The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Fox News Clarifies Trump Loves “Miners” & Female Reporters Are on Trump’s S**t List | Annie Leibovitz

Episode Date: December 11, 2025

Desi Lydic catches a Fox News closed caption writer's "minor" Freudian slip during Trump's economic rally, an event that focused less on affordability and more on Joe Biden. Plus, Michael Kosta explains why the president has been lashing out at female reporters so much lately: he's going through man-o-pause. TikTok’s biggest trends in 2025 had "6-7" becoming the word of the year, high school seniors cosplaying assassins, people damaging property Kool-Aid Man-style, and Lewis Black wondering what the f**k is wrong with our society. Legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz joins Desi Lydic to discuss her powerful new collection of career-spanning work titled "Women." They talk about breaking stereotypes of pregnant women with Demi Moore’s Vanity Fair cover, capturing Michelle Obama as she found her laid back self after eight years as first lady, her favorite unsmiling image of her mom where the camera "disappears," and Gloria Steinem’s message in the book about women “not going backward.” Shop Mint Unlimited Plans at http://mintmobile.com/daily Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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After some big losses in this year's elections, Donald Trump has decided to focus less on bringing back the rush hour franchise and focus more on real kitchen table issues like affordability. So last night, he held an affordability-themed rally at where else a casino. A place where people famously leave with more money than they came in with. This is an important issue that affects all Americans. So President Trump, let's hear your solution. Which is better, Sleepy Joe or Crooked Joe? We have 20,000 people I say, which do you like?

Sleepy Joe or Crooked Joe? Typically, Crooked Joe wins. I'm surprised. Because to me, he's a sleepy son of a bitch, you know? Dude. Get over Joe Biden already. It's like if Mike Tyson was still showing up at Evander Holyfield's house trying to bite his other ear.

And not for nothing. Joe Biden is retired now. He's allowed to be sleepy. What's your excuse? And we will continue to talk to our friends. farmers continue to understand exactly what this looks like and what is necessary. The final thing I'll say is 12 billion. I didn't fall asleep. You fell asleep. How are you falling asleep live on TV and your own cabinet meetings? You've got to at least

put on a pair of those glasses with eyeballs on them. But okay, so we got the Biden stuff out of the way. Then it was time to finally talk affordability. Let me tell you, black people love Trump. I got the biggest vote. I got the biggest vote with black people. They know a scam better than anybody. They know what it is to be scammed. Okay, that's racist. White

people get scammed too. Haven't you seen the Firefest documentary? Or the Theranos documentary? Or the Tinder Swindler documentary? Or the Lula Road documentary? At this point, white people falling for shit could be its own Oscar category. But I love how Trump is like, black people love me,

and that's why I came to the blackest area I could think of, the Poconos. And stop bragging. You only won 13% of black people. My potato salad pulls higher with black people. The secret is crazons. So we got a little off track with Biden and black people, but at least no one was thinking about the Epstein files anymore.

For minors, do we love moms? I love miners. I love miners. We know. We all saw the birthday card. By the way, I was watching this on Fox News last night, and I had the captions on because I'm Gen Z. Don't Google it.

And this is completely real. The way that it aired, you can actually see that the person doing the closed captions is also confused, and then delete, delete, delete. Oopsie. That's what Fox gets for hiring Prince Andrew to do the captions. But you know what? Just let Trump do his rallies where he's in his element. He prefers it. I prefer it. And I'm pretty sure most of the press pool at the White House prefers it. Because it hasn't been a good time over there lately, especially for the female reporters. President Donald Trump has gone on a full rampage recently of berating and insulting female reporters.

You are an obnoxious, a terrible, actually a terrible reporter. It's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude. The way you ask a question with the anger and the meanness is terrible. Argentina's fighting for its life, young lady. You don't know anything about it. Are you stupid? Are you a stupid person? You know nothing about nothing. Quiet, quiet. Quiet. Quiet. You're really obnoxious. You don't listen. You never listen.

That's why you're second grade. I don't want to take a question. You're totally unprepared. You ought to go back and learn how to be a reporter. I took a cognitive test, and I hasted it. I got a perfect mark, which you would be incapable of doing. Goodbye, everybody. You too.

Mr. Trump, just quick follow-up. What the fuck is your problem? God. This guy is exhausting. It's like he won't stop until he gives every woman in the country resting Melania a face. Can you just try being nice to a woman just once?

