--- description: Seth Meyers took on President Trump's so-called deal making skills title: Seth Meyers Calls President Trump’s Art of the Deal a 'Complete Sham' image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Seth Meyers Calls President Trump’s Art of the Deal a 'Complete Sham' by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Mar 28, 2017 12:39 PM CUT by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Mar 28, 2017 12:39 PM CUT Seth Meyers called President Trump’s so-called deal-making skills a “complete sham” while slamming the [failure of his health care bill](http://time.com/4714199/donald-trump-democrats-tax-reform-infrastructure/ "undefined") on Monday. “Health care was the first test of Trump’s supposed deal-making skills and it went up in flames,” Meyers said during his [_Late Night_](http://time.com/4710838/seth-meyers-on-neil-gorsuch/ "undefined")segment A Closer Look. Trump’s team has excused the president’s inability to get a deal through by blaming the [“broken” system in Washington](http://time.com/4713107/donald-trump-transcript-ahca-bill/ "undefined") — something Meyers wasn’t buying since Trump bragged about his knowledge of the system on the campaign trail. Meyers pointed out that Trump and his team are now “trying to claim that he never promised to replace Obamacare quickly.” “In fact, Trump seems to be looking for literally anyone else to take the blame for the collapse of the healthcare bill he enthusiastically supported,” Meyers said. Watch the segment above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4714824/seth-meyers-trump-deal-making-sham/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4714824/seth-meyers-trump-deal-making-sham/"},"headline":"Seth Meyers Calls President Trump’s Art of the Deal a 'Complete Sham'","datePublished":"2017-03-28T12:39:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T04:03:56.995Z","description":"Trump's health care bill \"went up in flames\"","url":"https://time.com/4714824/seth-meyers-trump-deal-making-sham/","keywords":["Television","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","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":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4714824/seth-meyers-trump-deal-making-sham/","name":"Seth Meyers Calls President Trump’s Art of the Deal a 'Complete Sham'"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"President Trump: It's the Democrats' Fault the Health Care Bill Failed","description":"President Donald Trump blamed Democrats on Friday for the failure of the GOP health care bill that would have replaced the Affordable Care Act.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/ySPMTcST/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2017-03-24T21:27:07.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/ySPMTcST.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4714824/seth-meyers-trump-deal-making-sham/","duration":"PT1M44S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4714824/seth-meyers-trump-deal-making-sham/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```