Kelly Lawler

USA TODAY

Seth Meyers is having a really good day.

The comedian has broken through the late night pack thanks to his "A Closer Look" segment, which has of late been devoted to meticulous slams of GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump. And on Monday night he spent nine minutes taunting the nominee.

Meyers took a closer look at this weekend's New York Times report that Trump declared a $916 million loss on his 1995 income — a deduction that may have allowed him to legally avoid paying federal income taxes for up to 18 years.

“Here’s why this latest revelation is damning,” Meyers said, after airing a clip of Trump surrogate Rudy Giuliani trying to spin the story as a positive. “First of all, there’s the fact that Trump has consistently sold himself as a brilliant business man who could use those skills to fix the economy. But as we found out this week, as Trump got richer over those 18 years, his investors saw their money disappear. Normally to get that screwed you have to actually go into the casino."

OK, Seth Meyers, tell us what you *really* think about Trump

Meyers took his criticism one step further, suggesting that since the candidate still refuses to release his current tax returns — a standard practice of presidential candidates from both parties — he may be hiding something.

“I think you’re poor,” he said with a knowing smile. “I think you pretend to be rich, but you’ve been going town to town for 18 months selling cheap hats. And you know what else I think? I think you’re only up at 3:00 in the morning because you have a second job answering customer service calls from India.”

"And I think you want to live at the White House,” he added, “because you heard the previous lady who lived there had a garden and you want free tomatoes.”

The final dig? Meyers suggested that Trump might be "panicking" and sent the returns to the Times​ to torpedo his own campaign.

Watch the full segment above.