All hell is breaking loose as the entire world is protesting the Trump regime. There you saw the people of Albania. Five days in a row of protests. tens of thousands of people and they are not playing around protesting Jared Kushner and Ivanka trying to seize control over a protected island in Albania and convert it into some weird billiondoll Trump and Steen Island for right-wing oligarchs.
The people of Albania are not having it. You see how angry they are there? They’re taking to the streets again today. They are not going to stop. Shout out to all the Albanians. And shout out to all the people in Bgrade, all the people in Australia. Elbows up in Canada. Across the world, we’re seeing the people rise up against the Trump regime and what the Trump regime has turned the United States of America into.
But it’s not just at the power to the people level. We’re now seeing >> my favorite moments randomly in in hosting the show was um I saw a um was it what do they call them? Do they call them a truth social? That that like fake Twitter that no one even the right-wingers aren’t on really a truth right? I don’t know what it is. Anyway, >> a what? No, it’s like a it’s called truth social, I think. No one cares.
Anyway, the point is [laughter] the point is Trump sent out one of his thingies. I don’t know what they called. And um it said it was like um uh Trevor Noah was never funny. John Stewart was only slightly better. Um and then like he goes on like a rant and he’s just like these people don’t realize if they moved more to the center like me they would have more more followers.
Then I’m like center like you. I’m like my man you think you’re in the middle? [laughter] But what was funny was like someone was like, “Oh, he said that that you you’re not funny.” And and I was like, “Yeah, I read that.” But I was like, “Oh, so you watching [cheering] [applause] Trevor Noah destroyed Donald Trump and Melania Trump on live television.
And what Donald Trump just did in the last 24 hours has shocked the entire country. The president of the United States got booed Monday night at Madison Square Garden in his own hometown by his own hometown crowd at his own team’s NBA Finals game in such a thunderous chorus that every news network in America carried the footage by Tuesday morning.
The day before that on Sunday, the president stormed off NBC’s Meet the Press in the middle of an interview after the host Kristen Welker asked him a single question he didn’t want to answer. He called her either crooked or stupid, crushed his lapel microphone under his foot, and walked out of the barn in Wisconsin where he had been recording.
The two biggest cultural moments of the last 48 hours, the president of the United States being publicly humiliated by tens of thousands of New Yorkers, and the president of the United States crushing a journalist’s microphone underfoot, both confirm something Trevor Noah told the country in plain comedy on a global broadcast stage just four months ago.
We’re going to walk through every piece of this in detail because the corporate media won’t connect the dots. And when you see how Trevor’s roasts at the 2026 Grammys connect to the Madison Square Garden booze and the Meet the Press storm out, you’ll understand why Donald Trump has been losing his mind ever since.
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Monday night, June 8th, 2026, Donald Trump walked into Madison Square Garden to attend game three of the NBA Finals between his hometown New York Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs. He became the first sitting president of the United States ever to attend an NBA Finals game. Nick’s owner, James Dolan, a longtime friend who has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Trump’s presidential campaigns, hosted him in the executive suite.
With Trump were cabinet secretaries Lee Zelden, Shawn Duffy, and Doug Bergam, plus White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavenino, personal adviser Boris Epstein, special envoy Jared Kushner, and granddaughter Kai Trump. The NYPD had set up a security perimeter that closed 8th Avenue and stretched several blocks.
The Secret Service deployed counter drone technology. Fans waited two hours in airport style security lines. Watch parties that had been planned for outside the arena were cancelled because of Trump’s presence. Tens of thousands of fans were inconvenienced for one man’s vanity trip. When Trump’s face appeared on the jumbotron during the national anthem, the response from the crowd was, in Al Jazer’s exact reporting, thunderous booing, audible, sustained, loud enough to be captured on every broadcast camera in the building. The president smiled
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through it, saluted through it. Then the Jumbotron cut to Knicks star Jaylen Brunson and the crowd erupted in cheers. The contrast was undeniable. After the game, which the Knicks lost 115 to 111, Republican Congress member Fitzpatrick literally used those words. I am going to work to try to kill this to make sure that this slush fund doesn’t exist.
And he told the Midas Touch Network, the Midas Touch Network has a whole DC bureau, as you know, on Capitol Hill. And here’s what Congress member Fitzpatrick, Republican from Pennsylvania, told our Pablo Monriquez earlier in the day. Let’s play this clip. >> Congressman, [clears throat] what do you make of this $ 1.
7 billion fund for? We’re going to try to kill it. >> You’re going to try and kill it. Wow. Okay. And how? >> Well, we’re considering legislative options. We’re going to write a letter uh to the AG to start, but we’re considering a legislative option. >> Okay. We’re trying to unpack exactly, you know, what the legal machinations are, but can’t do that.
>> Right. And have you ever heard of any other Americans like other than so Trump is an associates? >> I haven’t unuditable by the IRS. >> I’ve never heard that. >> Okay. So, would that be part of the legislative? >> Of course. Of course. Yeah. You can’t do that. >> Got it. Yeah. >> Appreciate it. >> And you know, we have reporters everywhere on Capitol Hill.
So then Fitzpatrick spoke with our head of our DC bureau, Scott McFarland. And here’s what Fitzpatrick told McFarland. Here, play this clip. Slush fund for crooks and riers is at risk of melting right here, right now at the capital. A key Republican here in the US House, Brian Fitzpatrick of Suburban Philadelphia, a frontline Republican, says he is keen on killing this thing.
His constituents do not like it. >> Are you going to sue Trevor Noah? last night in a post you alluded that something could be coming. >> Yeah. Well, he said that he said that I spent time on Jeffy’s Jeffrey Epstein’s Island. I didn’t I mean he’s a lightweight this guy. He’s a terrible I thought I think he’s terrible.
I thought he did a terrible job at the Grammys. I thought the whole Grammys was terrible. I watched part of it. It’s not watchable. But he was a lousy host. I’d say not as bad as Jimmy Kimmel, but pretty close. And no, he made a statement about me and Jeffrey Epstein’s. I have nothing to do with that.
have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epson. And in fact, if you look at the DOJ, they announced, you know, they released three million pages. It’s like this is all they’re supposed to be doing. And frankly, the DOJ, I think, should just say we have other things to do because that whole thing has turned out. I mean, other than Bill Clinton and, you know, Bill Gates and lots of people that have there are a lot of questions about it, but nothing on me.
>> Questions. One, where is the Apache? Do we have photos of this Apache with a Shahid drone lodged into it? That’d be kind of quite a photo. How did the shahid lodge itself into the Apache? Shahid drones are big. Uh, an Apache is big, but not that much bigger than a Shahed drone.