We even brought our superstar today, Caroline. When she gets up there with that beautiful face and those lips that don't stop, Like a little machine gun. Never mind. I'll take the insults. For more on President Trump's recent outbursts, we go live to the White House with Michael Costa.

Michael, what is going on with the president? Why is he being so awful towards women? Isn't it obvious? The moodiness, the sweating, his sleeping problems, the brain fog. Desi, the president is going through menopause. All right, Michael. Men don't go through menopause.

Well, we don't call it menopause. When a man gets menopause, we call it dudo-paws. Why not call it manopause? Hey, hey, don't dudsplain manopause to me, okay? But you're right, manopause is better. But this is a difficult time of life

for men. You have the blows. the thinning hair, and of course, the vaginal dryness. All right. Michael, this is silly. Trump doesn't have a vagina. Oh, he doesn't? Does he? Then what do you call this? You know, there was a time in his life when those folds were as tight as a drum.

Smooth, supple, sopping wet. But now he's going through a bottle of neck lube but weak just to feel anything at all. And what do you think that does to a man? I'm sorry. I feel so ignorant. I had no idea. Yeah, well, maybe you should have. And you didn't even ask me if I scored a goal in my hockey game last. I'm sorry, Desi. I'm sorry. I didn't even have a hockey game last night. I myself, sorry, am going through the early stages of manopause.

Wow, well, that's very brave of you to be so open to talk about it. Well, we have to break the silence, Desi. We have to end the stigma. Do you know how many gynecologists have told me it's all in my head? That I should just take an aspirin and stop texting them pictures of my stool? I hope just one? 34. Wow.

34 doctors. No one will treat me. And don't even get me started on trying to get insurance to cover it. You have no idea how hard it is for a man to get proper health care in America. Yes, of course. Okay, so let me ask you this. Is there anything that can treat the symptoms of manopause? The only thing that's been giving me any relief

are these estrogen patches. These are the same ones I see Trump wearing all the time. I thought those were Band-Aids. Oh, well, what do you think makes more sense? That Trump's getting a continuous stream of low-dose estrogen or that he's got a wound on his hand that hasn't healed for like six months. No, he's getting estrogen. Now, if you'll excuse me, at my age,

my neck's not going to lube itself. So, excuse me, just need to. That's disgusting. Michael Costa, everyone. When we come back, Lewis Black tells us about the trends of 2025, so don't go away. You know, you don't have to let big wireless and your overpriced phone bill suck the joy out of the holidays this year. because right now all of MintMobil's unlimited plans are 50% off. You can get 3, 6 or 12 months of unlimited premium wireless for 15 bucks a month.

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Seamintmobile.com. Everyone who knows me knows I love TikTok. I'm always tick in and talking, whereas my doctor calls it stroking out. And why do I love TikTok? Because every time I think we might be reaching the end of civilization, I open TikTok. And remember, we already have. So before what's left of our tiny ADHD-addled brains leaks out of our pre-diabetic ears,

let's take a look at the hottest TikTok trends of 2025. And our first ones, as the kids say, is dumb a. F. If you're the parent of a child of a certain age, the new dictionary.com word of the year will probably sound familiar. It's the slang phrase, 6-7. Oh, goody. The word of the year is not even a fucking word. What's the number of the year?

Red? Please tell me more. The slang phrase, six, seven, it's sweeping America and annoying parents and teachers everywhere. Yes, six seven. Six seven. Yes, six seven. Seriously.

What is wrong with these kids? I mean, I thought RFK Jr. was supposed to be curing autism, not making it worse. And this is why I only hang out in bars. The kids in there would never say six, seven. They've seen some shit. But this year's trends weren't just stupid. They were also downright upsetting. Why is this high school student sprinting to her car?

She's worried about getting shot. Not with a gun, with a water pistol. It's part of a nationwide high school craze that's triggering warnings for authorities. It's called senior assassin. Teenagers ambush their unsuspecting classmates with water pistols. When you shoot somebody, they're out.

That is offensive. Listen, kids, a school shooter's culture is not your country. costume. But in a way, it's nice to see kids having some fun with traumatic events. Maybe after this, they could do a 9-11 theme trust fall. Never forget about teamwork. I knew you would. I knew you would. But hey, at least no one's actually getting hurt, which is more than I can say about these assholes. It's the classic TV commercial for Kool-Aid, and now

it's being copied in a destructive social media challenge, called the Kool-Aid Man Challenge. Ben Hellam is the latest homeowner to have his property vandalized. He didn't know what caused the damage until he screened surveillance video taken from across the street.

