The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Jon Stewart Dissects Trump’s “Art of the Deal” Iran Strategy... That Isn't Working | Annalena Baerbock

Episode Date: April 21, 2026

Jon Stewart breaks down Trump’s “Art of the Deal” strategy in Iran, following the threats, consequences, and concessions the president has made to win... nothing. Plus, Republicans celebrate the president’s self-proclaimed victory as “a brilliant day for the world,” and Trump signs a bill to fast-track the psychedelic drug ibogaine while bragging, “You think Biden could do that?” The President of the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly Annalena Baerbock sits down with Jon and breaks down the challenges facing the United Nations in a rapidly shifting global order. From tensions surrounding the Strait of Hormuz to the limits of the UN Security Council’s veto system, Baerbock explains why diplomacy is becoming more difficult and more necessary than ever. Baerbock also discusses overseeing the process of selecting the next U.N. Secretary General, and whether Member States will vote for a woman to lead the organization in its 80-year history. -- To get simple, online access to personalized, affordable care for ED, Hair Loss, Weight Loss, and more, visit https://Hims.com/dailyshow -- Stream full episodes of The Daily Show on Paramount+: https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/the-daily-show/ The Daily Show airs weeknights at 11/10c on Comedy Central. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You're listening to Comedy Central. From the most trusted journalists at Comedy Central is America's only source for news. This is The Daily Show with your host, John. My name is John Stewart. Great show for you and a later on. We're going to be joined by the president of the United Nations General Assembly. Anelena Barbach will be joining us. She's president.

We will talk about how nobody knew that the United Nations General Assembly had a president. I didn't know that. But ladies and gentlemen, I want to start the program tonight in a slightly different place. I want to give credit where credit is due. We don't obviously often do this. The president did a solid over the weekend. President Trump signed an executive order in front of his fraternity brothers, fast-tracking the FDA process for novel psychedelic drug treatments for veterans,

suffering from all forms of PTSD and other psychiatric conditions, including addiction. I'm sorry, I'll let the president explain off the cuff as he does. In 2024 study from Stanford University, 30 special operation veterans with traumatic brain injuries underwent. It's called i. Bogain treatment. Ibogan.

Remember the name. Is that pronounced relatively properly what you said? I don't want to get it wrong. Ibogan. Body, body, body. Ibo-gain, I-bo-gain. Rogaine with an eyeball. It's easy. By the way, they gave you the easiest

hallucinogenic to pronounce. They could have thrown f***ing ayahuasca in there. Cilocybin. But they gave you ibogaine. But even when they dumb the shit down for him. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm falling into old habits. It's good. You did a good thing. I'm nitpicking. A lot of the people are going to get the help they need.

Ibo-Bogane, because it's so important and experienced an 80 to 90% reduction in symptoms of depression and anxiety within one month. Can I have some, please? I'll take it. I'll take whatever it takes. Who won't be president forever? I have to say, there are little moments in these Oval Office gatherings that are somewhat

revelatory of the president's psyche and really a good starting place for any accredited mental health professional. I don't have time to be depressed. You know, if you stay busy enough, maybe that works too. That's what I do. I get depressed if you stay busy. It's a little thing called outrunning the darkness.

You can't be depressed if the sadness can't catch you. And to be frank, I don't think Donald Trump should treat that with hallucinogenics anyway. But if he did, would we even notice? If he took hallucinogenics,

he'd be like, they're eating the cats and dogs. right near my beautiful bowl. The poor fellow in the bed is still sick. Really freaks me out every time I look at that picture. All right, you know what, though? Maybe Trump's already taken them, given how intensely he focused on the signing of this bill. I mean, he signed the shit out of this bill.

Dude, that's a good one. I want it. Do you know that, Joe? You think Biden can do that? Hey man, you ever really looked at your signature? It's a good thing what he did. I swear to God, it's a good thing what he did. And this is not political.

I don't mean this as political, but it was weird as shit the way he signed that. It was like it was weird as shit. Like, I'm looking at that signature right now. Does that even say Donald Trump? Last name is longer than his first name. It looks like it says Leonard Skinnerd. It doesn't even... None of this makes sense.

Go, go. You know, I'm sorry. I'm sorry to derail the program. Can we go back to just play him writing the last name? I swear to God, he doesn't write Trump. In letters, unless he's just adding characters like this is his Wi-Fi

password. I would make sure this executive order is even legal because it appears to have been signed off by David Hasselhoff. But the signing capped off a bit of a winning streak for the president. The biggest news being the Friday announcement of his total victory over Iran.

