the United States now wants to fire Seth Meyers.”
“And I thought, this is just delightful,” Letterman said. “How do you think that’s going to go? Anyway, I’ve never been more proud of Seth Meyers. That’s our old show, as a matter of fact. He does a magical job.”
Letterman’s remarks came after Trump blasted Meyers on Truth Social last week, calling the Late Night host talentless, accusing him of “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” and urging NBC to “fire him immediately.” As LateNighter has reported, the outburst appeared to stem from a repeat broadcast of a Late Night episode that had already provoked Trump weeks earlier — one in which Meyers joked about Trump’s fixation on aircraft-carrier catapults.
Meyers responded to Trump’s renewed attack on Nov. 18, joking that he was thrilled to hear Newsmax anchors say his name “on TV before midnight,” and spending several minutes unpacking Trump’s Victorian-novel phrasing (“He was viewed last night in an uncontrollable rage”).
Letterman, for his part, saved his sharpest words for Trump himself. Later in the video, he described the president as “just a wonder of idiocy,” adding: “It knows no bounds. It’s never ending. He’s our current… he’s our dictator. He’s not going anywhere.”
With nearly four decades of late-night history between them, Meyers and Letterman have largely operated in separate eras. Letterman created NBC’s Late Night franchise in 1982 and hosted the show for 11 years before departing for CBS, where he remained a late-night fixture for more than two decades. Meyers is only the third host to inherit the franchise, following Conan O’Brien and Jimmy Fallon.
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