Seth Meyers Lampoons Trump’s ‘High IQ’ Claim

Seth Meyers turned President Trump’s boast about being a “high IQ person” against him on Monday night, according to TheWrap.

Meyers opened his NBC monologue by acknowledging that some audience members have called Trump a “demented imbecile with oatmeal for brains.” He then quipped that if Trump ally Kash Patel wants their name, he’d trade it for immunity—but only if the prison is white collar and lasts a week, because he could use a break from his kids.

The host played a clip of Trump telling a campaign rally that he has “among the highest IQs anywhere in the world.” To challenge that, Meyers read aloud Trump’s response to Time magazine when asked if he trusts OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Trump rambled about how everyone is smart and brought up his uncle who taught at MIT.

“Just once, I would love someone to ask a simple follow up to this uncle story,” Meyers said. “Like, ‘What class did he teach?’ Or, ‘What does MIT stand for?’ Or, ‘Spell Massachusetts.’”

Meyers then showed another clip of Trump calling Democrats the “Dumbocrats” and marveling that it took him nine years to come up with that. Trump added that most people don’t know “dumb” has a B in it.

“Oh, yeah. He definitely can’t spell Massachusetts,” Meyers remarked. He pointed out that the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest skyscraper, was built in six years—faster than it took Trump to figure out that “dumb” has a B.

Meyers concluded: “It took less time to build the tallest skyscraper in the world than it took you to figure out that the word ‘dumb’ has a ‘B’ in it.”

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