It shows three youngsters running right through the fence. Fuck up, evolution. We'll take it from here. These kids are getting a horrible deal. Back in my day, if you got brain damage, at least it came with a scholarship to Florida State. But fine, go ahead, give yourself brain damage.

Just make sure to protect your kidneys, you'll probably need to sell those down the road. And if you thought 2025 TikTok trends couldn't get any weirder, oh, how wrong you are. In a new TikTok trend, parents are picking up their grown teenage children one last time before they get too big. I think we can safely assume one thing. That man is different. That man is divorced. I'll be honest, this made me kind of emotional.

I remember the last time my dad held me. It was when I was one minute old, and then he said, Are you sure this is mine? Always brings a tear to my eye. But really, before TikTok, how did we even watch strange men lift up their fully grown sons? Oh, right, binoculars.

What show did you think you were coming to? On the bright side, if these TikTok trends will finally expose and eliminate the dumbest among us. I'd like to help. Maybe there's still time this year to start my own trend. Jesus. What up, squad? Uncle Lou here with the coolest new trend of 2025. It's called the Picking Up Lewis Black Challenge.

What happens is you come over and carry me wherever I need to go. Then you wait outside until I'm ready to go to the next. I'm getting emotional, just thinking about it. You can start by picking me up around six, seven, assholes. Does he? Lewis Black, everyone. When we come back, Annie Lee Lewis will be joining me on this show, so don't go away. Welcome back to the Daily Show.

My guest tonight is a legendary photographer whose powerful new collection of career-spanning work is called Women. Please welcome Annie Leibovitz. I don't know how I got talked into this. Are you shaking? How did we talk you into this? I still am trying to figure that out.

This is, yeah. Well, you'll be asking yourself for the rest of this interview. Okay. Well, just pick me up wherever I've started to, you know, things start to fall out the side of my mouth or something. Kidding me. You are an absolute dream. You are a legendary photographer.

Well, I love this show, and you're amazing. Well, thank you for that. And we're waiting for you to have your own show. Tell John that. Oh, did you hear that, Paramount, John, Paramount? I just want to make sure we were rolling on that. Annie's a legend, so we do what she says. Okay.

Okay. That's very kind of you to say. Your work, it was so important to me coming up. I remember vividly seeing the Demi Moore photograph being very pregnant and it was just the most jaw-dropping exquisite photo. At that time

I had never seen pregnant women being shown like that. It was like always with a laundry basket covering their bellies as though it's a shameful secret. And there she was just standing in her beauty and power and strength. We really

didn't know what we were doing when we did it. I mean, quite honestly, I in fact, I was sent out by Van A Fair to do a cover and they said well unfortunately Demi's pregnant so you'll have to like come in tight and you know do what you can you know do the best you can

and I happen to know Bruce and Demi and had photographed them before and then some private pictures of them when she was pregnant with her first child so at the end of our cover sitting I said do you want to listen you know do you want me to photograph you you know nude with with the second baby and she said sure

that'd be great. And then I was looking at her and I was thinking, you know, this is kind of interesting. This could be, this could be, maybe if you cover yourself in the right places, this could be a cover. Brought it back to New York. And it was Susan Sontag, actually, who said, this is really important.

And, you know, we went to Tino Brown and we made sure to me was comfortable with it, and we did it. And, you know, it was funny because we said, how do we talk about this? You know, what, what did we do? What did we do? We didn't quite know what we did,

and it turned out to be so important. It was interesting is Rihanna, of course. Yes. I mean, you know, I don't know if we had to pull that picture up. We do. I mean, good God, come on. I mean, you know, I mean, I mean, you know, I mean, you know, she took it to a whole new place. Oh, yes.

She did. No, just so you know, when I was pregnant, I thought that's what I was. looked like. Turns out I looked like I was just having a severe allergic reaction for nine months. I mean, it's such a moment. It's such a beautiful photo. No, I mean, I mean, first of all, she, you know, she announced that she was pregnant with her second baby at the Super Bowl and then the third one with, you know, at the Met Gala. So, I mean, the way she walks around, you know, it's so beautiful. I mean, she's so smart, such an interesting person. And I've tried to write about photographing her.

her, but you just get sort of taken in. I mean, she's really mesmerizing. She's just an amazing person. And it's what you pull out of your subjects, too. You're known for doing it. No, no, I feel like I'm dragged behind a car with, with, with, with, with her. She's amazing. She's so smart.

