Seth Meyers has already taken aim at Donald Trump’s declaration that he will be the host of this year’s Kennedy Center Honors, but on Thursday he concentrated on a particular detail: Trump’s assertion that he left out certain artists for being “too woke.”
“I would say I was about 98 percent involved,” Trump stated during a press conference while elaborating on the selection process. “I declined many: They were too woke. I had a few wokesters.”
“I’m sorry, did he mention ‘wokesters’? A wokester seems like a vehicle your great-grandfather operated post-war. ‘I had a 1939 wokester that I drove all the way to the state fair, where I traded it for a funnel cake. Ohhh, I miss my wokester,'” Meyers remarks in the clip above, before turning his attention to right-wing commentators who criticize free speech suppression.
“Shout out to the free speech champions going silent while the president openly acknowledges he’s penalizing artists for their beliefs,” Meyers states. “You keep being yourselves, but only when it aligns with your perspective, you f***ing hypocrites.”