--- title: Seth Meyers Bans Donald Trump from NBC's 'Late Night' description: The comedian banned Trump from the program in a show of solidarity with the Washington Post canonical: https://time.com/4370367/donald-trump-banned-late-night-seth-meyers/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-15T18:46:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T22:37:54.831Z article:section: Politics og:title: Seth Meyers Bans Donald Trump from NBC's Late Night og:description: In support of freedom of the press og:url: https://time.com/4370367/donald-trump-banned-late-night-seth-meyers/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt38ddec5cbe52b02d/6986a0dd169ab0b71d27adf3/d3592de20e374db590b32e515cf8b646-0.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Seth Meyers og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Seth Meyers Bans Donald Trump from NBC's Late Night twitter:description: In support of freedom of the press twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt38ddec5cbe52b02d/6986a0dd169ab0b71d27adf3/d3592de20e374db590b32e515cf8b646-0.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Seth Meyers Bans Donald Trump from NBC's _Late Night_ by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Jun 15, 2016 6:46 PM UTC  Host Seth Meyers speaks on stage at the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on Monday, Aug. 25, 2014, in Los Angeles. Host Seth Meyers speaks on stage at the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on Monday, Aug. 25, 2014, in Los Angeles.Vince Bucci—Invision/AP by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Jun 15, 2016 6:46 PM UTC Donald Trump has been banned from appearing on NBC’s _Late Night with Seth Meyers_ after he [banned the Washington _Post_](http://time.com/4367449/donald-trump-washington-post-press-credentials/) from covering his presidential campaign. Host Seth Meyers made the announcement Tuesday night, saying Trump had hit a “new low” following [his remarks in the aftermath](http://time.com/4367965/what-orlando-revealed-about-donald-trump/) of Sunday’s deadly shooting at an Orlando nightclub—comments that the _Post_ also criticized. “As for the Washington _Post_, we here at Late Night believe in freedom of the press and therefore have decided to stand in solidarity with them,” Meyers said. “So as long as the Washington _Post_ is banned from Donald Trump’s campaign, Donald Trump will be banned from ever coming on this show.” The shooting [left victims 49 dead](http://time.com/4365246/orlando-shooting-nightclub-pulse/), to which Trump responded by blaming Islamic terrorists and reasserting his strategy to ban Muslims from entering the country. He later criticized President Barack Obama, saying “there’s something going on” because he didn’t mention “radical Islam” in his address to the nation after the shooting. Meyers dismissed the billionaire’s statement as racist. “To be clear, this is bigotry, plain and simple,” Meyers said. “To claim that any group of people – immigrants or anyone else – has anything in common with a terrorist murderer based simply on their ethnic background or religion or where they’re from is dangerous and wrong.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4370367/donald-trump-banned-late-night-seth-meyers/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4370367/donald-trump-banned-late-night-seth-meyers/"},"headline":"Seth Meyers Bans Donald Trump from NBC's Late Night","datePublished":"2016-06-15T18:46:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T22:37:54.831Z","description":"In support of freedom of the press","url":"https://time.com/4370367/donald-trump-banned-late-night-seth-meyers/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic","Television","Seth Meyers","Late Night with Seth Meyers","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt38ddec5cbe52b02d/6986a0dd169ab0b71d27adf3/d3592de20e374db590b32e515cf8b646-0.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel White","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-white/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt38ddec5cbe52b02d/6986a0dd169ab0b71d27adf3/d3592de20e374db590b32e515cf8b646-0.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Seth Meyers","caption":"Seth Meyers","creditText":"Vince Bucci—Invision/AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4370367/donald-trump-banned-late-night-seth-meyers/","name":"Seth Meyers Bans Donald Trump from NBC's Late Night"}}]}] ```