Seth Meyers’ Comments About Owing Trump an ‘Apology’ Resurface After the President Threatened to Cancel His ‘Horrible’ Show Following Jimmy Kimmel’s Suspension

After Jimmy Kimmel Live!‘s suspension following the host’s comments on Charlie Kirk, President Donald Trump is targeting other late-night hosts and calling for their cancellation, specifically Late Night With Seth Meyers.

Trump took to his social media app Truth Social to react to the news of Kimmel’s show being yanked off air. He wrote, “Great News for America: The ratings challenged Jimmy Kimmel Show is CANCELLED. Congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done.”

“Kimmel has ZERO talent, and worse ratings than even Colbert, if that’s possible,” Trump wrote. “That leaves Jimmy and Seth, two total losers, on Fake News NBC. Their ratings are also horrible. Do it NBC!!!”

NBC renewed Late Night with Seth Meyers back in May 2024 in a contract extended through 2028. Meyers usually criticizes Trump and his administration during the regular segment on the show called Closer Look. On the day when Kimmel made his remarks about Charlie Kirk, Meyers pointed out the administration’s hypocrisy about foreign policy. “Trump and the GOP spent years whining that Democrats were supposedly leading from behind, and have now declared that America will be setting the world’s agenda,” the former Weekend Update anchor explained. “No more waiting for other countries to act – America acts first and other countries follow us. You got that, world?”

On Aug. 15, 2024, Meyers blasted the president on the show for being an “idiot” after his interview with then-ally Elon Musk. “I owe Trump an apology. Meyers said on his show. “I used to think he was an Olympic-level idiot, but I was wrong.”

“Only a genius chess master Jedi wizard would do a conference call on a dying app with a South African vampire, and after a 40-minute technical delay, brag about how awesome it is to fire people during a campaign where the number one issue is jobs,” he continued.

Back in January 2025, President Trump went on a tirade against Meyers on Truth Social, “How bad is Seth Meyers on NBC, a ‘network’ run by a truly bad group of people – Remember, they also run MSDNC,” he wrote. “I got stuck watching Marble Mouth Meyers the other night, the first time in months, and every time I watch this moron I feel an obligation to say how dumb and untalented he is, merely a slot filler for the Scum that runs Comcast.”

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The president continued: “These guys should be paying a lot of money for the right to give these ‘in kind’ contributions to the Radical Left Democrat Party. These are not shows or entertainment, they are simply political hits, 100% of the time, to me and the Republican Party. Comcast should pay a BIG price for this!”

On the Sept. 15 episode after the assassination of Kirk, Kimmel said in his monologue, “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”

While the show isn’t cancelled, Jimmy Kimmel Live! will be will be pre-empted indefinitely. FCC chair Brendan Carr was asked whether the FCC would like NBC to cancel Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers, Carr replied: “If there’s local TV stations that don’t think running that programming serves the public interest, then they have every right under the law… to preempt it.”