A Shahed drone is like the size of a Toyota Camry, maybe even a little bigger, right? An Apache is bigger than that. I don’t know. Think about an Apache as being the size of, I don’t know, maybe like two Escalades and a Shahin drone’s like the size of a Camry. I’ll give you more specifics. An Apache helicopter has a wingspan of 17 ft and a main body width of about 6 ft according to air arrow corner.
The Shahed 131 has a wingspan of 7.2 ft. And the 136 has a wingspan of 8.2 ft. So on the low end, a Shahed has a 7.2 ft wingspan. It’s big and you know and and it’s large as I said. It’s like a it’s like a Camry with wings. Its basis is is a little bit more thin than like a a Camry which is more bulky.
So how did the Shahid lodge itself just like let’s be objective about this. It lodged itself between the pilots. Now believe in the Apache the pilot sits in front of the other pilot. So if it came from the side boom think about the speed, right? So snapping their 13-game playoff winning streak, Trump told reporters it was, I think, mostly cheers.
It was loud and it was very enthusiastic. Mostly cheers. The cameras captured the booze. The audio captured the booze. Every news outlet confirmed the booze. The president said it was cheers. He smiled, saluted, and lied to reporters as he boarded Air Force One. That’s the reality distortion field Trevor Noah has been describing for 10 years.
And the day before that, Sunday, June 7th, 2026, NBC’s Meet the Press aired Donald Trump’s interview with host Kristen Welker. The interview had been taped Friday in a barn at Kuster Farms in Chipoa Falls, Wisconsin. Welker pressed Trump on his proposed $ 1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund that would have compensated convicted January 6th riers.
Welker pressed Trump on his repeated false claims that California’s primary elections were rigged. When she asked for evidence, Trump replied, “All I have to do is look.” “That’s not evidence,” Welker said. Trump exploded. “They’re crooked, just like you’re crooked, your press is crooked, and Meet the Press is crooked.
” He went after ABC, CBS, and CNN as one-sided crooked networks. Then he turned on Welker personally. “You’re either crooked or you’re stupid.” Welker held her composure. Trump removed his microphone. “Sorry, let’s call it quits because I’ve had enough. Thank you, darling. Have a good time.” Welker tried to talk him out of leaving.
Trump grumbled. I sat in the rain with you for an hour. Then he crushed his lapel microphone under his foot and stormed off the set. The president of the United States crushed a microphone because a journalist asked him for evidence. Two events, two days. Both confirming what Trevor Noah said at the Grammy Awards on February 1st, 2026, exactly 4 months ago.
Subscribe and share the video if you appreciate this kind of breakdown. Now to the Trevor Noah roast itself. February 1st, 2026, the 67th annual Grammy Awards at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. Trevor Noah was hosting for the sixth time his sixth straight year as the Grammys chosen master of ceremonies. The man has become in the years since The Daily Show one of the most reliable broadcast comedy voices in global music television.
He has six consecutive Grammy hosting gigs, a wildly successful Netflix stand-up career, a podcast that has been at the top of the Spotify charts, and an international tour that’s been playing arenas. He has nothing left to prove. And on Grammy night 2026, he decided to use his global stage to absolutely destroy Donald Trump and the Trump family in a series of jokes that landed so hard the president of the United States actually issued a written legal threat to sue him afterward.
And let me give you the Trevor Noah biography for context because it matters. He was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1984. He grew up under the final years of apartheid. His mother was black South African. His father was Swiss German. Under apartheid law, his very existence was technically illegal. Interracial relationships were criminalized.
He has talked in his Netflix specials and in his New York Times bestseller, Born a Crime, about growing up hidden, about the violence in his home from his stepfather, about the constant this clip for you right now. >> Out there military. Now, there’s some missiles left, but very few compared to what they had. >> And speaking of our military and Iran, I want to ask you about this report that you would only restart the conflict with Iran if they killed US troops.
Is that your red line for ending the ceasefire? >> If they killed >> US troops? >> What does that mean? that you would restart the war with Iran if they killed US troops. >> Well, it would be a good reason. I’ll be honest with you. Have they killed US troops? I think I would do that very quickly.
Yeah, that’s a very interesting question. >> So, you may be saying, “Come on, Ben. Why would Trump or Sentcom make up that an Apache helicopter was struck by a Shahid drone intentionally sent by Iran?” No, as I said, let me just give you the undisputed facts and this way you can decide for yourself. Trump and Sentcom yesterday morning put out statements to the press.
They went to state regime media which calls itself Fox and specifically uh Trey Youngst who’s the reporter now who Trump gives a lot of information to and Trump and Sentcom gave their version of events about what they claim happened with this Apache drone. And here’s how they describe it. They say the Apache drone had two pilots.
It was flying low in the straight of Hormuz when a shahed drone struck the Apache and it lodged itself between the two pilots and the pilots had to very quickly make a maneuver. They were able to kind of bring the helicopter to a crash landing in the straight of Hormuz and they were able to get out. I guess they sprung out or jump out when it kind of had this crash landing that the Shahed drone, which are almost always armed with explosives, did not explode.
Very seldom have I looked at Trump and thought, “Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can relate to this.” But he came out after Israel was about to launch a fullscale bombing attack on Iran. And he came out, he heard about this man. Didn’t even put on a tie. Came out of the White House half-dressed, ran straight into reporters, and he went into it.
HE WAS LIKE, “I HEARD ABOUT WHAT IRAN IS DOING AND WHAT ISRAEL IS DOING.” AND LET ME TELL YOU, I’M ANGRY AT IRAN, BUT I’M MORE ANGRY AT ISRAEL. THEY SAID PEACE AND I SAID WE’RE GOING TO DO PEACE AND THEY’RE LAUNCHING AND I’M SICK OF THEM. ISRAEL, YOU BETTER NOT DO. YOU DON’T DO IT, ISRAEL. I SAID, “PEACE, YOU DON’T DO IT.
” HE LOOKED LIKE A DAD WHO HAD KIDS that were fighting in the backyard and he WAS JUST GOING BACK AND FORTH. HE’S JUST LIKE, “GRAZ, SHUT UP, BABY. COME UP. SHUT UP. SHUT UP.” HOW MANY TIMES I HAVE TO TELL YOU AGAIN THAT YOU’RE NOT GONNA I TELL YOU ONCE AND I’LL TELL YOU AGAIN. AND THEN HE LOOKED AT THE reporter and he did something I’ve never seen an American president do in my entire life.
