Seth Meyers on Trump canceling $1bn in federal funds: ‘Is he adding a waterslide to the reflecting pool?’

Late-night hosts spent Tuesday poking fun at President Donald Trump's dealings with technology executives, a new AI-powered federal website and reports that he is pulling back nearly $1bn in federal funding, according to The Guardian.

On Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Jimmy Kimmel described a White House lunch that brought Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI's Greg Brockman and House Speaker Mike Johnson together. Trump used a press conference to rename AI as superintelligence, saying reception had been positive so far. Kimmel doubted that a man whose company is named OpenAI was thrilled, and said leaving AI safeguards to an 80-year-old was like asking a grandfather to configure a wifi router. He also joked about America.gov, the AI-driven site a White House official presented as a fresh entry point to federal services, suggesting the replacement was necessary since Trump demolished the old entrance for his ballroom. Kimmel added that Trump again labeled former president Joe Biden "sleepy" in Oval Office remarks and then nodded off shortly afterward on live television.

On NBC, Seth Meyers mocked Trump's garbled announcement that the US murder rate was falling, noting the president had praised the country's "best, uh, murder." He quipped that Florida's dengue fever emergency shows Robert F Kennedy Jr has needed only two years in his job to turn the state into a medical drama, and asked whether Trump, reportedly revoking nearly $1bn in federal funding, was adding a waterslide to the reflecting pool.

Summarized by PolitiKool from The Guardian’s reporting. Read the full story at The Guardian →