Most people do not even think about whether they are cognitively impaired or not. It is only those who fear that there is a problem who may obsess about it. Seth Meyers looks at the way that Trump keeps boasting about the results of his ‘cognitive test’, a test that is not used to test how smart you are, as Trump seems to think, but to see if you are showing signs of dementia. (Note that he took this test back in 2018 and it was administered by his then White House personal physician Ronny Jackson who subsequently resigned amid allegations of misconduct and is now running for a Texas congressional seat on an ardently pro-Trump platform.)

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Two men who look like surfer dudes try to hand out free masks to people in Huntington Beach, CA who were not wearing them. Hilarity ensures, except that what it reveals about people’s beliefs is not funny. It is quite extraordinary the kinds of reasons people give for not wearing masks.

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Seth Meyers says that the US is experiencing a confluence of bad events triggered by the pandemic while at the same time its leadership is utterly incapable and unwilling to take the measures to deal with it.

Samantha Bee takes a close look at the absurd claims being made by anti-mask zealots that include conspiracy theories.

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Seth Meyers is back from a break and he does not pull his punches about the way Trump, his administration, and his Republican enablers have completely lost the plot on dealing with the crisis.