The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Between the Scenes - Trump Sends a $250 Million Message to Syria

Episode Date: April 22, 2018

Trevor marvels at how Western nations are often stingy when it comes to foreign aid, yet perfectly willing to spend $250 million on a military strike. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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But in this instance, Trump acted with the UK and with France, right? And he launches the strike, and then people immediately were like, oh, thuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thu, thu, thu, thri, thri, thri, thri, thri, right, right, right, right, whether, whether, whether, whether, whether, whether, whether, whether, whether, whether, whether, whether, right, whether, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thr-i, thri, thri, thri. Whether it's, thri. Whether it's thri. Whether it's thri. Whether it's thri. Whether, whether it's thro. Whether, whether it's launches the strike, the Allies launched the strike. And then people immediately were like, oh, Trump only did this to distract from the Comey book. That's why he launched these missiles to distract us from the Comey story. And then literally the next day after the strike, Trump sent out like a barrage of tweets. He's like, James Come, it's almost like he was going, folks, don't let Bashar al-Assad distract us from Komi. We've got to focus on the real news,

folks. Don't get distracted by these chemical attacks, hashtag resist. It's just like, oh man, he's just like doing his own thing, man. Ah, Donald J. Trump. You know, you doing his own thing, man. Ah, Donald J. Trump. And you know the thing that gets me with the Syria issue is this, I go, I'm always intrigued by how Western nations deal with conflicts and issues in developing nations. Because here's my thing, here's my thing. America will spend $250 million on missiles that are just

going to destroy, right? But if you say to France and the UK and America, hey, give 250 million dollars to these refugees and help them set up a new life, people who are like, we don't have money for that. We don't have money for that. We don't have money for that. But you got to spend the money, and this isn't even like, this isn't, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, th, th, th, th, that, that, that, thi, thi, thi, that, that, that, that, that, thi, thi, thi, that are just thi, that, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, that's that are just that are just that are just that are just that are just that are just that are just thiii. thi. thi. thi, thi, 't have money for that. But you got to spend the money. And this isn't even like, I understand like the defense case when people like we need an army for defense and we're spending it on defending. This is not defending. They said this is to send a message, a 250 million dollar message. You never heard of WhatsApp?

If I had that money and I was trying to get I would spend $250 million helping refugees and then I would like spend a million dollars hiring black Twitter to troll Bashar Alasad. That's all I do. I like you guys get your memes and your gyps. We're gonna take this guy down. That's what we're doing. The Daily Show with Trevor No. Ears edition. Watch the Daily Show weeknights at 11, 10 Central on Comedy Central and the Comedy Central app. Watch full episodes and videos at the Daily Show.com and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for exclusive content and more. This has been a Comedy Central podcast. The candidates for November are set. I know Donald Trump's tight. Between now and Election Day.

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