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President Donald Trump coined the term "Spygate" to refer to a conspiracy theory that the FBI spied on his 2016 presidential campaign under the Obama Administration.

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00:00We now call it Spygate. You're calling it Spygate.

00:03You spell it like spaghetti.

00:06On Wednesday, President Donald Trump coined the term

00:08Spygate to refer to a conspiracy theory that the FBI spied on his 2016

00:12presidential campaign under the Obama administration.

00:15Just hours later, the late night host shared their thoughts on the unsubstantiated

00:18claims and Trump's name choice for the so-called conspiracy.

00:21On NBC's late night, Seth Meyers brought up Spygate during his monologue,

00:25joking that he wasn't even sure the word denoted a conspiracy theory.

00:28Knowing Trump, that might just be how he spells spaghetti, the host pointed out.

00:32Meyers also devoted his daily Closer Look segment in part to the president's

00:36early Wednesday morning tweetstorm about his conspiracy theory and Robert Mueller's

00:40special investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

00:43Speaking after a clip of the president proclaiming that the administration

00:46is calling his theory Spygate, Meyers joked,

00:49you're the only one calling it Spygate.

00:51Trump's like a guy who tries to give himself a new nickname and pretends it's catching on.

00:55I'm Donald Trump, but everyone calls me D-Trizzy.

00:58He added,

00:59It would be scary if it weren't so transparent.

01:02Trump's only move is to do to the FBI what the FBI is doing to him.

01:05He's like a drunk Eagles fan screaming at the cops,

01:08I'm under arrest? No, you're under arrest!

01:11Stephen Colbert also took on the president's claims that a spy was planted

01:15into his campaign for political purposes, reading the tweets to his audience in his Trump voice.

01:19Dot, dot, follow the money, the spy was there early in the campaign and yet never reported

01:25collusion with Russia because there was no collusion.

01:27He then joked,

01:28yes, follow Trump down the rabbit hole here.

01:30They embedded a spy early on and paid him massive sums of money to sabotage the Trump campaign

01:34with false claims of Russian collusion in the press to help Hillary Clinton.

01:38And then, and here's the insidious part, they didn't tell the press and Hillary Clinton lost.

01:44Colbert continued his mocking of the president and spygate conspiracy theory by pointing out

01:48what may have been the end game.

01:50So when Trump revealed this plot, he would seem like a desperate criminal spinning conspiracy theories

01:55to stop the walls from closing in.

01:58Over on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live, Kimmel noted that Trump followed up the spygate tweet

02:02with the witch hunt line he's used multiple times before on Twitter.

02:05Donald Trump tweets like the Hulk speaks, Kimmel joked.

02:08The host then addressed the president's request to his Twitter followers to follow the money, quipping,

02:13which is a line from the movie All the President's Men and is also the way Trump gets women into his bedroom.

02:18Come on, you know what that joke was about.

02:20Meanwhile on NBC's Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon kicked off his monologue talking about the speculative tweets.

02:25Trump was like, this one goes all the way to the top.

02:28And people were like, you are the top. So that starts.

02:32Fallon continued, he called it one of the biggest scandals in history.

02:35Then Mike Pence fed him a warm bottle of Diet Coke, burped him and rubbed his back until he fell back to sleep.

02:40And when it comes to that claim about how huge the scandal is, Fallon noted,

02:45Then Hillary was like, I can think of a bigger one.

02:47To watch full clips of late night hosts poking fun at spygate, head to THR.com.

02:52For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Lyndsey Rodrigues.

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