Seth Myers is still feeling the heat from Donald Trump, who has called for the NBC host to be fired, but at least he has a late-night legend in his corner. David Letterman, in an appearance on The Barbara Gaines Podcast (Gaines being a longtime producer of The David Letterman Show), gave his support to his successor as the president and FCC chairman Brendan Carr have applied pressure on the network to remove Myers. Letterman has previously criticized Trump for trying to punish hosts for free speech and supported Jimmy Kimmel when he was briefly suspended from ABC.
David Letterman calls Trump “our dictator”
“By the way, a shout out here now to our friend Seth Myers,” Letterman said on the podcast on Tuesday, November 25. “The president of the United States now wants to fire Meyers.”
“And I thought, ‘This is just delightful. How do you think that’s going to go?’” he said, referring to Kimmel’s reinstatement on ABC after just a week.
Still, after saying that he’s “never been more proud” of Myers, he gave him a quick warning about what might happen. “But just remember, Seth, things happen. You know what I’m saying?”
After Gaines made a passing reference to the president’s infamous “piggy” insult, Letterman laughed and said, “Oh man, just a wonder of idiocy. It’s just fantastic, it know no bounds. It’s never-ending, he’s our current — he’s our dictator. He’s not going anywhere.”
Trump called for Myers to be fired “immediately” in a social media post on November 15 after the late-night host spoke about Trump being in the Epstein files. The president said that the host had “no talent” and had “an incurable case of Trump Derangement Syndrome” while mocking his show as a “Ratings DISASTER.” Brendan Carr promptly reposted the president’s words on X (formerly Twitter), making the threat more credible.
Myers responded to the president’s post by calling it a “thought piece of fan mail.”