HE CURSED LIVE ON TV INTO THE CAMERA. Looked at the camera and he was like, they were like, “What do you think, Mr. He’s like, I’ll tell you what this is. YOU’VE GOT TWO COUNTRIES THAT HAVE BEEN FED IN SO LONG. [screaming] THEY DON’T KNOW WHAT THE THEY doing >> and didn’t hit the pilot in the back or the pilot in the front.
That really doesn’t make any sense. And just so you know, I’m not making up the story. Let me show you how it was described by State Regime Media Fox when they said that Donald Trump desri and SenCom described it to them. Let’s play this clip. I want to start with a story. The president told me new details about the downing of this US Army Apache helicopter.
President Trump tells Fox News that the Iranian drone lodged in between the two pilots in this helicopter. They were flying very low. And at that point, the drone didn’t explode as it had intended to. And so these pilots were trying to take down the helicopter with the drone lodged into this into this gunship without it exploding.
And at any moment it could have exploded, the president told me. And he said it was on fire. There was a lot of heat inside the cockpit of this helicopter and ultimately these two pilots were able to take it down into the sea where ultimately they were rescued for the first time in US military history by an unmanned sea drone.
Now, President Trump also talked about the US strikes last night against Iranian radar systems and air defense sites. He said the Iranians had tried to rebuild during the ceasefire their defensive capabilities, but they were unable to stop these US strikes overnight and they were hammered by US fighter jets. Now, interestingly, President Trump told me that he is getting close to ordering new strikes against Iranian power plants and bridges because he says the Iranians are tapping the United States along when it comes to the negotiating process. He says the
bully of the Middle East >> fear of being recognized in public as a mixed child. He emerged from apartheid South Africa with a comedy career that took him through Africa then Europe then to the United States and eventually to the Daily Show in 2015 when John Stewart picked him as the successor. Noah when he took the Daily Show chair was a 31-year-old African comedian with a global audience but no real foothold in American political commentary.
He built that foothold over 7 years. He left in December 2022 when he had decided he wanted to do other things. Netflix specials, a Spotify podcast called What Now with Trevor Noah? An international stand-up tour, the Grammys hosting gig that has become his signature American TV appearance. He has, in other words, 10 times the cultural credibility and resilience of someone who has only been famous in one country for a short time.
He is genuinely global. He genuinely understands authoritarianism from the inside, having grown up under it. and he genuinely cannot be intimidated by Donald Trump. Noah opened with a Lauren Hill setup. Lauren Hill was performing at the Grammys for the first time since 1999. Noah looked at the camera.
“Do you understand how long ago that is?” he asked. Back in 1999, the president had had a sex scandal. People thought computers were about to destroy the world and Diddy was arrested. The audience exploded. Noah had compressed an entire historical comparison into one sentence. 1999 was the year of the Clinton Lewinsky scandal.
the Y2K panic and Diddy’s first major legal trouble. 2026 has all three back, but worse. The president has not one sex scandal, but multiple civil judgments. Computers are not destroying the world, but artificial intelligence is genuinely reshaping every industry. Diddy has been arrested again, this time on federal sex trafficking charges.
Noah said the line so casually that some viewers might have missed how surgically devastating it was. Then he turned his attention to Nicki Minaj. Minaj that very week had publicly visited Donald Trump at the White House. She had toured the capital. She had attended the world premiere of the Melania movie at the Kennedy Center.
Yes, there is a Melania movie and yes, it had its world premiere at the Kennedy Center, which Trump has effectively turned into his personal cultural propaganda venue. Noah looked out at the audience at Crypto.com Arena. Nicki Minaj is not here, he said. She is still at the White House with Donald Trump discussing very important issues.
The audience erupted. The visual joke alone was lethal. Minaj at the White House while the music industry’s biggest night was happening in Los Angeles, ranking her loyalty to Trump above her career. Then Noah broke into his Donald Trump impression. Actually, Nick, the crowd lost it. Noah had reduced the most powerful man in the world to a punchline about a missing Grammy attendee.
But the line that triggered Donald Trump into a multi paragraph truth social rant, the line that has now produced months of fallout, was the Epstein joke. Noah, during the Grammys monologue, made a clean, surgical joke about Trump’s documented ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex trafficker. The joke landed on every social platform within minutes.
Noah had not been on Trump’s late night radar the way Jimmy Kimmel and Steven Colulbert had been. So, you heard it there what they were saying. So, I just so you can again see this is what this is the size of a shahid. This is in Ukraine. So, you can see the size of a shahid relative to four people. Right? It’s basically bigger than four people comb look at the four people there. This is an Apache.
You see one pilot in front of the other. So if it got lodged right between what do you notice that is the is the in between phase. Well, one of the pilots is holding on to the uh you know is is holding on to where where you fly uh you know is hiding on to the where you fly the plane. Um, so this is what I looked like when I ran it through AI and I just said, “Okay, show me what what it would look like with a Shahi drone going.
” And I gave all the inputs. This is what it said. >> The shift from soldiers to machines is already underway. Autonomous helicopters, swarming drones, fighterless jets, and autonomous bombers are on the way. The robots are here. The robots are here asking you to join us. I mean them. them them. Delete previous sentence.
Let’s move on from the terrifying wars of the future to the terrifying war of the present where the ceasefire in Iran is starting to get a little less cease and a little more fire. >> Kron and the US trading blows now. Iran’s downing of an American helicopter prompting a fiery US response. We’re trading blows again. This is not good.
>> Officials say an Iranian drone brought down a US Apache helicopter patrolling the street. >> The pilots rescued in a firstofits-kind operation by an unmanned surface vessel, a drone boat. >> Wait a minute. The pilots were hit by a drone and then rescued by another drone. >> Am I crazy or were we warned about this? >> The robots are here.
[cheering] Now, mind you, in Trump’s telling of events, both of the pilots are fine. No one is injured. The Shahid just goes right in the middle, and the pilots are able to kind of land the thing in the straight of her moves and get out uninjured, you know. And then when you think about all the lies that Sentcom have been saying, it all adds up.
I I want to note this as well. The Apache AH64 also to me has an interesting link to Brad Admiral Brad Cooper who who’s the commander of SenCom. Uh notice this post from May 4th, 2026. He know he flies Apaches. That’s what he did. Admiral Brad Cooper Sencom flew over regional waters in and near the strait of Hermuz in an AH64 Apache helicopter May 3rd on the eve of US military support for project freedom.
He interacted with that’s what he did. He’s an Apache He’s an Apache helicop pilot before climbing the ranks. He knows how to fly the Apache. So if you start thinking about strange did an Apache story. How would you arrange this Apache story? I mean again maybe the Apache pilot and I’ll talk more about Brad Cooper in just a moment.
