--- title: Watch Seth Meyers to Media: 'Do You Have Amnesia?' description: Seth Meyers blasts the media for fawning coverage of Trump speech, asking 'Do You Have Amnesia?' canonical: https://time.com/4688488/seth-meyers-spoofs-media-on-trump/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-02T17:39:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:41:33.519Z og:title: Seth Meyers to Media on Trump: 'Do You Have Amnesia?' og:description: Seth Meyers blasts the media for praising Trump’s speech og:url: https://time.com/4688488/seth-meyers-spoofs-media-on-trump/ 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 to Media on Trump: 'Do You Have Amnesia?' twitter:description: Seth Meyers blasts the media for praising Trump’s speech twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Seth Meyers to the Media After Trump's Speech: 'Do You Have Amnesia?' by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Mar 2, 2017 5:39 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Mar 2, 2017 5:39 PM UTC While some members of the media praised President Donald Trump’s tone in his [first speech](http://time.com/4687095/trump-congress-video-memes/?xid=homepage) to Congress, Seth Meyers was not [one of them](http://time.com/4686999/stephen-colbert-trump-congress-address/?xid=homepage). “It was a [restrained performance](http://time.com/4687122/trump-congress-address-reactions/?xid=homepage), which means once again, the media salivated over the possibility of a more presidential Trump,” Meyers said on _Late Night_ on Wednesday, playing a clip of Fox News’ Chris Wallace saying that he felt “tonight Donald [Trump](http://time.com/4688038/dreamer-detained-ice/?xid=homepage) became the President of the United States.” Meyers strongly disagreed with that statement, countering: “I bet there are some Muslims and undocumented immigrants that would tell you he became president back in f—ing January.” Meyers went on to suggest the media has a short-term memory when it comes to [Trump’s](http://time.com/4687109/trump-congress-address-travel-ban/?xid=homepage) tone. “Guys, seriously, do you have amnesia?” asked Meyers. “Did you forget all the other times you said the exact same thing?” To remind everyone, he showed a montage of talking heads waxing on about Trump’s “more presidential” tone from 2016\. “And maybe Lucy \[from _Peanuts_\] really will let me kick the football this time,” Meyers joked. “Despite what you heard from the media about Trump’s performance, the speech was heavy on empty promises and light on substance,” Meyers said. “Let’s not get fooled again.” Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4688488/seth-meyers-spoofs-media-on-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4688488/seth-meyers-spoofs-media-on-trump/"},"headline":"Seth Meyers to the Media After Trump's Speech: 'Do You Have Amnesia?'","datePublished":"2017-03-02T17:39:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:41:33.519Z","description":"Seth Meyers blasts the media for the fawning coverage of Trump’s speech","url":"https://time.com/4688488/seth-meyers-spoofs-media-on-trump/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","politics","Seth Meyers","Late Night with Seth Meyers","Donald Trump","Late Night Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"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/4688488/seth-meyers-spoofs-media-on-trump/","name":"Seth Meyers to the Media After Trump's Speech: 'Do You Have Amnesia?'"}}]}] ```