You're known for doing an immense amount of research on your subjects. What does that look like? Are you reading up on that? You've done research too. I've noticed. You've done a very good job. Well, thank you. That's very, that's very kind. But how does that, what does that look like for you when you do research?

Are you shadowing or? You know, it's just, I don't understand why people don't think you don't do research. I mean, you have to. I mean, you have to know who you're walking in to see and how they've been photographed before and who they are and what they do. I mean, I love, I always think I'm photographing, you know, not so much what someone looks like, but what they do and who they are, you know? The thing that I find that's common in all of your photos,

particularly in this book, which we're going to get to, is that you're not just showcasing a woman as being beautiful, and they are. They're all beautiful, but it's like you have a way of illuminating their superpower, whatever it is that they have, whether it be strength or depth or intrigue, or a sense of humor. Is that something that is planned out for you? or does that happen in the moment?

Do you just have to be there to see it? You know, it's interesting because I'm not too sure myself, you know, what it is that I'm doing. I'm pretty direct. And, you know, I stand on the shoulders of so many great portrait photographers that I have it in the back of my head how I'm seeing something.

But, you know, I'm not alone. I'm like, I'm there with the other person. And it's a very psychological situation, they have to sort of come to terms with themselves and how they imagine they want to be seen. I think we, especially as I get older, I really want us to look as best as we can look whoever we are. I mean, it's hard to explain. I can't explain it. No, you did. You did. I want to talk about your drive because you talk about coming up as a young photographer having a verve in this insatiable drive.

Where does that come from? Is that because you came from a big family, one of six? Where does that come from? I mean, I think I just, you know, it sounds very corny, but I love what I do. And I've been doing it a long time. And I've had incredible vehicles to ride on to work with, you know, starting with Rolling Stone Magazine

and then Bane Affair and then Vogue. And, you know, I just, I love what I do. And I love photography more than anything in the world. And, you know, I studied, you know, Cardi Rizant, Robert Frank, and became interested in, you know, the world of, you know, Helmut Newton and, I mean, it's just a great, so I don't know, I just, my brothers and sisters seem to have the same problem. They're all, you know, very, very, uh, kind of workaholics, I guess, you know, kind of workaholics, I guess, you know, kind of.

Well, it's worked out. Yeah. What was it like coming up as a young photographer being, being in a very male-dominated field, probably often being the only woman in a room? I wasn't really aware of it as much. I, I, I, I, I, I, you know, no one really took me seriously or thought, you know, um, you know, that, you know, you know, that, you know, you know, you know, that I could do anything, you know, so you could kind of wander around. I mean, the early work was reputage and more journalistic,

and so you could really be somewhere, and no one really paid you any attention, and I love it. And then as I got better known, I got a little harder, you know. Suddenly my subject was walking up to me and starting to talk to me, and I said, no, can you just please stay on the other side of the room? You do your job, I'll do my.

mustache. You could go undercover. Just a little disguise. I want to talk about this incredible collection. It's a two volume series. So I have an incredible publisher, um, fight in that lets me kind of

do kind of what I want to do more or less, you know, and what happened was as Hillary Clinton had come to me over a year ago and said, we want to commemorate the original women's book from 1999. And And then I thought, well, that's incredible.

Maybe it's out of print. Let's reprint it. And so I'm going to show you. So it's too cool. We have some. It's too cool. It's also, not only will you feel strong looking through these photos, but you actually will physically get strong.

It's a little, it's a little, it's really important to get these babies out of the box. Yes. Build that upper body strength. It's true. But so we reproduced and reprinted. the exact first volume, which was, you know, with Susan Sontag. And, you know, by the way, it's funny, but I wasn't too sure I wanted to do a book on women. I thought it was too broad of an idea, too big, too, you know, I didn't see how we could do it.

And then I went out to Las Vegas and did those photographs for the show girls. Yes. We have those. We can put them up. Yeah. I know you have to rub out some parts, right? Oh, yes. Slight blurs. But what was amazing is it turned me around.