Now just to remind you um this is the message that Sentcom posted June 9th and they posted similar one June 10th. Sentcom forces began launching self-defense strikes against Iran at the commanderin-chief’s direction in response to the downing of an US Army Apache helicopter. This mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression.
And now we know SenCom lies about everything now. And sadly, Admiral Brad Cooper, who’s supposed to be someone who’s nonpartisan, has become like a MAGA clown. I hate to say that, but by the way, top level military folks who I know tell me that about Cooper, that that’s what they think about him now. Like they’re humiliated by his behavior.
So here’s what SenCom posted last night. claim Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claims the straight of Hormuza is closed. Truth commercial ships are continuing to the Trump White House had spent most of its second term focused on Kimmel and Colbert. Trevor Noah, who had left the Daily Show in December 2022 and was now doing stand-up specials and podcasts, had flown under Trump’s targeting.
The Epstein joke at the Grammys changed that overnight. Donald Trump watching the Grammys at the White House went absolutely nuclear. He posted a multi paragraph rant on Truth Social. He attacked Noah’s career. He attacked Noah’s appearance. He threatened to sue Noah for, in Trump’s exact wording, plenty dollars. Plenty dollars.
He told Noah on Truth Social, “Get ready, Noah. I’m going to have some fun with you.” White House communications director Steven Chung backed Trump up by posting that Trevor Noah is still a giant loser who will be forever known for being unceremoniously kicked off the Daily Show for being a complete psychopath only to be replaced by a rotating cast of even bigger snowflakes.
Steven Chung, the White House communications director, the man whose job is to communicate the policy positions of the United States government. Spending his Saturday night attacking a comedian for telling a joke about Jeffrey Epstein. That was the official response from the White House communications shop to a Grammy monologue.
And here’s the connection to right now because everything that happened at the Grammys foreshadowed what just happened this week. Trevor Noah on April 14th, 2026, just two months later, released a Netflix stand-up special called Joy in the Trenches. In it, he revisited the Grammys moment. He talked about being on Donald Trump’s radar for the first time in his comedy career.
Turns out the president watches the Grammys, Noah told his Netflix audience. It hits different when you’re in the crosshairs. I’m not going to lie. Then Noah read Trump’s truth social post out loud on the Netflix stage and roasted Trump line by line. He called Trump a sexual deviant. Exact phrase on tape on Netflix distributed globally.
He compared Trump’s behavior to predatory patterns. He used his comedy authority to walk through Trump’s history of sexual misconduct allegations. The clip went viral. Trump never followed through on his $20 lawsuit threat. The Epstein joke aged into prophecy. The threats aged into yet another piece of evidence of the pattern.
And the pattern is exactly what we just watched play out this week. Donald Trump on Sunday morning telling Kristen Welker she has no credibility after she asked him for evidence. Donald Trump on Monday night getting booed at Madison Square Garden by his own hometown. Donald Trump 3 weeks ago attacking CNN’s Caitlyn Collins on camera for not smiling enough.
Donald Trump in November 2025 telling Bloomberg’s Katherine Lucy to be quiet piggy. Donald Trump in December 2025 calling ABC’s Rachel Scott the most obnoxious reporter in the whole place. The pattern Trevor Noah was joking about at the Grammys is not abstract. It is the operating manual of a president of the United States who cannot handle being challenged by women on television.
Hit subscribe if this kind of breakdown is what you’re here for. Share the video. The corporate media won’t put it together. Now to the Melania piece because Trevor Noah has been roasting Melania Trump on broadcast television for the better part of a decade. Donald Trump has broken his silence and he immediately is having a catastrophic day.
He went utterly silent after Benjamin Netanyahu attacked Iran when Donald Trump had previously said, “I hold the cards. Netanyahu is not going to attack Iran.” Well, Israel struck Iran and hit a prochemical facility site there. Iran responded, struck Israel, believed to strike a prochemical facility in Hifa. We’re awaiting more details of that, but that seems to be uh covering up the extent to which that may or may not have been uh hit.
And then a few hours ago, Donald Trump rushed on social media and here’s what he posted. Israel and Iran must immediately stop shooting President Donald J. Trump. That’s what we’ve been reduced to, a social media post. Or this is what he then posts right after. Both sides, Israel and Iran, are looking to do an immediate ceasefire.
Final negotiations on peace are proceeding. Subject to ignorance or stupidity getting in the way. The blockade will remain in place and in full force in effect until a final deal, and he puts that in quotes, is reached. Things should move quickly. Thank you for your attention to this matter, Donald J. Trump. The only thing perhaps accurate in this post is putting quotes around final deal because there is no deal.
You’ve been saying this now for 90 days. It’s right around the corner. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. I mean, yesterday he had the audacity after Israel struck in Beirut when everybody knew that was a red line that would lead to Iran striking back in Israel. Trump said, “We were about to do the deal on Monday.” And then Netanyahu did this and now we can’t do the deal, but it was going to happen on Monday.
That’s always the thing about Donald Trump. Even when you look at his first term, he was going to do all this. I was going to get you the health care plan. I was going to do this that, but then the election was stolen from me. It was rigged, you know. And here he is, 2026 in that ridiculous interview with Kristen Welker over the weekend that was released where his face was literally different shades of orange and red saying it was rigged in 2020 and the FBI was involved in January 6th and just all these deranged conspiracies. And this
morning also, he’s posting about the Los Angeles uh the city of Los Angeles elections. He’s like, “It was rigged. It was rigged against Spencer Pratt, the reality guy.” If Okay, if it was rigged, why is the Republican up in I don’t even have to justify why it’s not rigged, but why is it that the Republican is up in the governor’s race? It was selectively rigged.
It’s just called counting, Donald. This is how the votes get counted. Even the United States Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles had to come up with a statement and say, “No, it’s not rigged.” Even your own United States Attorney’s Office. But this is what he is doing. As Senator Patty Murray says, he went from an orange to like a red shade right there.
Now, one of the things to note as well, uh, is Donald Trump is also destroying New York right now. and the people in New York City >> television for the better part of a decade and the cumulative weight of those roasts is part of why the Melania movie premiere at the Kennedy Center this winter triggered such a brutal cultural backlash throughout his run on the Daily Show from 2015 to 2022.
Noah did segment after segment about the first lady. The infamous I really don’t care do you jacket she wore on her trip to a migrant child detention facility in 2018. The hand slap moments where cameras caught Melania pulling her hand away from Donald’s as they walked across tarmacs. The free Melania cultural moment which Noah leaned into without making fun of Melania herself.
