Late-night hosts covered Trump ‘freaking out’ over a possible recession and his attempts to shift blame over the economy

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Late-night hosts discussed the possibility of an impending recession and how Donald Trump is already trying to shift blame.

Seth Meyers: ‘Sounds like a month’s worth of Jeopardy categories’

On Late Night, Seth Meyers said that Trump was “freaking out” about the suggestion of a recession after the Dow plunged 800 points earlier this week.

He also spoke about a report this week that claimed that in his time as president, Trump has made 12,019 false or misleading claims. “I would say that lying for him is as natural as breathing but he’s not great at breathing either,” Meyers said before showing footage of Trump’s breathing issues.

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The sheer amount of untruths mean that Trump lies once every three hours, on average. “That means he has to wake up in the middle of the night just to make sure he can get his lies in,” Meyers joked before suggesting that he wears a Fitbit for lies – a “Fib-bit”.

During a speech this week about energy, Trump managed to veer off into a wild number of other topics, including his 2016 victory, Hillary Clinton and his many lawsuits. “That sounded like a month’s worth of Jeopardy categories,” Meyers said after listing them all.

Trump also managed to take credit for a large new Shell plant despite the fact it was arranged during Obama’s time in office. “You know I killed Osama bin Laden,” Meyers joked in the voice of Trump.

Stephen Colbert: ‘Those masters of economic strategy – newspapers’

On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert spoke about a petition to rename a block in New York President Barack Obama Avenue. “Whenever a car tries to turn left, it will be blocked by Mitch McConnell,” he joked.

One of the reasons this particular stretch (Fifth Avenue between 56th and 57th Streets) has been singled out is because Trump Tower is situated there. The woman who started the petition, which has so far garnered over 300,000 names, has said that she only did it as a joke. “Careful, some things that start as a joke end up as president,” he warned.

Colbert also spoke about Trump’s attempts to blame-shift with regards to a potential recession. In a tweet this week, he suggested that the “Fake News Media” wanted it to happen.

“This is all a plot by those masters of economic strategy: newspapers,” Colbert said. “They want a recession so more people will buy the Sunday edition to use as a blanket.”

Jimmy Fallon: ‘Not true – I have Eric and Don Jr’

On The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon also spoke about a possible recession. “I’m not saying the economy’s in trouble but right now, giving money to John Hickenlooper’s presidential campaign is a better investment,” he said.

He joked that a graph of the stock market “looked like a heart monitor before you buy Olive Garden’s lifetime pasta pass and after you buy Olive Garden’s lifetime pasta pass”.

Trump’s opponents are concerned that he doesn’t have the tools to deal with economic downfall. In character, Fallon joked: “Not true, I have Eric and Don Jr.”