Seth Meyers doesn’t buy President Trump’s excuse for sending federal troops into Washington, D.C.

Although Trump claimed on Monday that crime in the nation’s capital had grown so severe it warranted his emergency intervention, Meyers believes Trump’s plan to build a ballroom at the White House undermines his whole argument.

“That’s how you know Trump’s bulls--t,” Meyers said in his Monday monologue.

Meyers showed a clip of Trump declaring that crime in D.C. had grown worse than the crime in Latin American cities like Mexico City or Bogotá, Columbia.

Breaking into a Trump impression, Meyers joked, “We’re going to build a beautiful ballroom, gold inlays, crystal chandeliers, Corinthian columns... Moving on: right outside these doors is a crime-scape the likes of which we’ve never see

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