He made fun of the political marriage and what it represented. Noah has always treated Melania as a person trapped in a difficult situation while treating Donald as the architect of that situation. And Noah’s Melania bits have aged into a specific kind of cultural prophecy. He spent years setting up the implicit question, “What does Melania Trump actually think about her husband? What does she want? Why does she pull her hand away? Why does she wear the I really don’t care jacket on the way to see crying immigrant children?” Noah
never answered the questions in his comedy. He let the audience fill in the blanks. And the blanks have been filled in year by year by Melania’s own documented behavior, the reduced public appearances during the second term, the reported separate living arrangements at the White House and Mara Lago, the increasingly transactional public image, the Melania movie itself, the propaganda piece premiered at the Kennedy Center this winter, the one Nicki Minaj attended on her loyalty tour, is the desperate Trump family attempt to
reframe a public marriage that the audience has been openly skeptical of for nearly a decade. Trevor Noah’s years of Melania jokes set the stage for the public skepticism. And the public skepticism is now the political cultural reality the Trump White House cannot escape. There was also Trevor Noah’s career-defining moment on April 30th, 2022 when he hosted the White House correspondents dinner.
The first WHCD since 2019. The first to take place since the COVID pandemic shutdown the event and the first with a sitting president in the room since Trump shunned the dinner throughout his entire first term. Joe Biden attended. Trevor Noah hosted and Noah delivered a set that in retrospect captured the entire emotional logic of the Trump Biden American moment.
He skewered both parties. He skewered the press. He skewered tech billionaires in the room. He skewered the White House itself for shutting down the press dinner for two years over co while attending other events. And he reminded the audience in his closing remarks that one of the things that makes American democracy distinct is that the president of the United States is supposed to be able to sit in a room and be made fun of by a comedian.
Trump had refused to do that for four years. Biden was doing it that night. The cultural contrast was the point. Trevor Noah four years later would discover at the 2026 Grammys that Trump still can’t take a joke about himself. Only now the platform is bigger, the audience is global and the president has the FCC at his disposal. One helicopter is going in one direction, the Shahid is going in the other direction.
You can do some basic physics. And where they hit each other, it just gets lodged there. Like it just stays there. I don’t know, like a like a like a dart being thrown at like a bullseye. Like it just gets stuck. Wouldn’t the force of a Shahid going fast and a helicopter loitering low to the water and both go fast? Boom. Wouldn’t it just knock it over? I mean, again, just do the you could run a simulation to throw the speeds in of an Apache and a Shahid.
It would knock it down into the water. it would probably the the the mere force of it could cause an explosion even if the Shahid explosive device didn’t um didn’t explode when the Shah Heat hit and I mean I don’t know how you would still keep control over the uh helicopter and how is it was lodged between the two like just perfectly in the middle reason to be there.
It was also announced that Donald Trump will not be sitting with the people. Of course he won’t. Or courtside. He’s going to be in the luxury boxes with the owner, another billionaire, while he shuts down these five blocks and two avenues right around the garden where so many fans were there for watch parties and experiencing the joy of the city together.
Since 1973, the Knicks have not won a finals since what was it 1999 or so. They hadn’t been to a finals. And so the city was wanted to be there in front of the Madison Square Garden. And Donald Trump ruins that. The guy literally ruins everything. Oh, and and and get this. This is this is what we’re just hearing. The IDF is issuing an urgent evacuation warning to residents of Lebanon, saying they’re basically going to blow up this area near Beirut.
No, not not a not a not not a big shocker. Uh, and we’re seeing more strikes as well take place right now in Lebanon. So, Israel and and in Beirut. And so, Donald Trump is just being utterly uh ignored right there. Uh, Mayor Manni just put out the following statement as well, though. He said, “The New York Knicks are are home and our city is ready to show out.
We’re hosting a free watch party for 5,000 New Yorkers tonight in Bryant Park. You can register at the link below starting at noon today. So, there you have it. He’s going to offer another location for these watch parties right here after Madison Square Garden canled all of the Knicks watch parties because Donald Trump wanted to show up where Trump is undoubtedly going to get booed.
Just bring in some B-roll right here, guys, of what’s happening in Albania right now, where the Trump family there uh is continuing to be protested by the people of Albania as a result of Ivanka and Jared wanting to take over that Albanian island and turn it into an Trump a Trumpenstein weirdo island.
and they want to put 10,000 rooms for oligarchs to like live on this Albanian island. What they’re calling what’s happening in Albania right now is a flamingo revolution against Trump’s family business dirty dealings in Albania. And as I reported earlier, the European Union now is also saying to Albania, I know you wanted to have this ascension.
His 2026 Grammy bit about Nicki Minaj attending the Melania movie premiere was the culmination of that long-unning framing. The Melania movie itself, produced with the Trump family’s involvement, premiered at the Kennedy Center under the Trump controlled board of trustees, deliberately positioned as a piece of cultural propaganda, represents exactly what Noah has been warning about for 10 years.
The Trump family using the powers of the federal government to remake American cultural institutions in their own image. Noah’s joke about Nicki Minaj being still at the White House with Donald Trump discussing very important issues worked on multiple levels. It made fun of Minaj for being missing from the Grammys.
It made fun of Trump for treating a pop star’s visit as a substantive policy meeting. And it made fun of the Kennedy Center premiere of Melania as a piece of obvious political theater that the entire celebrity industrial complex had been pretending to take seriously. Now bring it back to what happened this week because the cultural conditions Trevor Noah has been describing for a decade are now the daily news cycle.
On Sunday morning, NBC’s Meet the Press aired the Trump interview. Welker pressed Trump on the anti-weaponization fund. Trump claimed January 6th riers had lost everything and made up the false claim that they had FBI agents ushering them into the building. Welker pushed back. No evidence of that. Approximately 170 January 6th riers have pleaded guilty to assaulting police officers.
Trump’s response, “They plead guilty because they were frightened. They went down. They were ushered into a building.” NBC News spent the rest of Sunday publishing a litany of fact checks. NBC fact checked Trump’s claim that the US had totally obliterated Iran’s nuclear sites. The reality is that one site was mostly destroyed, but two others were not as badly damaged, and Iran retains nearly 1,000 pounds of uranium enriched to 60%.
NBC fact checked Trump’s claim that the US had completely destroyed Iran’s navy. Half of Iran’s unconventional navy remains intact. Welker pressed Trump on his 2024 campaign pledge, “I’m not going to start a war. I’m going to stop wars.” Trump’s response, “I didn’t guarantee no war. I didn’t guarantee no war. The man who won millions of votes on the campaign promised that he would not start wars just publicly admitted on Meet the Press that he had lied about it.
