-A judge in one of Donald Trump's criminal cases
related to the January 6th coup attempt
has reinstated a partial gag order,
while a judge in Trump's civil fraud trial
has ordered his daughter Ivanka to testify.
And on top of that, Trump is apparently confused
as to why so many of his ex-lawyers
are suddenly pleading guilty in Georgia.
For more on this, it's time for "A Closer Look."
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There's something we have to discuss,
and it's not comfortable, but it's reality.
A man who is once again running for president
and could once again hold
the most powerful office in the world,
is very obviously in cognitive decline.
I don't like saying it, but we have to face the facts.
And again, I know you don't expect to hear this from me,
so you can watch the evidence for yourself.
-Donald Trump just gave a speech today
in which he warmly praised Viktor Orbán,
not as the leader of Hungary but as the leader of Turkey.
Viktor Orbán is not the leader of Turkey.
-You know, I was very honored.
There's a man, Viktor Orbán.
Did anyone ever hear of him?
He's probably, like, one of the strongest leaders
anywhere in the world. And he -- he's the leader of --
right? -- He's the leader of Turkey.
Fronts on both Russia...
-Trump yesterday incorrectly said
Hungary shares a border with Russia.
-Now, you have voter I.D. to buy a loaf of bread.
You have -- You have I.D. to buy a loaf of bread.
-He made a number of, shall we say, verbal missteps,
suggesting that he was running against Barack Obama.
-And we did with Obama. We won an election
that everyone said couldn't be won.
-He appeared to forget which state he was in,
saying he was in Sioux Falls,
which is located in South Dakota,
while he was actually speaking from Sioux City, Iowa.
-You know how you spell "us," right?
You spell "us" U-S. [ Cheers and applause ]
I just picked that up.
Has anyone ever thought of that bef--
I just picked that up a couple of days.
I'm reading and it said "us," and I said, "You know,
if you think about it, 'us' equals "U.S."
Their windmills are causing whales to die
in numbers never seen before.
The windmills are driving them crazy.
They're driving -- They're driving the whales,
I think, a little batty. [ Laughter ]
-Well, normally, you'd have to stay
until after the credits to get a blooper reel that long.
By the way, if anyone watching this was genuinely tricked
into thinking that I was talking about Joe Biden
when I was setting up that clip reel,
I'd just like to say the name of the show
is "Late Night with Seth Meyers,"
and I'm sorry you're currently stuck
in a dentist's waiting room.
"Aw, first, I chip my tooth,
then I fall for a classic misdirect!"
Now, Trump's brain has obviously been mush for quite some time,
but still, somehow, it seems noticeably worse.
And I didn't think that was possible.
Over the weekend, for example,
he apparently did not know which city or state he was in
and had to be corrected onstage.
He seemed to think he was in Sioux Falls,
which is in South Dakota,
rather than where he actually was -- Sioux City, Iowa.
But don't worry, you guys.
Once he was corrected, he was super smooth about it.
-A very big hello to a place where we've done very well --
Sioux Falls.
Thank you very much, Sioux Falls.
-Donald J. Trump. [ Cheers and applause ]
-So, Sioux City, let me ask you,
how many people come --
How many people come from Sioux City?
How many people? [ Crowd cheers ]
Huh?
How many?
Who doesn't come from Sioux City?
[ Crowd cheers ]
-Nice save, dude. [ Laughter ]
As soon as someone told him he was wrong,
he came back to the mic and said the words
"Sioux City" as many times as he possibly could.
"Sioux City -- we love Sioux City.
And what -- what better time to be in Sioux City
than the fall? Nothing beats Sioux City Falls,
or as I call them, Sioux Falls.
So as you can see, earlier, that was not a mistake.
It was an abbreviation.
Also, if you're not buying that,
a quick hello to my friend in the front row, Sue Falls.
We call her that because she trips a lot,
and also it's her given name.
You know how you spell Su, right?
You spell it S-U. And if you spell it backwards,
that's..." -U.S.
[ Laughter and applause ] "I was just reading --
I was just reading a book upside down
and picked that up."
Also, I like Trump's reaction
to finding out that he was wrong.
He reacts to finding out
he's in a completely different city and state
the way you react when a 5-year-old
tells you the human head weighs 10 pounds.
"Oh, is that right? Very good, Timmy.
Now go play with some Legos. What's that?
Oh, it's 'Lego bricks.' Is that right?
Well, that's not irritating at all."
[ Laughter ]
It's also telling how different the reactions are
when Biden screws up, versus when Trump screws up.
When Biden so much as stumbles. Democrats everywhere are like,
"Oh, [Bleep], oh, [Bleep], we're totally [Bleep]!
Who else can we get? Oh, [Bleep] there's nobody."
And when Trump screws up, Republicans are like,
"Alright, we live in Sioux Falls now.
Who cares? When Trump's president,
he's going to rename it on a map with a Sharpie."
[ Laughter ]
But the thing I especially love about this moment
is that, apparently, Trump basically predicted that
at a rally in 2020, except he predicted it
about Joe Biden. -Do you ever notice
that Biden oftentimes gets the state wrong?
