Tracy Morgan | Trump’s Iran War Plan and Timeline Keep Changing, Trump Gets Distracted By Drapes: A Closer Look

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The U.S. launch joint military strikes with Israel

against Iran over the weekend.

An Operation Epic Fury.

Epic Fury.

Is it a missile strike or a new mountain dew?

Folks, this was even more successful than Operation Bahablast.

From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City,

please enjoy this podcast edition of Late Night

with Seth Meyers.

On today's show, Seth Chats with actor and comedian,

Tracy Morgan.

But first, a closer look.

The Trump administration launched a war with Iran

without any clear strategy for how it would end

or how long it would last or who would take over.

For more on this, it's time for a closer look.

After launching yet another illegal war in the Middle East,

that could destabilize the region and put American troops

in harm's way, Trump has been spending his time

doing what all presidents do during wars,

taking calls from reporters.

I just got off the phone with President.

He is very pleased with how things are going.

So, I just got off the phone with President Trump.

It was a nine minute phone interview.

Kristen, let's bring you in here.

You talk to President Trump over the weekend by phone.

Robert Costa spoke with President Trump by phone this evening.

Rachel spoke with President Trump late today.

Rachel, he told you that he was with the generals

when you were on the phone with him.

He was with the generals.

So, they were there just sitting around mid-war

while he chitchat it.

Yeah, I'm in Marlaga right now.

We're looking at some highly classified material.

I put you on speaker so you can say hello.

Say hello, generals.

I mean, this is like when I call my mom and she picks up

even though she's in the middle of her book club.

And she's like, I'm here with the ladies.

I'll pass you around.

No, mom, I don't have time.

Oh, hi, Gloria.

Hi, yes.

Yeah, things are good.

How's SNL?

I left 12 years ago.

Yep.

Now, I have a late night talk show now.

You don't have to apologize.

It's not a downgrade.

You know what?

Pass me the Janet.

I need her a bunk cake recipe.

Also, why is he suddenly chatting

with reporters on the phone?

Aren't these the same people he always says

who are destroying America

and are the enemy of the people?

This is like if you had a brutal six-hour break-up talk.

With your girlfriend on Friday night.

And then call her on Monday saying,

hey, I just saw there's a new pokey place.

Should we check it out?

Why are you scream-crying?

You love pokey.

But now that the eye toll is dead,

the question is, what happens next?

Who takes over in Iran?

President Trump told The New York Times

he has, quote, three very good choices

for who could lead Iran.

Okay, well, he's got some ideas at least.

That's good.

So what happened to those three candidates?

He said, the attack was so successful.

It knocked out most of the candidates.

It's not going to be anybody that we were thinking of

because they are all dead.

Second or third place is dead.

Second and third place is dead.

That sounds like they're announcing the results

of the Coney Island hot dog eating contest.

After a salmonella outbreak.

First place is dead.

Second place is dead.

Third place is in critical condition

and now we are hearing dead.

Also, I love that he's describing it

as so successful in one breath.

Well, in the next he admits they blew up

plans A, B, and C.

This does strike me as a job.

You don't want to just get thrust into it.

It's a country of 90 million people, not a Hollywood movie.

We're hoping for a Dave situation

where Kevin Klein type steps in to feel devoid.

Was Dave too dated a reference?

You got to pin that one on set.

It wasn't in the original draft.

Seth said they'll all remember Dave,

and now he's the one,

oh, I wouldn't want to be Seth Myers right now.

He's going to get an earful

from his very smug writers who warned him

this very thing would happen.

But do check out Dave.

I'm sure it's streaming somewhere.

It's a great film.

1993's Dave, starring Kevin Klein

and Ben Kingsley.

The great Ben Kingsley.

We love Ben Kingsley.

We love Ben Kingsley.

Just make sure there's some f***ing Dave fans next week.

Who's running audience control?

There's no f***ing Dave fans here.

All right, so Chums plan for who would take over

to use to have gotten scrambled.

But what about his timeline for the war?

Surely he's put some thought into that, right?

He told Axios this walk at end in two to three days

with a deal, then he told New York Times

four to five weeks of fighting.

So can either be three days or four to five weeks?

Okay, spectrum cable.

Yeah, high.