And then Monday night, Madison Square Garden, the booze, the Knicks losing 115 to 111, the 13game playoff winning streak ending, Trump’s mostly cheers delusion afterward, the whole cultural moment captured on every camera in the building. The city of New York giving the president of the United States the only response his own city could give.
He was born in Queens. He built his real estate empire in Manhattan. [clears throat] He held court at Madison Square Garden through the 1980s as a famous New York socialite. He held political rallies at MSG. And in 2024, New York City, his actual hometown, gave him fewer than 839,000 votes against Kala Harris’s 1.
9 million votes. The hometown rejected him by a margin of more than 2 to1 >> to the European Union. But by waving your environmental protocols to allow Jared and Ivanka to build this island, uh that could violate critical issues regarding you joining the EU. So again, everything that Trump’s touch goes to absolute crap right now in all ways.
And you also think about the World Cup. There’s like chaos in the World Cup. And so first and foremost, how how the United States is treating Iran’s soccer or football team. Iran’s national soccer team. They arrived in Mexico yesterday where it will stay during the World Cup. It will play all of its matches in the US, but Trump’s denying them lodging and forcing them to leave the country as soon as each game ends.
And FIFA, right, is gave Donald Trump the peace prize is allowing this to take place. Even when you’re at war, this is very unprecedented. Also, the Trump regime denied visas to Iran’s like managers and like the staff that works with the team that works with the football or soccer team. So, they’ve been denied to show up.
Like the coaching st a lot of the coaching staff has been denied their their uh visas. Also, Marco Rubio was announcing more visas this more denial of visas uh this morning. And also it’s just an utter mess right here. As Collins Aino explains, the visa dynamics for the World Cup are really confusing. So for example, African journalists who are given single entry visas to the US.
So if their team travels to play in Canada, they now can’t come back to the United States. Like maybe having Giuliani’s kid, Andrew, run this is is not the best idea. Maybe, you know, there should have been planning to think about, well, if the games are taking place in Canada and Mexico and the United States, maybe there’s some way to coordinate the visa process to streamline journalists going back and forth.
I don’t know, m maybe just exercise a modeiccom of conf of competence. And this is why I think people are so pissed, I mean, at this regime. I mean, they’re cruel ripping away health care. They are just bad, right? Right? I mean, people are suffering in this economy right now. Uh, people are losing their jobs. They’ve lost their health care.
People can’t afford rent. They can’t afford anything here in the United States, you know, and there’s just a level of incompetence and and and then they’re and then they’re cruel where they’ll do things like Trump will be like, I want to go watch the NBA Finals game, so I’m going to shut down five blocks, two avenues, and I’m going to stop the people of New York City from enjoying one.
Monday night was the audible public version of that rejection. The president of the United States in his own arena, in his own city, getting booed loudly enough to make international news. Trevor Noah saw this coming. He has been telling the country in stand-up specials, in Grammy monologues, in his Netflix specials, in his Spotify podcast, in every comedy venue he could find that Donald Trump’s political career was built on a cultural foundation that would eventually collapse.
The lies, the sexual misconduct, civil verdicts, the Epstein ties, the wife who walked away from his hand on the tarmac, the reality TV celebrity persona that masked a fundamentally damaged man. Noah laid out the diagnosis joke by joke, yearbyear on the Daily Show and then on Netflix and then at the Grammys, and the country slowly, painfully is finally catching up.
This is also where the political collapse around the administration becomes part of the same story. Last Wednesday, June 3rd, the House of Representatives voted 215 to 208 to pass a war powers resolution constraining Donald Trump’s military authority over Iran. Four Republicans crossed the aisle. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Tom Barrett of Michigan, and Warren Davidson of Ohio.
The first time either chamber of Congress has passed any kind of war powers measure since the war began 3 months ago. Trump’s truth social response. Yesterday, in a meaningless vote, the House voted for bad Republicans and all of the Democrats to limit my war powers. He called Republican congressmen bad. He spelled Democrats with a U.
And he threatened that American military leaders should be prepared to go forward with a full large-scale assault of Iran on a moment’s notice. Senate Republicans the same day stripped funding for Trump’s $250 million White House ballroom security project. Six GOP senators voted to block it. Senate Republicans had also forced the administration to scrap the $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund.
Three GOP senators voted to bar Trump’s nominee Bill PT from serving as temporary director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. Senator Tom Tillis of North Carolina said publicly the current status quo Pete Hgsith demonstrates how incompetent he is about the defense secretary from a Republican senator.
On the record, Senator Gene Shaheen, a Democrat, lit into Marco Rubio when he finally testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the first time the Secretary of State had appeared before lawmakers since the Iran war began 3 months ago. Shaheen told Rubio, “You sent Congress a war powers notification, saying, “We are not in active hostilities with Iran while the US was conducting strikes against Iran and Iran was bombing US embassies and bases throughout the Middle East.
” That was not consultation. It was an attempt to avoid answering to this committee. Thomas Massie summed it up. People are tired of this. They’re tired of $5 gallon gas and $6 gallon diesel and fertilizer we can’t afford to put on our fields in Kentucky. $5 gas, $6 diesel. Farmers in Kentucky who can’t afford fertilizer.
The nationwide average gas price has reached $4.53 per gallon. Strike by Iran into this Apache. And uh and then Iran said, “We didn’t do it.” Okay. You’re just saying that that went down as a pretext to escalate the war as a way to try to get us to, I guess, change our negotiating framework, which is not going to work and which we’re not going to do.
Now, just to remind you, last week, Donald Trump was asked about the reports that he would only attack Iran and escalate if Iran is Biden’s fault. Really? As our editor-inchief says, of course, screworm now showing up in the United States in June 2026 is the fault of Joe Biden. Oh, yeah. That makes a lot of sense.
Here, I’m being sarcastic here. Play this clip. I want to switch over because I know you’re on the Senate Agriculture Committee and beef prices are at an all-time high. There’s new concern about the beef supply now with the discovery of that flesh-eating screworm among cattle there in Texas. But what’s being done to try to contain this new threat and and really overall to to keep these prices down? >> Yeah, Charlotte. Well, we we got this.
We’ve been through this before. We eradicated the screworm in 1966. And we’ll talk about this, but this is another thing we can thank Joe Biden for that when millions of people came out of out of Central America, they brought this screw worm with them. It was on their pets, maybe on their flesh as well.
