--- title: Seth Meyers Adds to Trump List of Banned CDC Words description: Seth Meyers tacked a few terms onto the list of words the Trump administration reportedly barred the CDC from using in budget documents. canonical: https://time.com/5073486/seth-meyers-trump-cdc-banned-words/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-12-20T16:01:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:49:24.548Z og:title: Seth Meyers Adds Some Words to That List of Banned CDC Words og:description: They're Trump themed. 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"McDonald's Happy Meals will be called big boy food" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt76ac174140f66055/6988f5f18fd2ee9b8535a18d/screen-shot-2017-12-20-at-10-15-23-am.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Seth Meyers Makes a Few Additions to That Reported List of Banned CDC Words  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Dec 20, 2017 4:01 PM UTC  NBC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Dec 20, 2017 4:01 PM UTC In the wake of a [_Washington Post_ report](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/cdc-gets-list-of-forbidden-words-fetus-transgender-diversity/2017/12/15/f503837a-e1cf-11e7-89e8-edec16379010%5Fstory.html?utm%5Fterm=.1d4c2827c399) that President Donald Trump’s administration is barring the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention](http://time.com/5069289/cdc-banned-words-trump/) from using [seven words](http://time.com/5068160/cdc-banned-words-transgender/) in next year’s budget documents, [Seth Meyers](http://time.com/5044775/seth-meyers-matt-lauer-sexual-misconduct-allegations/) tacked on a few additional terms During Tuesday’s episode of _Late Night_, the host joked that the list of CDC banned words — which reportedly includes “transgender,” “fetus” and “diversity” — had been expanded to cover a whole new set of vocabulary. “Those aren’t the only words the Trump administration wants to replace,” he said. “From now on, coal will be referred to as patriot rocks, McDonald’s Happy Meals will be called big boy food, neo-Nazis will be called fun time torch boys, the Civil War will be referred to as the War of Good People on Both Sides, Hillary Clinton will be referred to as Prisoner #92753.” Watch Meyers reveal his full list of banned words — and their replacement terms — in the clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5073486/seth-meyers-trump-cdc-banned-words/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5073486/seth-meyers-trump-cdc-banned-words/"},"headline":"Seth Meyers Makes a Few Additions to That Reported List of Banned CDC Words","datePublished":"2017-12-20T16:01:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:49:24.548Z","description":"\"McDonald's Happy Meals will be called big boy food\"","url":"https://time.com/5073486/seth-meyers-trump-cdc-banned-words/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","politics","Seth Meyers","Late Night with Seth Meyers","TV","Donald Trump","Late Night Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt76ac174140f66055/6988f5f18fd2ee9b8535a18d/screen-shot-2017-12-20-at-10-15-23-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt76ac174140f66055/6988f5f18fd2ee9b8535a18d/screen-shot-2017-12-20-at-10-15-23-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Seth-Meyers-Trump-CDC-Banned-Words","caption":"","creditText":"NBC","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/5073486/seth-meyers-trump-cdc-banned-words/","name":"Seth Meyers Makes a Few Additions to That Reported List of Banned CDC Words"}}]}] ```