The Late Night host began his Inauguration Eve "A Closer Look" segment on the end of the Trump presidency by pointing to the president's “meaningless, lie-filled farewell message” on Tuesday. “F*ck off, you don’t get to do that,” he said, according to The Daily Beast. “You don’t want to do any of the hard parts of leaving like gracefully admitting you lost and attending your successor’s inauguration, but you want us to watch your lie-filled 20-minute farewell speech, which I am certain you are reading for the first time?” Meyers then looked back at the first "incredibly stupid lie" of the Trump presidency: the size of his inauguration crowd. That lie, he said, paved the way to the "poisonous" lies about coronavirus and the 2020 election. “It’s not just that Trump inhabits an unhinged fantasy world, which he does,” he said, “or that he and his aides lie as easily as they breathe, which they do, it’s that the entire federal bureaucracy was dragged into defending a narcissistic president’s delusion. And anyone who refused to support the lie was punished.” Closing out his segment, Meyers warned that while the Trump presidency is just about finally over, “the corruption, the authoritarianism and the moral rot Trump exposed within the GOP and our system will remain and we can’t just let it go. We’ve got to fix it. And we have to hold accountable the people responsible for it, from the top all the way down. Otherwise, this four-year-long nightmare we’ve all lived through could very well happen again.”
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