That’s what they’re going with this morning as well. Brooke Rollins, the agriculture secretary for Trump, same thing. She says, “Yeah, it was Biden’s fault. Biden did it. Biden’s Biden’s to blame right now for the screw arms.” Here, let’s play this clip. >> He’s eradicated it. pushed it all the way back past the Darian gap into South America where it was contained for decades, I guess almost 50 60 years.
Uh I do think it’s important to note that under the last administration with the massive movement under the open borders policy, the the cartels, etc., uh border security, that’s when it began to make its way back up toward America, hitting Mexico uh in early 2023, moving its way up through Mexico in 2024.
And when we walked in the door last year, I was sworn in on February 13th of of uh 2025, it they laid this all out for me and I said, ‘Well, where are the sterile flies? Right? I mean, this is we’ve beaten it before. We’ve got to beat it again. And and obviously, not much had been done to uh to push back. So, we >> And then the other thing that they have is blaming is just talking about elections are rigged and the California election is rigged. No, it’s not.
It’s not. Just stop it. You got to deal with this idiot MAGA guy, Randy Fine, this MAGA Republican congressman. >> The strategic petroleum reserve has been drained 14% since the Iran war began, approximately 58 million barrels, and is now at 357.1 million barrels, the smallest amount since January 2024.
Iranian drones struck Kuwait’s international airport last week, killing one person and wounding 63. Trump asked about the Kuwait attack told reporters, “At that part of the world, a ceasefire is when you’re shooting in a more moderate pattern.” A ceasefire is when you’re shooting in a more moderate pattern. The president of the United States redefining vocabulary in real time.
This is the country Trevor Noah was describing in February at the Grammys. This is the country Trevor Noah has been describing on Netflix since 2023. This is the country Trevor Noah described on the Daily Show for 7 years. And the international situation keeps deteriorating. Israel announced a 10-day ceasefire with Lebanon last week, but Israeli National Security Minister Edomar Bengir denounced the deal as a grave mistake within hours.
Hezbollah’s senior official Bilal Lakis told NBC News by phone that the group won’t comply with Israel’s demand to disarm except within a framework tied to a broader national security vision. Yesterday, Monday, June 8th, Trump and Netanyahu held another phone call after Israel and Iran traded strikes for the first time since the April ceasefire, meaning the April ceasefire is now effectively over, regardless of what the administration is officially calling it.
Trump told a New York Post podcast last week that he was a little bit perturbed at Netanyahu’s constantly fighting with Lebanon. Then on a phone call earlier in the week, Trump reportedly cursed at Netanyahu with the words, “What the f are you doing?” Netanyahu went on CNBC and publicly dismissed Trump’s [ __ ] crazy comments, the diplomatic theater, the contradictions, the performance of alliances held together by truth social posts, and the domestic chaos compounds.
The DOJ has opened a criminal investigation into 82-year-old Eugene Carol, the woman who beat Donald Trump in two civil trials for sexual abuse and defamation, roughly $88 million in combined civil judgments. The case is at the Supreme Court. Whoopy Goldberg on the View asked, “What the hell?” Joy Bahar called the DOJ probe Trump’s weapons of mass destruction.
Trump’s lawyers refiled a 10 billion dollar defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal over the 2003 Epstein birthday card. The card with the handwritten message may every day be another wonderful secret. Trump’s Freedom 250 Festival has lost six of nine headliners. Morris Day, Young MC, Martina McBride, Brett Michaels, Millie Vanil, the Commodores.
Trump has offered to perform at his own Birthday of America festival himself because country stars refused to play it. The Republican defection list keeps growing. Pence on Meet the Press distancing himself from the DOJ anti-weaponization fund. Wicker, Graham, and Cruz publicly criticizing the Iran deal terms as too favorable to Thrron.
Massie, Fitzpatrick, Barrett, and Davidson breaking on the war powers vote, who then parrots what Donald Trump says that they go through the dumpsters to find the fraudulent balance. You can’t just you just make up things. You just wake up and you lie about every damn thing. Here, let’s play this clip. >> So, people can just dig through garbage cans, find ballots, and send them in apparently forever after an election is over. It’s not okay.
It’s got to come to an end, and people need to go to jail. >> You know what? I’ll just leave you with what this French presidential candidate, Jean Luke uh Melanchon, uh just said this morning. He goes, “I propose that we discuss and organize with the Chinese because they are reasonable people. They are not gringoes ready to pull out their cult every 5 minutes to exterminate whoever displeases them.
They are reasonable people. Let’s talk to reason Let’s talk to reasonable people.” And they were relatively unharmed and it was this incredible miracle. kind of reminds you and me a little bit of that F-15 story that they told where these pilots were hit from the F-15 and then we sent in hundreds of special forces near Isvahan which was nowhere near where the F-15 was struck and then all these special forces managed to save the two pilots.
And I’m I’m going to just raise these red flags as it relates to the Apache crash. And I just want to use science and facts and data. You can judge for yourself. I don’t want to go down any conspiratorial rabbit hole. I just want to use the undisputed facts. So the main undisputed fact is that the purported downing of an Apache by an Iranian shahed drone has been used as the pretext for the United States to attack Iran not just once but twice in violation of the ceasefire saying they went after an Apache helicopter that was over the straight of Hermoose. So we
have the right to retaliate. That’s what Sentcom and Trump said for both of the latest United States retaliatory strikes in the areas of Kashm and Bonder Abbas and Manab and other areas near the straight of Hormuse. Now, you’ll recall that Donald Trump previously told the Wall Street Journal and then he said it in the Oval Office that he won’t resume any allout war with Iran outside in the parties that they’re throwing.
I mean, dude, just [snorts] Donald, just watch it at the White House or watch it in one of your golf clubs. Watch it there. You don’t need to be in the stadium and ruin the experience. I mean, he can’t even do a modiccom of sacrificing. Not even a modiccom of sacrificing. And then there’s just everything is blaming Biden and ducking accountability.
I mean, look, this morning you have MAGA Republican Senator Roger Marshall blaming the screworm outbreak right now on Joe Biden. Six senators blocking the ballroom funding. Three senators blocking pt tillis on hegsth. Tucker Carlson, once Trump’s most reliable media booster, apologized to his audience in April for misleading supporters into voting Trump in.
Alyssa Farah Griffin called the DOJ Carroll investigation absolutely wild. Sarah Matthews, Trump’s former White House spokeswoman, called the president’s attacks on Caitlyn Collins disgusting misogyny. Mary Trump on CNN. Donald Trump has never been fit in any capacity. Pence, Cruz, Graham, Wicker, Massie, Fitzpatrick, Barrett, Davidson, Carlson, Farah Griffin, Matthews, Mary Trump.
