--- title: Seth Meyers: Trump's Inauguration Day Impeachment VIDEO description: Leading up to Donald Trump's inauguration, Seth Meyers took some time to predict how his first day in office will play out. canonical: https://time.com/4640739/seth-meyers-donald-trump-inauguration/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-20T16:00:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:40:19.084Z og:title: Seth Meyers Jokes Trump's Inauguration Schedule Includes an Impeachment Hearing og:description: "Noon swearing-in, 3 p.m. inaugural parade, 6 p.m. impeachment hearing" og:url: https://time.com/4640739/seth-meyers-donald-trump-inauguration/ 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 Jokes Trump's Inauguration Schedule Includes an Impeachment Hearing twitter:description: "Noon swearing-in, 3 p.m. inaugural parade, 6 p.m. impeachment hearing" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Seth Meyers Jokes That Trump's Inauguration Day Will End With an Impeachment Hearing > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 20, 2017 4:00 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 20, 2017 4:00 PM UTC Leading up to [Donald Trump’s inauguration](http://time.com/4640703/donald-trump-inauguration-day-2017/) as the [45th president](http://time.com/4638055/countries-dreading-donald-trump/) of the United States, [Seth Meyers](http://time.com/4636298/seth-meyers-on-trump-john-lewis/) took some time to predict how his first hours in office will play out. During the “A Closer Look” segment of Thursday’s episode of _The Late_ Show, the host joked that the day’s festivities will conclude with an impeachment hearing, showing a clip in which the chief ethics lawyer for George W. Bush deemed Trump’s business conflicts unconstitutional. “I guess that explains the schedule,” Meyers said. “Noon swearing-in, 3 p.m. inaugural parade, 6 p.m. impeachment hearing.” Meyers also had fun with Trump’s lack of A-list inaugural performers, joking about desperate attempts to get notable names. “You get an ambassadorship for booking an inauguration performer?,” he said. “If that were the case, you can bet Chris Christie would be cold-calling everyone in the Los Angeles phone book — ‘Please, Rihanna, if you do this, I could be ambassador to Chile, and I love Chili’s!'” Watch the full clip above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4640739/seth-meyers-donald-trump-inauguration/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4640739/seth-meyers-donald-trump-inauguration/"},"headline":"Seth Meyers Jokes That Trump's Inauguration Day Will End With an Impeachment Hearing","datePublished":"2017-01-20T16:00:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:40:19.084Z","description":"\"Noon swearing-in, 3 p.m. inaugural parade, 6 p.m. impeachment hearing\"","url":"https://time.com/4640739/seth-meyers-donald-trump-inauguration/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","politics","Seth Meyers","Late Night with Seth Meyers","TV","Donald Trump","Inauguration 2017"],"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/4640739/seth-meyers-donald-trump-inauguration/","name":"Seth Meyers Jokes That Trump's Inauguration Day Will End With an Impeachment Hearing"}}]}] ```