Meyers to Trump: Your Plans Are Only Possible If You Played as a President in a TV Series

‘Let’s be honest, TV is the perfect place to accomplish all you want to do with your presidency, because a lot of what you want to do is impossible in the real world’

MEYERS: "I wanted to announce here for the first time, on our show, to Donald Trump, if you drop out of the presidential race any time between now and the beginning of the GOP convention on July 18th, NBC will award you a 13-episode scripted series where you would play the President of the United States of America. You hear that? Donald. You'd still get to be President of the United States, but on TV. Now I want to be clear, I have not run this by anyone at the network. But they put our show on the air every night, so I can't imagine they're gonna say no to yours. They're not picky. This series would begin next January, coinciding with the inauguration of our next actual, real president, and Donald, you can make the show whatever you want. If you want to be a heroic president in a "West Wing"-style drama, that's fine. If you want it to be a comedy in the style of "Seinfeld," that's great, too. You will have access to all of our top writers to help you craft this series. Tremendous writers, with the biggest brains, from all the top schools. And let's be honest, TV is the perfect place to accomplish all you want to do with your presidency, because a lot of what you want to do is impossible in the real world."

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