--- ---  # Seth Meyers Knocks Trump for Viral National Anthem Video  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 10, 2018 6:06 PM UTC  NBC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 10, 2018 6:06 PM UTC After a video of [Trump](http://time.com/5093600/president-trump-flu-shot/) singing the [national anthem](http://time.com/money/5093253/pink-national-anthem-super-bowl/) at Monday night’s [College Football Championship](http://time.com/5092773/donald-trump-college-football-national-championship-protests/) made the online rounds, Seth Meyers slammed the President for appearing to not know all the words momentarily. 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. Seth Meyers Knocks Trump for National Anthem Football Video ```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"}}]}] ```