Michael Moore Explains How He Knew Trump Would Win, Makes New Prediction

Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore joined Late Night With Seth Meyers on Wednesday for the first time since predicting a Donald Trump victory when on the show in August. Though to many it seemed unlikely at the time, Moore said that Trump would win the election and that it would come down to four states: Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Moore returned to Late Night and explained how he knew Trump would win, and, since his last seemingly impossible prediction came true, he made a couple of more for the future.

To Moore, it came down to Trump’s “Make America Great Again” hats. Moore thought the fact that Trump showed up at cities in the middle of the country wearing a hat helped people from those areas connect with him on some level because, as Moore put it, people in those areas wear ball caps.

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Moore’s first prediction was more of a joke, saying that Trump might quit now that he’s found out how much work being president is. He compared it to somebody on his first day at a new job who quickly realizes he’d taken the wrong job. His second prediction was about the Electoral College and how the electors have the right to not vote for Trump.

“Anything can happen,” Moore said, adding, “The first elector announced in the Times yesterday — a Republican from Texas, he is not gonna vote for Trump even though he was supposed to. We only need, I don’t know, 32 more to say the same thing.”

Meyers joked that there would be only the one. Moore countered by telling Meyers not to have him back on next week after there’s five. Since the interview was recorded, a second elector from Texas has said he will also not vote for Trump.

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