You said the technician would be here last Friday

and now it's Monday.

And I just love to know when you think someone's going to be here.

Wait, what?

No, don't put me on speakers so I can say hi to the guys.

Hi, God.

Hi, so you're all.

Nobody's doing service calls.

You're all just sitting around in headquarters.

Cool, cool.

So maybe three days, maybe five weeks.

There are a lot of pesky life and death details to work out here.

But Trump wants to assure you he has the attention span

to figure this out.

Somebody said today they said, oh, well, president wants to do it

really quickly after that, he'll get bored.

I don't get bored.

There's nothing boring about this.

Do you agree with that, Pete?

I don't think there's anything Mr. General.

There's nothing boring about it.

Somebody actually said from the media, I think he'll get bored

after about a week or two.

No, we don't get bored.

I never get bored.

I never get bored.

I got bored.

I wouldn't be standing here right now.

I guarantee you that.

And for once, I agree.

You're not going to get bored with Iran.

I mean, what would that even look like?

I mean, I guess if you were bored, you just start talking about drapes

and ballrooms instead of the war you just started.

But even I don't think you do that.

What?

Really?

Oh, f*** me.

We're adding onto the building a little bit.

We're improving the building.

See that nice drape?

When that comes down right now, you see a very, very deep hole.

But in about a year and a half from now,

you're going to see a very, very beautiful building.

And there's your entrance to it, right there.

In fact, it looks so nice.

I don't think I'll even, I think I'll save money on the doors

because it can't get more beautiful than that.

I picked those drapes in my first term.

I always like gold.

But I think we can save a lot of money.

I just saved curtains.

But it will be a bit spectacular to be the most beautiful ballroom.

I believe it's because I built many a ballroom.

I believe it's going to be the most beautiful ballroom anywhere in the world.

And when you hear all that hammering out there, you know why the first lady is not thrilled exactly.

She said, well, the pile drivers ever stop.

You know, they go from six in the morning till 11.30 in the evening.

Can you imagine?

Literally, bombs are falling all over the Middle East.

And he's complaining about construction sounds.

But for anyone who's already worrying about the cost of another war,

did you factor in the money he's saving on curtains?

The door money?

Also, I have to go back to the previous clip where Trump was insisting he wouldn't get bored to talk about this.

There's nothing boring about this.

Do you agree with that, Pete?

I don't think there's anything Mr. General.

Mr. General?

Is that his name?

Are you talking to an actual general or the mascot from the insurance companies?

I can't save you enough on car insurance to pay for this war.

Don't ask me again.

I know you saved curtain money. We still can't do it.

In fact, Trump's plan for what happens next in Iran

seems to be less about precision in planning and more about crossing our fingers.

The social media post Sunday, President Trump wrote this,

quote, hopefully the IRGC and police will peacefully merge with the Iranian patriots

and work together as a unit to bring back the country to the greatness it deserves.

I mean, I don't know what's more troubling.

The use of hopefully or the use of peacefully merged.

Like, Iran is suddenly going to become a traffic circle in Daniel Tiger's neighborhood.

And it's not just Trump who seems indecisive about how all this is going to end.

Even the war's biggest cheerleaders, like Lindsey Graham, insist it is not their job to plan out an end game.

The new Iran, whatever it is, if for this a cleric or a representative democracy,

our goal is to make sure it cannot become, again, the largest state-sponsored terrorism.

That's a win for us.

Is there a plan to make sure that happens, Senator?

Is there a plan as the president have a plan to guarantee that that happens?

No, it's not his job or my job to do this.

How many times do I have to tell you?

You know this side there, you break it, you own it. I don't buy that one bit.

I don't buy that one bit, you break it, you own it.

And I said as much of the pottery barn with my Mimaw knocked over a shelf of ceramic bases.

It's not her fault you can't see.

But it wouldn't kill her to put her glasses on.

I know you don't like the way you look at a Mimaw, but ain't no man attracted an old bag.

It keeps knocking over bases with her ass.

But the thing that strikes me is especially weird about this,

is how little effort Trump is putting into even trying to convince anyone,

any of us that this war, no one asked for, is a good idea.

The polling stuff is terrible, and when Trump announced the war,

he did it from his private club in the middle of the night.

President Trump is in Mar-a-Lago.