The defections are no longer a list. They’re a movement, and the cultural opposition keeps building. Anderson Cooper defended Caitlyn Collins on CNN after Trump’s hatred in her eyes attack. White House spokesperson Davis Engel responded by calling Cooper a talentless hack who should also smile more. The whole administration is now publicly insulting CNN anchors faces.
Trump’s history of attacking female reporters is the same pattern Trevor Noah was joking about at the Grammys. The pattern of a man who cannot handle a woman asking him a real question. There’s one final piece of the Trevor Noah arsenal I want to bring up because it captures the moral framework underneath all his Trump material.
Back during his Daily Show years, Noah used to deliver a recurring observation that he called the Tokyo drift of lying about Donald Trump’s lies. You know, sometimes Trump lies so hard he gives my brain whiplash because most people lie in a gradual curve. Noah said, “I know him. Actually, I know him through a friend.
” Well, I don’t know. Trump is like the Tokyo drift of lying. Tokyo Drift of Lying from a comedy host. Five years before Donald Trump’s I didn’t guarantee no war admission on Meet the Press. Five years before totally obliterated Iran nuclear sites turned into one site mostly destroyed, two not as badly damaged.
5 years before mostly cheers became the president’s official version of a Madison Square Garden booing. Noah had named the pattern. The pattern was always there. And it has only gotten more brazen as Trump has gotten older and more cognitively impaired and more politically isolated and more publicly desperate. And another classic Noah Trump observation about Trump’s contradictions. Newton’s third law.
And for every Trump, there is an equal and opposite Trump. Every Trump has an equal and opposite Trump. The man who promised no war just admitted he didn’t guarantee no war. The man who promised cheaper gas just oversaw the highest gas prices since 2022. The man who promised respect from world leaders just got cursed at on a phone call by Netanyahu.
The man who promised to drain the swamp just got six Senate Republicans to block his ballroom slush fund attack. He then said in the Oval Office, his red line killing or attacking American troops in the area would trigger more pain, he said. And I’ll show you what he said in the Oval Office in a minute.
But then what did we learn this weekend? We learned according to SenCom as per SenCom, this is what they said. SenCom has confirmed that an Apache helicopter an AH6 an AH64 Apache from the US Army went down in the straight of Hormuz near the coast of Oman. Per the Sencom release, bolt soldiers, the pilots were rescued within two hours of the helicopter going down and rescue efforts were led by US naval forces.
Sentcom and the 82nd Airborne Division. Additional naval and air force units provided support. Notably, no reason is provided for the helicopter’s downing originally, but then they came up with a reason or they said they investigated the reason. Notably, they were able to investigate that quickly. Still unable to give us their investigative findings regarding the mass slaughter by the United States of 168 little girls in Manab, but talk about that in a little bit as well.
But then Donald Trump posts the following. I have just been informed by our great military that last night the Iranians shot down one of our highly sophisticated Apache helicopters while patrolling over the straight of Hermuz. There were two pilots involved. Both are safe and uninjured. Nevertheless, the United States must of necessity respond to this attack.
Thank you for your attention to this matter, Donald J. Trump. Now, Iran denied that it sent this Shahid drone. Iran called it a pretext and they said that Iran said the US is using a pretext of the downing of an Apache helicopter and they said that doesn’t that Shahid absolutely pissed at what he’s doing.
The NYPD just had to release the following bulletin. Tonight is game three of the NBA finals. An exciting time for New York City and we want everyone to be able to enjoy the game safely. With tonight’s presidential visit, there will be extra security measures in and around Madison Square Garden that the NYPD and Secret Service have planned together.
Starting at 400 p.m. today, vehicular and pedestrian traffic will be closed from West 30th Street to West 35th Street between 6th Avenue and 8th Avenue. No one will be allowed inside the secure area unless you have a ticket to the game, a train ticket, are going to business inside the area, have credentials, or have some other authorized.
The man who promised hometown loyalty just got booed at Madison Square Garden. For every promise Trump made in 2024, there is now an equal and opposite reality that voters can see in 2026. Noah called it Newton’s third law of Trump. Drop a comment with the Trevor Noah moment that hit hardest for you.
Was it the February 1st, 2026 Grammys Nicki Minaj is still at the White House with Donald Trump line? The 1999 sex scandal our Diddy was arrested comparison. The Epstein joke that triggered Trump’s plenty dollar lawsuit threat. The April 14th, 2026 Netflix special Joy in the Trenches where Noah called Trump a sexual deviant and read his truth social rant aloud, roasting line by line.
The Daily Show Tokyo Drift of Lying Diagnosis. The Daily Show, Newton’s Third Law observation about every Trump having an equal and opposite Trump. Noah’s years of Melania segments. The I really don’t care, do you? Jacket coverage, the tarmac hand slap clips, the Kennedy Center Melania movie roast, the Matt Whitaker blatant lies ever segment, the World War I cemetery helicopter needs to keep its head dry joke, the 2022 White House correspondents dinner where Noah hosted.
Tell me, every one of those moments is on tape. Every one of them is part of the historical record and every one of them has aged into a sharper picture of who Donald Trump actually is. Hit subscribe if you want more breakdowns like this. Share the video. The corporate media won’t connect the dots. Paramount paid Trump $16 million.
CBS canled Steven Colbert. ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel for 6 days last September after FCC threats. The Disney FCC license review is reportedly still underway. The institutional cowardice is real. The independent voices, the Trevors, the Kimmels, the Colberts, the Whoopases, the Dairos, the Mary Trumps, the Sterns, the Roses, the Sunny Hosts, the Meetas Touch crew are the only voices doing this work.
And we’re not stopping. Donald Trump is on this particular Tuesday the president of the United States who just got booed thunderously at Madison Square Garden by his hometown crowd, stormed off Meet the Press the day before, and watched four House Republicans and six Senate Republicans break with his agenda in a single week.
Trevor Noah is the South African-born comedian who hosted the Grammys on February 1st, 2026, made a single Epstein joke about Trump and triggered a truth social rant so unhinged that Trump threatened to sue him for plenty dollars. Both of those statements are now in the historical record. And the gap between what Trevor Noah has been saying and what the country has been ready to admit gets smaller every single day.
The booze at Madison Square Garden Monday night were the loudest, most public proof that comedy resistance actually works. Trevor Noah is one of the comedians who built that resistance. Steven Colbert is one of them. Jimmy Kimmel is one of them. Seth Myers is one of them. Chris Rock is one of them.
And the country, the city, the hometown crowd at the world’s most famous arena finally caught up to what they have all been saying for a decade. See you in the next one.
