Seth Meyers baffled by bizarre moment of Trump ‘isolation’ at Mar-A-Lago

Donald Trump is said to have isolated himself at his Florida club in the weeks since he announced his 2024 presidential candidacy – and Seth Meyers calls the moment ‘crazy’.

“The GOP [midterm] The performance was so poor that even Donald Trump, a man who craves the spotlight more than food and water – or I guess food and Diet Coke – was essentially forced into solitary confinement,” he said. said the “Late Night” host on Monday.

According to the Washington Post, the former president rarely left his Mar-a-Lago estate residence in three weeks. Since announcing his intention to run for the White House again, Trump has faced a series of political blows, including backlash at a dinner date with white supremacist Nick Fuentes and criticism prominent Republicans on a social media post in which he suggested “termination.” of the Constitution.

And amid Republicans’ poor performance in the midterm elections, another Trump-backed candidate, Herschel Walker, lost last week in the Georgia Senate runoff to Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock.

“I want to re-emphasize: Trump’s isolation has begun after he announced he was running for president again,” Meyers said. “It’s one thing to say, ‘I just lost my re-election bid; I’m going to take some time for myself and then isolate myself. But it’s crazy to do it after announcing that you’re running for the most powerful office in the world.

“He probably stays in bed all day with noise-canceling headphones, listening to his old speeches,” he added, playing a clip from a Trump speech about one of his oldest enemies.

Watch below on “Late Night.”