Following Donald Trump’s pull of funding to Harvard University, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced on Sunday that he and several colleagues opposed the move by sending Trump “a very strong letter.” The move drew wide mockery almost immediately, including from Seth Meyers on Monday night.

The NBC host largely argued that sending a letter would likely have no effect at all — assuming Trump even actually reads it.

“Is this a constitutional crisis or Jane Austen novel? The guy doesn’t even read his presidential daily briefing, you think he’s sitting by the mailbox waiting for a letter from Chuck Schumer?” Meyers joked. “If your neighbor is blasting house music at 2 a.m., you don’t write him a letter. You pound on the f–king wall ’til he stops.”

According to Schumer, the letter included eight “very strong” questions for the president. Meyers scoffed at that, imitating...