One of the ways Donald Trump’s presidency wears on the people who are not the direct targets of his vindictive policies is by requiring them, again and again, to muster up the mental strength to respond to his tirades as though they had some connection with reality. Taking the daily pile of Trump tweets, speeches, and statements and treating it as though it made any sense at all—as though his words referred to actual objects in the world besides the worms eating his brain—is exhausting. Trump has never said anything in his life worth dignifying with a response, but because he’s the president, it’s everyone’s responsibility to respond anyway, lest silence be taken for consent. Seth Meyers has been responding to President Trump for five days a week for more than a year now, and for a second on Monday night, it finally broke him.
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