I went back to New York and I said to Susan, let's do the book on women because we don't know what we look like. You know, we, it was a surprise. So this book, we just totally shrunk it a little bit and we, you know, reprinted it exactly the way it. is. It's kind of like a, it's not really a time capsule, but it's really a moment in time. And, but I thought, you know, why aren't we, why don't, I've done all this work since 1999 on women. I mean, never want to separate women from men. It's just that women's stories need to be told. Yes. And we have a lot of stories of men and it'd be nice to have, we need more stories on women, which is why.

Thank you. So look who I got to Gloria Steinem, and Chimamanda. Chimamanda wrote a beautiful passage. Both of them wrote beautiful pieces for this book. I just want to reference in the showgirl series what was so spectacular about that. When you look at the photos, they're side by side. You have the woman, you have the showgirl in her makeup and her costuming, in the version that she presents to the world,

and then you have the authentic version of her. Both are beautiful. I would argue that the authentic is more intriguing. I think this is open to discussion, you know, because I know you were interested in, has a photograph changed from you over time, and I think the show girls, I think they still kind of, I'm still trying to sort of understand them on some level,

but I met them the night before, in their dressing rooms, in their costumes. And they came into the studio the next day. Susan McNamara came in first. And I said, this is true. I said, can I help you? I didn't know who she was. I really didn't know who she was.

And she was one of the showgirls. And so I just was so spellbound by the fact that the women came in, you know, out of costume and unrecognizable, you know, from there in their costumes. So, you know, I, you know, I. I don't think it's two different people. They're the same person. It's just, you know, I'm still trying to sort it out, but it's mesmerizing to me.

And that was the series that made you think, oh, this could actually be a book. Yeah, maybe we could do this book, yeah. And you also shot an incredible photograph of Michelle Obama. Yes, there she is. So Michelle agreed to be in the book and I got a call from her office and she said, she shot, we photographed for the new book and we got a call from her office and she asked if she could wear jeans. And I said, sure. And so I had no idea what we were, you know, sort of getting

ourselves into. But she's so, she's so incredible. You know, I think she also told me she she was just driving a car by herself now and she was just really finding herself this is a woman that the first lady that I photographed several times for the covers of Vogue during those eight years

so to see her as just sort of finding refinding herself it was really very beautiful very beautiful very free very liberating photo and then one of your favorites from what I understand is the photograph of your mom oh I like I ended

talking about that because, you know, inevitably I get this question, what's your favorite photograph? I don't have a favorite photograph, really, but this photograph from my mom, which was done for the first volume. She's the age I am now, and she was afraid of being older, and she was nervous. She was afraid of being photographed. She was afraid that she was gonna look older or be older. And then we also have this problem in my family where my mother would always make a smile for pictures. So I was determined not to have her smile.

And so she didn't like the picture at first. And my father said, I don't like the picture because she's not smiling, you know. But it's an amazing photograph over time because when I look at it, I realize it really feels Like, the camera's not there. And she's really, like, looking, you know, looking at you, there's no camera there.

And I think that's really what you want to achieve in a portrait is there's no camera there. Yeah. And I also love that you said that, you know, she was sort of the life of the party and bubbly and charismatic. But what you loved so much about this particular photo is that it showed her intelligence,

because she was such an intelligent woman. Thank you. You were doing your room. research. I love that. I learned from you. I love that. Learn from the best. This is such an incredible collection of beautiful photos.

And this isn't, it's not just celebrities and star athletes. You have inspiring women from all walks of life. You have CEOs. You have a NASA mathematician, advocates. Can I say if you get the opportunity, I wish I put it more in the front of the book, the bios, which are little high-guyen, which are little haikus on these women in the new book. An astounding group of women.

I mean, it could have gone on and on and on and on, and this is just a small selection, but there is a difference between, we couldn't have done this book 25 years ago. And we are really, you know, in this quiet, roaring confidence, as Chimamanda says. I mean, I just think we're an incredible set of people right now as women. And it's much different from 25 years ago.

Yes, that's reassuring to hear. And hopefully we continue to move forward and do not go backwards, whatever the White House wants to bring our way. It's a tough time. It's a tough time. But what's interesting about Gloria's essay is she addresses that. Yes. And she's lived a long life.

and she said we're not I have to believe it we're not going backwards that's right that's right which is the optimism that we all need right now I am so grateful for your work thank you for doing what you do I can't believe for being here you're an absolute delight your name is available now and we're gonna take a quick break but we'll be right back after That's our show for tonight, but before we go, please consider donating to one simple wish, a charity that grants wishes to kids in foster care. If you can, head to the link below to grant a wish or donate to their holiday wish fund.

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