On Late Night, Seth Meyers riffs on Trump's renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which Meyers notes changed its color but not its footprint. The bit plays on a chart Trump showed off on Wednesday comparing the pool's length to some of the world's tallest skyscrapers, including the Empire State Building, World Trade Center and Sears Tower, and Meyers' point that the pool isn't exactly vertical.
The receipt
- Who
- Seth Meyers
- Where
- monologue - Late Night with Seth Meyers
- Original footage
- Late Night with Seth Meyers · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 54 seconds, unedited within the cut
Read the transcript
As you may know, he's been renovating the Lincoln reflecting pool to change the color. That's it. Nothing he did affected the footprint of the pool. But on Wednesday, he showed off a chart he had made that compared the size of the pool to various skyscrapers for some reason. They just had this done. You're getting the first glimpse, but that's your size compared. So those are compared to... Those are among the tallest buildings in the world, including the Empire State Building, World Trade Center, Sears Tower, Chicago. So if you lay it on its side, you'd take two or three of them to fill it in. I mean, you know what? You got to hand it to them. I mean, that is really impressive. Or it would be if the reflecting pool was This is a f***ing vertical!
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.