Though he hosts Late Night and not The Tonight Show, Seth Meyers made like Carnac the Magnificent with a President Trump prediction—and now he wants to make another.
In his first show back since NBC’s late night slate cleared the way for Winter Olympics coverage, Meyers caught up on Trump’s recent doings, including the president’s decision to identify and release government documents “related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena, and unidentified flying objects.”
“And if you’re wondering why he would release that now,” Meyers said, “I’d point you to a clip from this show a few months ago.”
In said clip from July, the Late Night host was discussing Trump’s calculated efforts to distract people from the ever-looming Epstein files when he ventured, “I honestly think we’re one more Epstein story away from Trump announcing that UFOs are real.”
And now here we are.
Coming out of the prescient clip, Meyers acknowledged, “Look, look, look, I do not have the ability to predict the future. But just in case I have magic powers, let me just say that we’re one Epstein story away from Trump saying, ‘I don’t think I’m good at this job. I don’t want to do it anymore. I’m tired all the time. Nobody likes me. And on top of that, my hand is so [f*cked] up, you guys. That’s why I can’t shovel snow.'”
With that new forecast tendered, “now we just sit back and wait,” he added.
Watch Meyers revisit his prognostication prowess above.
Trump’s sudden interest in “these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters” such as UFOs stems from former President Barack Obama saying earlier this month to YouTube journalist Brian Tyler Cohen, when asked about aliens possibly existing, “They’re real, but I haven’t seen them, and they’re not being kept in…. There’s no underground facility, unless there’s this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the president of the United States.”
Obama—after igniting many headlines with that E.T. talk—walked back his pronouncement in the days that followed, saying on Instagram, “Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there. But the distances between solar systems are so great that the chances we’ve been visited by aliens is low, and I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us.”
“Really!” he added.