He addressed the nation in a video message in the middle of the night last night.

For sure, time ago, the United States military began major combat operations in Iran.

I'm sorry, but if you're going to announce an illegal war that violates the Constitution

from your private club at three, can you at least take the hat off first?

You look like an Italian tourist in Times Square.

I was, were you going to turn it over for questions to knock off Spider-Man?

Now, of course, since we pointed out countless times on the show,

Trump and his supporters claimed they claimed he was against regime change wars in nation building abroad.

He called himself the candidate of peace, which was ludicrous then.

It is even more ridiculous now, but now his MAGA base has to get on board with the neo-conversion of Trump

they pretended didn't exist.

How are they going to reconcile their desire to end foreign wars with Trump's desire to start foreign wars?

Fox News, you got any ideas?

And then your message to some of our friends on the right who are saying,

look, President Trump ran on no regime change.

And now President Trump is doing regime change.

You see the Democrats are picking up on that for 2026 themes.

Your message to them tonight.

Well, it's incredible how the rumors,

Laura's hasn't even been 24 hours.

It's happened at 3 a.m.

It's not 3 a.m. Eastern time.

Can you give the man a chance to cook a little bit?

I don't know, man.

There's no amount of cooking that's going to undo the regime change.

I mean, unless you're cooking up a way to re-animate the corpses of those candidates you killed,

I mean, who in your administration would even do a thing like, oh!

Oh!

Also, you can't say let him cook on Fox News.

No one understands what you're saying.

They're all 100 years old.

They think you mean Trump's literally preparing food.

Oh, I hope it's soup.

You sound like a 40-year-old drug dealer trying to blend it at high school.

Hey, chat!

Mind if I'm hogging you? No cap. I'm looks-maxing.

Let me cook.

Trump lied.

He said he would put an end to regime change wars,

and now he's starting yet another regime change war.

But this time, he can't even decide what the goal is,

how long it'll take, who will take over, how will end Americans.

Don't want this. The polling is terrible.

Much like the site of his new ballroom, Trump is in.

A very, very deep hole.

This has been A Closer Look.

Well, there's no secrets here.

Brafos, the Real Housewives of Atlanta, is why.

Castro!

It's a dinner from hell.

He's a boy.

I love it.

And the ladies are on the prow.

The people won't blind.

That's my friend.

I don't think I can find me a cowboy.

With big arms and tattoos.

I do feel like I'm ready to start dating.

And it's none of nobody's business.

Huh.

We'll see.

The premiere of the Real Housewives of Atlanta,

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I guess tonight is an Emmy Award-enominated actor

and very funny comedian.

You know from 30 Rock.

Elasto G and his work on Saturday Night Live.

He stars in the new comedy series, The Fall.

And Rise of Reggie Dinkins, which airs Monday nights

at 830 on NBC and Streams.

The next day on Peacock, please welcome back to the show.

The only are very good friend, Tracy Morgan, everybody.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Wow, TV!

Hi, Tracy.

What's up?

What's up, Sam?

How are we?

I'm good, baby.

You know me and you go back like Spine of course and Kelsey.

That's right.

We go back a long time.

2001, we've known each other a long time.

And I want to talk about your new show.

But before that, I do want to check in real quick.

How are you feeling about your nicks this year?

You've been going a lot again.

I love you, Tracy.

Well, we did yesterday.

Yeah, really nice.

We spent Santa Antonio.

Yeah.

I love New York.

I love New York.

I love y'all.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You got the best pizza.

You got the best pizza.

We got some way stations.

You know that, right?

Yeah.

We got the best people in the world.

Yeah.

Yes.

Right here is New York City.

This is where I can't calm down.

We talk about Zullen.

You next.

You're the flying turtle.

The three animals, you y'all can get it.

Are you going to play him?

No.

Not enough.

You know why everybody can't come here?

Because the lights are too bright.

Right.

Lights are too bright on Broadway.

Yeah.

The city, never sleep.

We went through that blizzard.

The snow is gone.

The snow said, I ain't landing down there.

I was, you know, I had a great New York moment.

I brought my son, the first sporting event I ever took him to

was in Nick's game.

And before the game started, we ran into you.

And it was thrilling.

That was who I wanted him.

That's who I wanted him to see first.