He's in Iowa, and he says, "It's good to be in Idaho."
No, no, you're in Iowa. He's in New Hampshire,
and he says, "It's great to be in Ohio."
No, no, no, you're in New Hampshire.
That happens to him all the time.
Hasn't happened to me yet.
-Whew. [ Laughter ]
That "yet" was doing an awful lot of work, wasn't it?
Although my favorite part of that clip is what he says next.
-You know, when that happens,
there's nothing you can do to make up for it.
You might as well just walk off the stage,
because the speech is a disaster.
-"Walk off the stage.
You should definitely walk off the stage
and not immediately come back to the microphone
and say 'Sioux City' as many times as you can.
Because when you do that,
people will definitely be able to tell."
In fact, this is apparently
a common routine at Trump speeches.
Here's another example. -He does it all the time.
Nobody calls him for it.
"I love the state of Iowa."
"Sir, sir, it's Idaho.
It's Idaho."
And the worst is when he's in, like, Indiana,
and he says it's great to be with the people of Florida,
and you have palm trees all over the place."
-"Anyway, it's been great to be here,
wherever the [Bleep] this was."
[ Laughter ]
And, look, I'm not gonna sit here and deny
that Biden also stumbles or gets lost sometimes.
He's 80. We get it. The point is, they're both old.
We all just age in different ways.
When I get to that age,
I'd definitely rather be Biden old
than Trump old, just telling long stories
and crushing people's hands with my blue-collar handshake.
You know what you have to be
to be able to fall off a bike at 79?
Willing to ride one in the first place.
I want to be walking around my kitchen,
muttering to my grandkids
about how I used to know a guy named Corn Pop.
That seems much more pleasant than screaming nonstop
about windmills, killing whales, and celebrities
who were or weren't nice to me, back in the day.
"You know, I used to be on 'Saturday Night Live.'
Not many people remember, but it's true.
They called it 'SNL' for short. I just picked that up."
[ Laughter ] They can't admit it publicly,
but Trump's aides must quietly be so happy
he's under multiple gag orders in different cases,
one of which was just reinstated Sunday night
for his election interference case in D.C.
-Now to the latest
in the federal election interference case against Trump.
This is the one brought by special counsel Jack Smith.
The gag order in that one, on former President Trump,
has been reinstated
after U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan
lifted a temporary hold yesterday.
-And he's already under a gag order in New York.
This is just a reminder to the GOP
that when someone says to the front-runner
for your party's nomination,
"The gag order has been reinstated,"
his response is very likely,
"Which one? Sioux Falls or Sioux City?"
And while the case in D.C. continues to get worse for him,
his ex-lawyers continue to fall like dominoes
in the Georgia case, where he and his co-defendants
were charged with trying to overturn
the election results there.
Several of them have pleaded guilty
and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors,
and a spokesperson for Trump said Trump couldn't understand
why so many of his ex-lawyers were flipping on him.
-How does the president feel about these former lawyers
or his former associates pleading guilty?
What are his thoughts on these developments?
-Well, I think he's a little confused,
because, look, if you're a lawyer,
you know that there's no crimes here.
According to the law,
there's literally nothing to plead guilty to.
-I assure you, they are very much pleading guilty.
It's not like they all walked into court
and said, "Your Honor, I plead guilty."
And then the judge was like, "Plead guilty to what?"
and they were like, "I don't know,"
and the judge was like, "Me neither.
I don't even know where we are.
All I know, there are so many lawyers here,
you might as well call this place..."
-Sioux City. -And then, on top of all that,
there's also the civil fraud trial in New York,
where Trump is at risk of losing his business empire.
Trump's former fixer, Michael Cohen,
has already testified against him.
And now the judge has ruled that Trump's daughter Ivanka
will have to testify, as well.
-There's a new development to tell you about
in the $250 million civil trial
against ex-President Donald Trump
and his company and his family.
Today, Judge Engoron ruled that the former president's daughter
Ivanka does have to testify in this case.
-You know, Trump is freaked out about Ivanka having to testify,
because she seems like she might actually know [Bleep].
I have to believe she's the only child
Trump trusted to do actual business.
Ivanka was crunching numbers
while Eric was covering his face in Rogaine,
and Don Jr. was out sitting on that stump.
Ivanka taking the stand is bad for Trump
because she's the only one who can actually stand.
I mean, look at this.
She's the only one with anything close to normal posture.
Why do the rest of them -- They all stand like they forgot
to take the hanger out of their shirts.
They all look like they're trying to hide something
under their jackets, like they're trying
to sneak out of a grocery store with a...
-Loaf of bread.
-But in spite of everything, this guy remains
the far-and-away front-runner for the GOP nomination in 2024.
And he's in a dead heat with Biden
in a hypothetical general-election matchup.
They say you can indict a ham sandwich,
but once you've been indicted four times,
I think you're less like a ham and more like a...
-Turkey. -This...
[ Laughter ]
Turkey. This has been "A Closer Look."
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