Trump Said the Word "Weird" 11 Times in 30 Seconds During Fox Town Hall

-Good evening. I'm Seth Meyers. This is "Late Night." We hope you're doing well. And now if you don't mind, we're gonna get to the news. In a Fox News town hall last night, former President Trump said the word "weird" 11 times in about 30 seconds. And good thing he stopped at 11, because 12 times would have summoned JD Vance to the stage. [ Laughter ] Also during last night's town hall, Trump criticized ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos and said that his interview with President Biden was "the softest interview I've ever seen." You're going to say that while you're being interviewed by Sean Hannity? I ask tougher questions when John Oliver is here. [ Laughter ] In the rules for next week's presidential debate that were released today, ABC News said that both candidates will be given a bottle of water. So, if Trump's doing any debate prep, it should be on that. [ Laughter ] [As Trump] I practiced on glass, and now it's a bottle! What do you mean, it's basically the same? [ Laughter ] What am I paying you for? I'm not paying you. I'm just [bleep]. [Normal voice] ABC News also said that during next week's debate, microphones will only be turned on during a candidate's time to speak. Man, that's going to be awfully hard on Trump. I give it about 10 minutes before he starts holding up signs like Wile E. Coyote. [ Laughter ] [ Laughter ] [As Trump] I gotta do signs and water? Oh, this is gonna go great. [Normal voice] According to a new poll, President Biden's approval rating has increased to 48%. And -- Oh, no. No, no, no. [ Laughter ] In a new interview, former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that he plans to attend rallies in battleground states with former President Trump and added, "We're planning to Make America Healthy Again tour." Oh, buddy, who's "we"? [ Laughter ] Unless you're counting the brain worm, that's going to be a solo endeavor. [ Laughter ] Former President Trump said in an interview yesterday that his son Barron has enrolled at New York University and added, "He is a very high-aptitude child, but he's no longer a child. He's just passed into something beyond child-dom." [ Laughter ] I think the word you're looking for is adulthood. And the other word you're looking for is childhood. And the other word you're looking for is Barron. [ Laughter ] A cat that went missing in Texas two years ago was recently found in Springfield, Massachusetts. Apparently it was trying to get reproductive healthcare. [ Laughter and groans ] You know, it's not fun to hear, but it's a good one to read. [ Laughter ] If, like, you got The New York Times out, you're like, "Oh!" [ Chuckling ] But yeah, here -- It wasn't fun for us to hear it here. That's how you get in the Times, though. Gotta say it here to get it in the Times. Letting you guys behind the curtain a little bit today. 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She's back on Broadway starring in "Once Upon a"-- "Once Upon a Mattress," excuse me, which is playing at the Hudson Theatre. Our friend Ana Gasteyer will also be joining us. [ Cheers and applause ] But before we get to all that, Donald Trump fled to his Fox News safe space Wednesday for a meandering town hall with Sean Hannity, where he insisted he's not weird, told the audience they had to vote for him even if they don't like him, and complained about mosquitoes running around his head. For more on this, it's time for "A Closer Look." [ Cheers and applause ] Before Donald Trump came along and weirdified everything, a normal feature of campaign season was just standard retail politics -- shaking hands, knocking on doors, chatting in diners, that kind of thing. Like, in a normal year, this visit by Tim Walz to a local shop in Pennsylvania on Wednesday to buy some treats would have been totally unremarkable. -We're a big fan of pumpkin in this family. -Fan of pumpkin? -We're pumpkin people. -Alright. -Alright, I think that's what we're gonna do. -I think, get that one and that one maybe. -Alright. -I said look at me, I have no problem picking out doughnuts and things. -That's right. Walz joked that he's capable of picking out doughnuts like a normal human being. Why? Well, because of this now infamous debacle at a Georgia doughnut shop involving Trump's running mate and synthetic humanoid JD Vance. Holy [bleep]. [ Laughter ] I had such secondhand embarrassment watching that, that I had to peer through my hands like it was a "Saw" movie. This dude orders doughnuts like his kidnapper's watching him from the car. "I'll take some glazed, some jelly, whatever