Seth Meyers hits back at Trump for demanding the “Late Night ”host be fired

Seth Meyers mocked Donald Trump on Monday, his first night behind the desk at Late Night since the president went off on him on social media. "NBC’s Seth Meyers is suffering from an incurable case of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS)," Trump posted Saturday. "He was viewed last night in an uncontrollable rage, likely due to the fact that his 'show' is a Ratings DISASTER. Aside from everything else, Meyers has no talent, and NBC should fire him, IMMEDIATELY!" "You guys!" Meyers said sarcastically. "They said my name on TV! It's not often. It's not often you hear the name Seth Meyers on TV before midnight." Then he got serious. Kind of. “As I’ve said before, I prefer to handle these situations the way you handle an angry driver who honks and flips you off on the highway. You just ignore them, you know, unless you're in New Jersey. Then, technically, that's a marriage proposal." Meyers said he was "aware that being attacked this weekend by the president doesn’t make me special in any shape or form." Then he named nine other people he said were on the president’s "s--- list.” Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with our EW Dispatch newsletter. He wanted to make sure everyone understood that he didn't mind if Trump didn't like his NBC series. Really. “I take no issue with the president voicing his displeasure with my show. That is his right and, on a lot of nights, he’s got a point," Meyers deadpanned. "But I would like to unpack this sentence from Trump’s post about me." He then took issue with the way Trump wrote about him in the sentence, "He was viewed last night in an uncontrollable rage...” "Not to repeat something I'm sure you’ve heard many times over the years from your English teachers," Meyers said. "But what's with the passive voice, my man?” He gave examples of how that sentence could be misunderstood because of the way it's constructed. Is Trump in a rage while watching? "Sounds like something a dowager countess says in a Victorian murder mystery while she's staring out the drawing room windows," Meyers joked. "When you accuse me of Trump Derangement Syndrome, I take that diagnosis seriously, because you’re clearly a medical expert, as evidenced by your description of your recent MRI," Meyers joked, before showing a clip of Trump talking to reporters about his health results. The late-night host also said he and Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican representative for Georgia and Trump ally who shared insults with Trump over the weekend, have something in common now that Trump has given them both nicknames. He said her "Marjorie Traitor Green" is "way cooler" than his "Seth Marble Meyers." Trump has regularly lashed out at late-night TV hosts, and, in September, when Jimmy Kimmel's show was briefly yanked from the air, he made it clear that he wanted Meyers and The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon, to get kicked off the airwaves next.