Seth Meyers blows up claims that Trump is ‘pro-choice’

Seth Meyers questions Donald Trump’s apparent flip-flopping over abortion laws and reacts to claims by a radio host that Mr Trump is the “pro-choice candidate” for leaving it up to the states.

The Late Night host ridiculed Mr Trump for trying to convince voters he is “moderate” on the subject of abortion, despite infamously taking credit for overturning Roe v Wade, a ruling that has now led to Arizona outlawing almost all abortions in the state.

Meyers ran clips of Mr Trump back in October 2016 going on record that he was pro-life and would be appointing pro-life judges, alongside a snippet of him in 2023 appearing to be proud of Roe v Wade by giving back “rights” to pro-lifers.

“Roe v Wade; I did something that nobody thought was possible,” the former president said in 2023. “It was terminated and put back to the states, now people, pro-lifers, have the right to negotiate for the first time they had no rights at all.”

Mr Trump has stated that the power of abortion rights should be determined by each state, yet Meyers pointed out what Mr Trump now had to say after Arizona’s supreme court upheld a near-total abortion ban this week in the state that rests on a law from 158 years ago.

In a more recent clip ofMr Trump getting off his Trump-emblazoned plane on Wednesday, a reporter asked him if Arizona went too far with their abortion ban that is upheld on a Civil War-era law.

“Yeah, they did,” Mr Trump replied. “That’ll be straightened out, as you know, it’s all about states’ rights, it’ll be straightened out.”

“You did get to clog the toilet at a party and then say, ‘I think we can all agree someone else will fix it’,” Meyers exclaimed, adding in the show that he thinks Mr Trump is trying to “trick everyone” into thinking