President Trump marches to victory. Trump told the media, Iran has agreed to everything. The announcement really sparked a huge surge on Wall Street, new record highs on the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ crude oil prices, falling off a cliff. Most of the points are already negotiated and agreed to. You'll be very happy. A great and brilliant day for the world.

If I may offer you a humble apology. I was one of the naysayers who said this president got us into a war on an impulse. I said this president didn't have a plan for a coherent exit strategy. I said this president was cavalier about the damage that this war of choice would cause. I said this president seems to slosh when he moves because of the venous insufficiency. You're like a milk carton when you go out and push across the kitchen table. And all of those things. And I would like to take back three of those statements.

He does slosh. But the president's allies knew all along what time it was. The president is playing chess when the rest of the world is playing checkers. That's how he does it. I can't believe at the beginning when the whole thing started that the rest of the world didn't say, wait, why are you playing? Why do you have a horse in a castle? And we have the little discs.

What kind of chess were they playing? He's playing three-dimensional chess. Four-dimensional chess. playing 5D chess. That's the chess where the seats move and they spray water at you. Analyst Dean Kane, could you expand on that? President Trump is playing 5D chess. The dominoes are slowly just falling and toppling.

What game is he playing? Is it playing chess and then the dominoes? He's at checkers ordering dominoes. The point is, I'm hungry. And while the world played jenga, Donald Trump is playing hungry, hungry hippos, whatever the analogy is. Because of Trump's brilliant interdimensional Jedi mind, he basically got everything

he wanted from Iran. Iran has removed or is removing all of the sea mines. No money will exchange hands in any way, shape, or form. They will never have a nuclear weapon. The USA will get all nuclear dust. Nuclear dust.

Does that mean we also get the nuclear dust bunnies? It's so adorn. How they beg for death. The enriched uranium was a huge part of this war. The fact that Iran has agreed to transfer all of its enriched uranium to the United States, it's a win. The Iranian Foreign Ministry says Iran's enriched uranium is not going to be transferred anywhere

under any circumstances. Checkers is a tougher game than I thought. All right, so there's still a couple of fine details to work out on the nuclear aspect, but the truth is, we only fought this war to get Iran. Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz. That they closed when we started this war. But let's keep the main thing, the main thing. Iran has just announced that the Strait of Hormuz is fully open and ready for business

and full passage. That news is Ibo-gain to my ears. Could Biden have done that? No, because as I said earlier, the strait was already open. But you heard it straight from the president. He declared the Strait of Hormuz is a problem. Iran declared the straight of Hormuz closed. Iran is directly contradicting President Trump.

He's not going to like that. On truth social, he wrote the following. The United States is going to knock out every single power plant, every single bridge in Iran. No more Mr. Nice Guy. Civilian infrastructure? Say hello to senior war crime. Audience seems to be split between old people and younger people.

Think of yourself, how did this happen? How did the certainty of talk about Total resolution that Trump announced morph into the uncertainty of total annihilation that Trump announced in less time than it took Carol G to own Coachella. Cool down. Hey. Who wants an edible? Multivitamin, an edible multivitamin. See, what the naysayers don't understand about Trump is that what appears to the outside observer as chaos is actually the 5D-focused structure.

of a master negotiator. This is the art of the deal. You know, we never got to see Henry Ford assemble a car, or Thomas Edison put the first filament into a light bulb, or Malcolm only fans reveal his bare foot in the town square. But thanks to God, the Iran War has given us all an opportunity. This is history to witness in real time. Donald Trump apply the sacred principles of the art of the deal.

Let's begin just a few weeks back. weeks back when Donald Trump and his bombing buddy Beebe launched fierce military strikes on Iran in the middle of a negotiation setting the stage for art of the deal step one state your demands the president declaring in a truth social post there will be no deal with Iran except unconditional surrender it's where they cry uncle or when they can't fight any long longer there's nobody around to cry uncle they cry uncle believe the president may be confusing war with tickle fighting, but the point is saying, I remember when Lee cried uncle at Appomattox.

Start every negotiation by demanding everything, which sets you up for step two art of the deal, the consequences of not exceeding to step one. We're going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks. We're going to bring them back to the Stone Ages where they belong. Yabababoo. Total surrender. or total destruction?

Game, set. And I'm sorry. Iran has shut down the Strait of Hormuz. Counter move. Shutting down the Strait of Hormuz. Well, cry me a whore river. What's that gonna do? The closure of the Strait of Hermuz, causing chaos to the global economy,

disrupting the global supply chain, causing gas and food prices to surge, skyrocketing jet fuel costs, sending fertilizer prices soaring, a global economic downturn that could ignite mass famine. All right, motherfuckers. I didn't want to have to do this.