But you don't know.

You see how close he is in my air?

Yeah.

He was within my air.

And he holds $20.

What?

He asked, he wanted to hold $20.

I'm a monkey.

I'm his monkey.

You took...

He would take an action from him?

Yes.

He'd like some bets now.

He lost three stacks of gifts to Jack.

Oh, no.

Well, now that's a good transition.

And I want to talk about your show, Reggie Dinkins.

And I will say, I saw you on our friend Jimmy Fallon show

last week.

And things got very off track.

And I want to make sure that we talk about your show.

A lot of people, I love you, love, help create the show.

It means Robert Carlock, Tina Fey.

Tina and my sister.

It's a wonderful show.

Oh, brothers.

You play a former...

A former Jets player who got kicked out of the league for gambling.

Yeah.

And now you're making a documentary about your life.

Big shots to Pete Rose.

I love Pete Rose.

Yeah.

They mad at him.

He went to his grade and not going into the Hall of Fame for gambling.

Yeah.

They mad at him because he used a dugout phone to call his bookie.

Yeah.

So this show is based on that, you know?

But we are here.

Do you feel like Pete Rose should have had a redemption?

What?

Charlie Hussle.

Yeah.

I had a fight over him because I was playing baseball cards.

And this dude took two Willie Randolphs,

a Pete Rose, a Reggie Jackson, a Rod Gagey, and a Brent Nettler.

And I said, you're not leaving this park with my cards.

Now try to make a deal with him, but he wouldn't go for the deal.

So I beat him up and took my cards, man.

I still collect baseball cards to this day.

Do you remember Jordan Rookie?

Really?

You want to buy it?

It's time.

Food.

Wait, I'm sorry.

Please don't use this time to sell your baseball card.

Ah!

Did you, you played football in high school, right?

Yes, I was in tail back.

I was in a half back.

I was pretty good.

Yeah.

I ran a 4-6-40 in the junior.

That's really good.

So you did track and football?

That was here.

I didn't do nothing else.

I didn't do science.

I didn't do nothing else.

The sports, and I said, sports and cheerleaders, that's me.

Oh, okay.

That's when I discovered girls.

Okay, gotcha.

And that's when I put math and math, man.

You're all out of weight.

The football came in handy the first year of first appearance.

And I said, now you played a William refrigerator pair.

Oh, wow.

I remember my very first appearance.

My life has come 360.

You're going to play another football player.

Yeah.

You're a, you're a, you're a, you're a,

a giant span of real life.

Yeah.

You play a former jet.

What do you feel about people who, who root for the jets?

Do you, do you have sympathy for people who choose?

You are a jet fan, a met fan, or a net fan.

You got low self-esteem.

Okay.

You feel like they've just made bad choices.

I heard that your crew is jet fans.

Yeah, we're all jets and mats.

No, you better move on from who to,

you think I should cut ties?

You think I should cut ties?

You've got the ranges.

I'm going down.

You might come back.

I'm going to get some, some giant fans to do your cameras.

No, I just want to say, you know,

the giants haven't really been guns blazing in recent years.

That's because we're building.

I see.

We're, we're, I'm going to start me calling for them.

I got some high schoolers for them.

You, uh, uh, you, we said you were forming a tailback.

How many plays do you think you would survive

if you played NFL football right now?

Well, how many plays would I survive?

It took me so long to like change the way you were sitting.

True.

True.

Yeah.

But you got to understand I used to play for Cleveland.

Cleveland?

Yeah.

They put me in the game now.

I'm just calling the time out.

That's it.

Which, which Cleveland did you, uh, play for them?

I played for the Cleveland dugout.

Cleveland dugout, were they a local team?

The Cleveland dugout?

You don't like that guy right here.

You don't like that guy right there?

Yeah, we'll get him out during the, uh,

Yeah, we'll get him out during the, uh, yeah.

You know what?

I didn't think so either.

But now he's very surprised.

Yeah.

Keep putting his hand in the loop.

You know what?

I want to ask you a lot more questions

about Reggie Dickens.

Will you stick around?

Mm-hmm.

All right.

Well, you're on board with Reggie Morgan.

Welcome back, everyone.

Reggie Dickens.

I mean, one of my favorite people in this business

during the other, Daniel Radcliffe.

