--- title: Seth Meyers Knocks Trump for National Anthem Football Video description: Seth Meyers slammed Trump for appearing to not know all the words to the national anthem at the College Football Championship. canonical: https://time.com/5096827/seth-meyers-trump-national-anthem-fail/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-01-10T18:06:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:49:40.471Z og:title: Seth Meyers Knocks Trump for Viral National Anthem Video og:description: A video of the president appearing to botch the song has gone viral og:url: https://time.com/5096827/seth-meyers-trump-national-anthem-fail/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta72ce4425bf9d5f5/6988f7bffb4eac3d638953d2/screen-shot-2018-01-10-at-10-15-49-am.png?branch=production&width=1188&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1188 og:image:height: 668 og:image:alt: Seth-Meyers-Trump-Workday og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Seth Meyers Knocks Trump for Viral National Anthem Video twitter:description: A video of the president appearing to botch the song has gone viral twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta72ce4425bf9d5f5/6988f7bffb4eac3d638953d2/screen-shot-2018-01-10-at-10-15-49-am.png?branch=production&width=1188&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Seth Meyers Knocks Trump for Viral National Anthem Video > Sponsored content. 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During the “A Closer Look” segment of Tuesday’s episode of _Late Night_, the host put Trump on blast for the odd moment following a [year of feuding](http://time.com/4960638/donald-trump-latest-battle-against-nfl/) with the National Football League over demonstrations by players and team officials during the song. “You would think that a man who ran on a platform of pure patriotism and who spent months lecturing athletes about respecting the national anthem would at the very least know the words to the anthem,” Meyers said. “And yet Trump seemed lost as he tried to sing along to the anthem before \[Monday\] night’s National College Football Championship.” Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5096827/seth-meyers-trump-national-anthem-fail/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5096827/seth-meyers-trump-national-anthem-fail/"},"headline":"Seth Meyers Knocks Trump for Viral National Anthem Video","datePublished":"2018-01-10T18:06:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:49:40.471Z","description":"A video of the president appearing to botch the song has gone viral","url":"https://time.com/5096827/seth-meyers-trump-national-anthem-fail/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Seth Meyers","Late Night with Seth Meyers","TV","Late Night Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta72ce4425bf9d5f5/6988f7bffb4eac3d638953d2/screen-shot-2018-01-10-at-10-15-49-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/blta72ce4425bf9d5f5/6988f7bffb4eac3d638953d2/screen-shot-2018-01-10-at-10-15-49-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Seth-Meyers-Trump-Workday","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/5096827/seth-meyers-trump-national-anthem-fail/","name":"Seth Meyers Knocks Trump for Viral National Anthem Video"}}]}] ```