Seth Meyers gleefully reacts to Trump's White House Correspondents' Dinner roast

"You could both hear a pin drop and see people who looked like they'd just sat on a pin."
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Donald Trump may not have got many laughs during his White House Correspondents' Dinner speech, but he did provide the late night hosts with a good amount of material.

Jon Stewart already had a wonderful time breaking the event down on The Daily Show, and in the clip above Seth Meyers has just as much fun — drawing attention to the long, empty silence that met Trump waffling about his controversial $400 million White House ballroom.

"Oh my God, that room is so quiet," says Meyers. "Is the audience sitting behind four-inch glass? Until they showed a shot of the crowd I just assumed everybody had left to go take a closer look at the ballroom. You could both hear a pin drop and see people who looked like they'd just sat on a pin."

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