makes sense." [ Laughter ] What do you mean, whatever makes sense? You're in a doughnut shop. You know what makes sense? Doughnuts. You know what doesn't make sense? Anything else. "Uh, let's see here. So many choices. Um, maybe some spaghetti? Is that... Is that crazy? No spaghetti. Did you run out? Oh, you never had it? Okay. Okay." [ Laughs ] Republicans can't beat the "weird" charges, so now they're trying to turn them back around on Democrats. But in doing so, they're only making things worse. -Women love masculinity, and women do not love Tim Walz, so that should just tell you about how masculine Tim Walz is. The other day you saw him with a vanilla ice cream shake. Had a straw in it. -Oh! -Again, that tells you everything. -Does it? [ Laughter ] I don't understand. Please explain it to me, Jesse -- girl's name. What are you saying? It's manlier to drink a milkshake without a straw, and then walk around all day with a milkshake mustache, having to lick your upper lip like a dog with peanut butter on its nose? I wasn't aware there was a masculine way to drink a milkshake. If there is, then someone should tell Donald Trump. And that -- that's at a Yankees game. You drink a milkshake in the bleachers, there's a good chance someone's gonna scream, "Hey, ump! You suck worse than this guy drinking his milkshake!" [ Laughter ] So, Trump drank a milkshake with a straw, but surely no one who worked at Fox News would drink a milkshake with a straw -- Well, if it isn't Trump and Bill O'Reilly! The Double Milk Twins. This is what Trumpism and the MAGA movement have done to us. They've made the most banal, ordinary campaign traditions incredibly weird. But Trump does not like being called weird. He complained about it again last night on Fox News. -JD is not weird. He's a solid rock. I happen to be a very solid rock. We're not weird. We're other things, perhaps. But we're not weird. And then the fake news media picks it up. That was the word of the day. "Weird, weird, weird," they're all going. But we're not weird guys. We're very solid people who want our country to be great again. -First of all, the opposite of weird isn't "solid." It's "normal." [ Laughter ] That's something you might know if you weren't so -- and again, I wish there was a better word for this -- [bleep] weird. [ Laughter ] Second, just blurting out "we're not weird guys" isn't doing the work you think it is. It wasn't even the question. Nobody said anything about weird. Can you imagine Trump as a contestant on Family Feud? "Top five answers on the board. Name something you bring to a party." Meh-meh-meh! [As Trump] A parakeet. A Ziploc bag full of pills. A rubber dog turd. I'm not weird. [ Laughter ] [Normal voice] Also, I love how, unprompted, he immediately just throws Vance under the bus. "Mr. President, how would you solve inflation?" [As Trump] Well, you know, everyone's saying JD is a very weird man. You know, he's obsessed with childless women and he can't even order doughnuts without creeping everybody out. But, you know, I don't think he's weird. Solid rock! [ Laughter ] [Normal voice] Trump is clearly very triggered, and you can tell when he's not feeling good about himself, because that's when he reaches for his Fox News security blanket. Like a few weeks ago during the Democratic convention, when he was so desperate for the warmth and comfort of the Fox News safe space that he called in for a therapy session and wouldn't get off the phone, forcing the hosts to cut him off. -As far as RFK, I've had a great relationship with him over the years. I respect him, he respects me. I have no idea if he's going to endorse me. I know he's got a news conference. We happen to be in the same state, Arizona. We'll be in the same state, but in quite different parts of the state. But it's possible we will be meeting tomorrow and we'll be discussing it. He said, look, he was treated very unfairly by the Democrats. He would have beaten Joe Biden in a Democrat primary, I have no doubt about it. And they made it absolutely impossible for him. They made it that you have to get 60%, 70% of the vote just to get in. And you know what? -Mr. President. -In the end, the Democrats did the same thing to Joe Biden. They threw Joe Biden out of the party. -And that's why we saw a different night tonight. -Same thing they did to RFK. -Mr. President. Thank you so much for the time. -Thank you very much, sir. -Okay, thank you very much. -Appreciate that live feedback. -Stay right here. Live edition of Gutfeld is coming up. -It [bleep] took both of them working together. [ Laughter ] He's a former president hoping to be the next president. They treated