How do you enjoy working with Daniel?

He's so sweet.

Yeah.

My whole cast, I mean, he's different with me.

He's, we're like, that's my brother.

And like, we'll be working.

And he's always grabbing.

You know, I got hit by a truck and all that.

So he's always grabbing and helping me and moving me.

And he's really on me all the time.

I love him for that, man.

I love him.

I know you're, uh, I don't know if you're-

I'm going to see him this Friday on Broadway.

Are you really?

That's fantastic.

So brother.

You know, I know you're more of a Star Wars guy

than a Harry Potter guy.

Ah, Star Wars.

Well, I went to the knit game with a female

that's in the Star Wars movie now.

Really?

I told her.

I told her that Chewbacca is garbage.

Is this it?

Because everybody knows he's behind in the shop support payments.

Chewbacca is behind me.

Chewbacca is behind me.

Chewbacca is behind me.

Chewbacca is behind me.

Chewbacca is behind me.

This is new.

Chewbacca is behind me.

You are kind of an insider when you-

What's the got a Billy D Williams?

What was the Billy D Williams?

Lando Calrissian?

Lando Calrissian left for good union job.

He went against the Babylon Alliance

and went and got with them.

He went in pile.

Yeah.

Bad.

Bad, bad.

Hey, is it true?

Uh, you once got lost at a zoo when you were-

But I was younger, yeah.

I was in camp.

You were in camp.

I was in camp.

I was in camp.

I was in camp.

Well, that was around 40.

What did you see?

Yeah, I saw that in my outfit,

I saw it.

No one had pointed that out.

I said, nobody thought nothing happened to anyone.

Sure.

That's it.

Wasn't it a bit Tracy Do?

I don't know.

It was Dr. Roxath the Monkey.

So, I hear that!

I ran and I took off,

I was lassing the Frog Zoo for like four hours and they found me.

I was hanging out with some flamingos.

I might've got one in the pregnant, I don't know.

She laid the airing and I cut out.

I was a dead meat Dad to a flamingo chip.

about Chewbacca based on your own behavior.

I would have them sky walker.

How's your aquarium, multiple aquariums?

Well, I had 20,000 gallon shock tank in the back yard.

Yeah.

Then I got a pool table with a school of piranha in there.

Really?

Yeah.

So you play pool and there's...

And there's piranha swimming around on you.

Is that distracting when you're trying to play pool?

Not for me, right?

Put some money down.

I'm going to win.

You're going to be worried about your legs.

I'm going to be chewing, moving balls and stuff.

This is as your love of...

You know what I feed them?

Feed your fish?

Yeah.

What?

The dudes that's trying to feed them.

They're your ass, you know.

I got to spend no money on no food.

They eat for weeks.

So you have to keep replacing the guy who feeds them, then, obviously.

Absolutely.

Ha-ha-ha.

Ha-ha-ha.

You're the voice of a fish and a new movie called Swaped.

Yeah, me and Michael B. Jordan is...

That's a good cast.

And they're with me.

Oh, that's fantastic.

Yeah, and she has a lot of Michael B. Jordan.

Really?

Yeah, yeah.

That's good.

How are your kids?

Are your kids good?

Yeah.

They're all healthy and they're doing well.

My son just graduated college.

My younger generation.

Yeah.

Connecticut.

You have your...

My daughter's doing great.

She does nothing but hundreds on her test and she's beautiful.

That's bad.

Yeah.

I'm going to cool that.

You might be the coolest dad.

The young.

You got to seize the moment.

Yeah, there you go.

And every day you get to be a cool dad.

Mom is always cool.

Mom is always cool.

She's the one.

But dad, you got to seize the moment.

It's like growing up.

My kids are all Harry Potter fans.

Now, I work with them.

Yeah.

Do they want to hang out with them?

Do they want to come to side with me?

Yeah.

Yeah.

So let's tell them to dump the garbage, make up your bed.

Watch your missions.

Yeah.

When you do that, you get to come to work with me.

That's fantastic.

Well, I mean, I will tell you, I got to work with you for years.

It's one of the best things on Earth.

And it's always great to have you here.

Thank you so much, Tracy.

Tracy Morgan, everybody.

And nobody likes him.

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