{"id":36731,"date":"2020-09-21T03:38:09","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T03:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=36731"},"modified":"2020-09-21T03:38:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T03:38:09","slug":"seth-meyers-savages-soulless-trump-for-discounting-coronavirus-deaths-in-blue-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=36731","title":{"rendered":"Seth Meyers savages &#8216;soulless&#8217; Trump for discounting coronavirus deaths in &#8216;blue states&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Seth Meyers savages &#39;soulless&#39; Trump for discounting coronavirus deaths in &#39;blue states&#39;\" src=\"https:\/\/mondrian.mashable.com\/lead-img-seth-meyers-trump-coronavirus-blue-states.png\" \/> <\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-template=\"viralvideo - YT\" data-ytchannel=\"Late Night with Seth Meyers\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rZEFY9Ke-dk?enablejsapi=1&#038;\" width=\"640\"> <\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Seth Meyers <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/video\/seth-meyers-donald-trump-bob-woodward-coronavirus\/?utm_campaign&#038;utm_context=textlink&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_source\">hasn&#8217;t<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/video\/seth-meyers-donald-trump-delay-election\/?utm_campaign&#038;utm_context=textlink&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_source\">exactly<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/video\/seth-meyers-donald-trump-coronavirus-national-testing-plan\/?utm_campaign&#038;utm_context=textlink&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_source\">gone<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/video\/seth-meyers-donald-trump-town-hall-coronavirus\/?utm_campaign&#038;utm_context=textlink&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_source\">easy<\/a> on Trump during the course of his presidency, or over his lethally poor handled in the coronavirus pandemic. But this week&#8217;s news cycle triggered one of his harshest Closer Looks in a while. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to revelations that the government considered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-54187961\">using a &#8220;heat ray&#8221; on peaceful protesters<\/a> in Washington D.C. earlier this year and that attorney-general Bill Barr wants to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/09\/16\/us\/politics\/william-barr-sedition.html\">charge protesters with sedition<\/a>, we&#8217;ve learned that Trump wants to <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/trump-called-demented-blaming-blue-states-coronavirus-death\/story?id=73073793\">discount the coronavirus deaths of thousands of people in Democratic-run metropolis and &#8216;blue&#8217; commonwealths<\/a> to build his administration&#8217;s disastrous response to the crisis look less disastrous. <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/video\/seth-meyers-trump-coronavirus-blue-states\/\">Read more &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/late-night-with-seth-meyers\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&#038;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Late Night With Seth Meyers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/trump-coronavirus\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&#038;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Trump Coronavirus<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/culture\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&#038;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Culture<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/talk-show\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&#038;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Talk Show<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/politics\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&#038;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Politics<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href='https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?iu=\/4585\/mash.to\/rss&#038;pos=atf&#038;tag=ad&#038;mtype=standard&#038;type=rss&#038;sz=300x250&#038;c=1600415635' target='_blank'> <img src='https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?iu=\/4585\/mash.to\/rss&#038;pos=atf&#038;tag=ad&#038;mtype=standard&#038;type=rss&#038;sz=300x250&#038;c=1600415635'><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/GEhz_Vyi49o\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.mashable.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~3\/GEhz_Vyi49o\/\">feeds.mashable.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seth Meyers hasn&#8217;t exactly gone easy on Trump during the course of his presidency, or over his lethally poor handled in the coronavirus pandemic. But this week&#8217;s news cycle triggered one of his harshest Closer Looks in a while. In addition to revelations that the government considered using a &#8220;heat ray&#8221; on peaceful protesters in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2677,1041,20410],"class_list":["post-36731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-culture","tag-politics","tag-talk-show"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2020%252F09%252F18%252F0e%252Ffa352cc914a64225b3e3b323574ea46f.1cc42%252F1200x6301600659490.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}