In the week since Donald Trump’s election, plenty of people have urged the public to give Trump a “fresh start”—an opportunity to prove that all of his hateful campaign rhetoric and harrowing promises were empty words, rather than his actual intentions. That’s all well and good, but as Seth Meyers noted on Monday’s Late Night, Trump has a little more ground to make up than someone who ate a cupcake while on a diet. And if we were talking about a one-chance deal, he already blew it.

“Many in the media are doing everything they can to delude themselves and the nation into thinking this is a normal situation,” Meyers said. “That Trump’s behavior and campaign promises don’t pose a unique threat to fundamental American principles and norms. But fine. If they’re so eager to see if Donald Trump, a 70-year-old billionaire, can suddenly change for the better, let’s give him this fresh start and see if he can surprise us.”

It was then that Meyers cut to a news clip discussing one of Trump’s first appointments: Breitbart executive chairman Steve Bannon, a new White House strategist. For those who are unfamiliar, Breitbart is an alt-right news site that has published such headlines as “The Solution to Online ‘Harassment’ Is Simple: Women Should Log Off” and “World Health Organization Report: Trannies 49 Xs Higher HIV Rate.”

“Well, we gave him a chance,” Meyers said. “Bye, chance, thanks for stopping by!”

Bannon often gets labeled “controversial,” but that could easily be seen as an understatement: Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke celebrated Trump’s decision to appoint Bannon, along with other white nationalists, who take it as a sign that Trump will deliver on the same platform many Democrats hope he’ll back away from.

“[Bannon is] not ‘controversial,’ ” Meyers said. “He’s a white nationalist and an anti-Semite. Don’t talk about him like he’s pineapple on pizza.”

Meyers is far from the only guy on TV who refuses to normalize Trump. The list also includes John Oliver, who said on Sunday, “Optimism is nice if you can swing it, but you’ve got to be careful. Because it can feed into the normalization of Donald Trump. And he is not normal. He’s abnormal. He’s a human ‘What is wrong with this picture.’ ”

As for whether G.O.P. leadership will act as a check against Trump’s impulses, maybe don’t get your hopes up. As Meyers noted, House Speaker Paul Ryan said he has “no concerns” about Bannon, since he doesn’t know him. As Meyers said, though, “I never met John Wilkes Booth—but I let his past work inform my opinion of him.”

Or, as Samantha Bee put it on Full Frontal, “I don’t know him? You don’t ‘I don't know her’ Steve Bannon. ‘I don't know her’ is for pop stars you're jealous of, not white nationalists.”