him like a customer on QVC who can't make up their mind. "I love the porcelain doll collection, but I really like the set of rotating service tray-- Can you show me the line of quartz jewelry again? Ooh, what about the back massager? I'd love to see the pleather handbags. Do you still have the facial flex toning kit?" "Ma'am, I think we're going to have to move on to the next caller." "No! Wait! My children don't talk to me anymore!" "Alright, fine. The facial flex toning kit, was it?" "Eh, now I think I might want the toilet bowl nightlight." [ Laughter ] And this isn't the first time this has happened. I can't even count the number of times he called in to Fox & Friends and rambled for an hour while the hosts just sat there, stone-faced like campers trying not to catch the attention of a passing bear. Next time, they should just let it go to voicemail and let the machine cut him off. -I have no idea if he's going to endorse me. I know he's got a news conference. We happen to be in the same state, Ariz-- [ Beep ] -You have reached your limit. Goodbye. [ Laughter ] [ Cheers and applause ] -So, on Wednesday, Trump once again threw himself in the friendly embrace of Fox News for a so-called town hall with Sean Hannity. That's where he insisted he wasn't weird. He also delivered a hopeful message of joy and optimism to all the voters in the audience. -You have no choice. You've got to vote for me. You've got to vote for me. You got to, even... [ Cheers and applause ] Even if you don't like me. No, but even if you don't like me. You can sit there and say, "I can't stand that guy, but there's no way I'm going to vote for her." -[As Trump] You might not like me. You might even hate me. You might despise me so much, the sound of my voice haunts your nightmares and the sight of my grotesque, leathery face fills you with an all-consuming, incandescent rage that burns so deeply within the recesses of your soul that it fills you with, every waking moment, thoughts of bitterness and contempt. And when you see my ghastly countenance on television, you howl in pain. You howl like Ahab grappling to the last with his nemesis, the whale. "From hell's heart, I stab thee," you say. "For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee." But still, you gotta vote for me. That can all be true. You gotta vote for me. [Normal voice] Trump is also still very much obsessed with Joe Biden, and he's clearly depressed about the fact that his political fortunes have changed so wildly since Biden dropped out, although he quickly got sidetracked by another urgent issue facing the nation -- mosquitoes. -We had a good debate, and it was a fair debate, and he was down like 18 or 19 points after the debate. And -- I hate mosquitoes. I'm surprised. I didn't think we had... We don't like those mosquitoes running around. We want nothing to do with them. But... And we want nothing to do with bad politicians that hate our country, too. -Nice save. Good save, my man. [ Laughter ] At least Mike Pence could make it through an entire debate without getting derailed by a fly. I mean, he didn't even know it was there. That fly landed and thought, "Ah, finally -- a dead person." [ Laughter ] And what do you mean, they're running around? "Mosquitoes are running around." He can't even talk about mosquitoes in a normal way. [As Trump] You know, the worst thing about these mosquitoes running around is you can't hear their tiny footsteps." [ Laughter ] "That's why we need to build a wall made of citronella." [ Laughter ] "And we're gonna make the mosquitoes pay for it." [ Laughter ] -What a perfect microcosm of how self-centered Trump's campaign is. Everything relates back to whatever he's feeling in that exact moment. "We don't want bad politicians, just like we don't want these bad mosquitoes buzzing around my head. The country is rumbling for change, just like my stomach is rumbling for a snack. JD, could you run out and get some doughnuts? Try -- Try not to freak anyone out this time, JD." "Ha ha ha! Yes, I shall procure the baked rings of dough. It is... It is interesting that they're called doughnuts, but rarely contain nuts. I find that humorous." "Get the [bleep] out of here, JD. Why is he still here? This guy! I could've picked anybody." A normal presidential candidate would be engaged in the standard retail politics of campaign season, out on the trail, trying to persuade voters. Instead, Trump is hiding in the bubble of right-wing media. He spends all of his time with guys like Hannity, Watters and Vance, otherwise known by their nicknames... -Weird, weird, weird. -This has been "A Closer Look." [ Cheers and applause ]