--- title: Watch Seth Meyers on Trump for Meryl Streep Tweets VIDEO description: Following Donald Trump's criticism of Meryl Streep on Twitter, Seth Meyers took a closer look at what the president elect has been up to. canonical: https://time.com/4630084/seth-meyers-donald-trump-meryl-streep-tweets/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-10T16:02:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:40:01.870Z og:title: Seth Meyers Calls Out Donald Trump for 'Impulsive' Meryl Streep Tweets og:description: "Donald Trump is the Meryl Streep of having thin skin" og:url: https://time.com/4630084/seth-meyers-donald-trump-meryl-streep-tweets/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Seth Meyers Calls Out Donald Trump for 'Impulsive' Meryl Streep Tweets twitter:description: "Donald Trump is the Meryl Streep of having thin skin" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Seth Meyers on Donald Trump's 'Impulsive' Tweets: 'Trump is the Meryl Streep of Having Thin Skin'  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 10, 2017 4:02 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 10, 2017 4:02 PM UTC Following [Donald Trump’s criticism of Meryl Streep](http://time.com/4628378/golden-globes-2017-donald-trump-meryl-streep/) as [“overrated”](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/818419002548568064) in the wake of her [Golden Globes speech](http://time.com/4628072/golden-globes-2017-meryl-streep-donald-trump-speech/), Seth Meyers decided it was time to take a closer look at what the president elect was up to during the first week of 2017. During Monday’s episode of _Late Night_, the host spoke about Trump’s “impulsive stream-of-consciousness tweets,” joking about the absurdity of his attack on Streep. “Overrated?” he said. “She’s so good, people use her to compliment people in other professions. Like LeBron James is the Meryl Streep of basketball, or Donald Trump is the Meryl Streep of having thin skin.” Meyers went on to suggest that Trump’s prolific tweeting is meant to distract from ongoing questions surrounding his [friendly relationship with Vladimir Putin](http://ti.me/2i2zM10). Watch the full clip above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4630084/seth-meyers-donald-trump-meryl-streep-tweets/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4630084/seth-meyers-donald-trump-meryl-streep-tweets/"},"headline":"Seth Meyers on Donald Trump's 'Impulsive' Tweets: 'Trump is the Meryl Streep of Having Thin Skin'","datePublished":"2017-01-10T16:02:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:40:01.870Z","description":"A closer look at Trump tweeting","url":"https://time.com/4630084/seth-meyers-donald-trump-meryl-streep-tweets/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Seth Meyers","Late Night with Seth Meyers","meryl streep","TV","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"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":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4630084/seth-meyers-donald-trump-meryl-streep-tweets/","name":"Seth Meyers on Donald Trump's 'Impulsive' Tweets: 'Trump is the Meryl Streep of Having Thin Skin'"}}]}] ```