--- title: Seth Meyers: Trump the 'Tiger Woods of Hypocrisy' VIDEO description: Despite attempts by Donald Trump's aides to downplay his golfing, Seth Meyers has definitely taken notice of the president's habit. canonical: https://time.com/4681747/seth-meyers-donald-trump-golf/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-24T16:08:18.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:41:23.257Z og:title: Seth Meyers Dubs President Trump the 'Tiger Woods of Hypocrisy' og:description: "When it comes to being a hypocrite, Donald Trump has a zero handicap" og:url: https://time.com/4681747/seth-meyers-donald-trump-golf/ 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 Dubs President Trump the 'Tiger Woods of Hypocrisy' twitter:description: "When it comes to being a hypocrite, Donald Trump has a zero handicap" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Seth Meyers Dubs President Donald Trump the 'Tiger Woods of Hypocrisy'  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 24, 2017 4:08 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 24, 2017 4:08 PM UTC Despite President Donald Trump’s [insistence](http://time.com/4681555/trump-us-nuclear-arsenal/) early on that if elected he [“wouldn’t have time to play golf](http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/20/politics/donald-trump-golfing-presidency/),” [Seth Meyers](http://time.com/4679972/seth-meyers-donald-trump-mexico-wall/) has definitely taken notice of the president’s penchant for hitting the links. During Thursday’s “A Closer Look” segment of _Late Night_, the host addressed reports that Trump has [golfed](http://time.com/4675808/donald-trump-dubai-eric-sons-golf-club/) several times in the month since he was sworn into office. “Some of you might be saying, ‘But he criticized Obama for golfing, what about that?,'” he said. “Well, you are forgetting that when it comes to being a hypocrite, Donald Trump has a zero handicap. He’s the Tiger Woods of hypocrisy.” Meyers went on to discuss constituents who are angry about Trump and the GOP’s agenda. Watch the full clip above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4681747/seth-meyers-donald-trump-golf/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4681747/seth-meyers-donald-trump-golf/"},"headline":"Seth Meyers Dubs President Donald Trump the 'Tiger Woods of Hypocrisy'","datePublished":"2017-02-24T16:08:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:41:23.257Z","description":"\"When it comes to being a hypocrite, Donald Trump has a zero handicap\"","url":"https://time.com/4681747/seth-meyers-donald-trump-golf/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","politics","Seth Meyers","Late Night","Late Night with Seth Meyers","TV","Donald Trump","Late Night Television"],"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/4681747/seth-meyers-donald-trump-golf/","name":"Seth Meyers Dubs President Donald Trump the 'Tiger Woods of Hypocrisy'"}}]}] ```