If the horrific battle over asylum-seeking families being separated at the border has taught us anything, it’s this: as Seth Meyers put it on Late Night’s “A Closer Look” Wednesday night, “[Donald] Trump’s only political skill is his total and complete lack of shame.” The president’s “malignant narcissism,” the comedian said, allows him to lie in a way that other politicians would not dare attempt—which has come in handy as the president continues his attacks on families seeking refuge and, in many cases, an escape from violence in their home countries.

On Wednesday, the president signed an executive order that purports to halt family separation by detaining families together indefinitely, assuming the administration is able to clear a legal path to do so. (Right now, it is illegal to detain a migrant child for more than 20 days; meanwhile, the administration has no clear plan to reunite the already-separated children with their parents.) Although the president made much ado of his executive order, Meyers, like most late-night comedians was unimpressed.

“Let’s be clear about one thing,” Meyers said. “You don’t get credit for solving a problem when you’re the one who created the problem.”

“The through-line of Trump’s political career is blindly clear,” Meyers added. “He concocts racist lies and uses dehumanizing language to justify cruelty towards immigrants and outsiders. It wasn’t an accident; it wasn’t a law; it was a choice by Trump and his supporters. . . . Something you hear a lot on days like today or days like yesterday is, ‘This is not who we are.’ But it is who we are right now. It might change tomorrow or the day after that, but today we are this. And you personally may not be this, but who we are is too often decided by those in power, which is why you vote. So remember, if you want who we are to match who you are, you have to get up early and vote next chance you have.”

Like Meyers, Stephen Colbert refused to play into the way Trump framed his executive order. “Here’s the thing,” the Late Show host said. “Trump made it a big signing ceremony to make it look like he did something good instead of admitting he was just ending the evil thing he started. That’s like wanting credit for solving the crimes you committed.”