Seth Meyers has a blunt response to Trump refusing to honor ‘woke’ artists

Seth Meyers has already laid in to Donald Trump’s announcement that he’ll be hosting this year’s Kennedy Center Honors, but on Thursday he took aim at one specific part: Trump claiming that he filtered some artists out on the basis that they were “too woke”.

“I would say I was about 98 percent involved,” Trump said at a press conference, discussing the selection process. “I turned down plenty: They were too woke. I had a couple of wokesters.”

“I’m sorry, did he say ‘wokesters’? A wokester sounds like a car your great-grandfather drove after the war. ‘I had a 1939 wokester that I drove all the way to the state fair, where I sold it for a funnel cake. Ohhh, I miss my wokester,'” says Meyers in the clip above, before turning his attention to right-wing commentators who like to complain about free speech censorship.

“Shout out to the free speech warriors going radio silent while the president just fully admits he’s punishing artists for their politics,’ Meyers says. “You keep doing you, but only when it fits your worldview, you f***ing hypocrites.”