Move like that, balance your run-of-the-meal dealmaker, but the master has already prepared a step three. The president wrote, Open the fucking straight, you crazy bastards, so you'll be living in hell. Three is basically steps one and two, but with cursing. Your move, Iran. Iran says the straight of Hormuz is still closed.

I see what you did there. Your move is no move. Which brings us to step four. Iran has agreed to open the straight of Hermuse. Boom! Motherf- Just say it's open. If you have a boat, what are you going to do? You're going to drive all the way there?

What are you going to go to the Strait of Hormuz Yacht and Regatta Club? Get the f***ed out of here. You didn't even know what the Strait of Hormuz was a month ago. Now you were a fucking expert on the Strait of Hormuz. It's open. It's open. Now the next part's tricky. Because at some point, even though you stated, very clearly that the Strait of Hormuz is open,

people are going to realize it's not open. They're still not getting food or fuel, because this is where the art of the deal, where the fourth dimensional chess comes into play. Breaking tonight, President Donald Trump saying the U.S. Navy will start blockading, quote, any and all ships trying to enter or leave the Strait of Hormuz. Might assume you've been winging it the whole time.

And they might be getting hungry or much poorer or cold. and they might have questions like, hey, Trump, do you even have a plan? Well, the art of the deal says, don't fall for that. I have the best plan of all, but I'm not going to tell you what my plan is. I don't know people like you about that. I mean, who would answer a question like that? Why would I tell you that kind of. Art of the deal, don't tell anyone your plan.

That would be the dumbest thing you could do, which brings us to step seven. Call up a news person and tell them your plan. I just spoke with the president this morning. The president said if they do not sign. the deal, the U.S. will blow up every power plant and more in Iran. But telling one person your plan, that's still just 4D chess. Step 8 is 5D chess. Tell everyone your plan.

I spoke to him on the phone this morning and told me several things. President Trump today told me if Iran does not sign this deal, the whole country is going to get blown up. In our short phone call, the president told me the strikes have caused very great losses on their leadership. She also told me he doesn't think boots on the ground will be necessary. He told me that they had agreed to talk. I just got off the phone with the president and he called.

You see how bummed out Brett Bear was that he called him? Yeah, I talked to the president. He called me. I had the number blocked, but yeah, you got there. So now everybody's on the same page. It seems like you're moving towards a resolution in a crisp and linear fashion. Everybody knows the plan. All that's left to do is send over a high-level negotiating team to work out the fine print and arrive at an enduring peace.

You've got the right where you want them, where you hit them with step nine. Who's talking to what now? The president's saying he intends to send vice president, J.D. vans, to Pakistan for a second shot at peace talks today. And an important clarification. I just got off the phone with President Trump. Yet again, he told me that Vice President Vance will not be leading the U.S. delegation.

But then less than two hours later, I was told that Vice President Vance would again lead this delegation. Vance on. With the art of the deal, basically it's a cycle. It's a cycle of demands and threats and premature declarations of victory that allows the negotiator enough wiggle room to at almost any point, claim that they've achieved exactly what they've set out to do. Ultimately, achieving a nuclear deal that will probably. be worse than the nuclear deal. Trump pulled our country out of with Iran to start a devastating war that has killed thousands of innocent Iranians, 13 American soldiers, eroded our credibility

as the leader of the free world, sabotage the world economy, and will cost the American taxpayers, who knows, maybe trillions. And as that realization sinks in to a population weary of your malignant narcissism and impulsivity, Trump hits him with step 10. Cupid's going to be next. That's right, motherfucker, step 10. Keep moving to outrun the darkness. Accessing legitimate erectile dysfunction treatment options should be straightforward and affordable. Unfortunately, many men are deterred by the high cost of brand-name medications.

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That's why CBC News is putting more journalists in more places across Canada, reporting on the ground from where you, you live telling the stories that matter to all of us because local news is big news choose news not noise cbc news she is the current president of the united nations general assembly previously served as germany's federal minister for foreign affairs please welcome the program ambassador on elena berbach are you do you go by madam president your excellency ambassador what is what is the preferred title. Whatever you choose. Or Annalena.

But it's hard. It's an Lena, not Lena. Annalena. Yes. That sounds... And I said, Lina. Because, did I pronounce it correctly? I think you might be wrong. After 46 years, thank you. No, you're very welcome. I've been meaning to do that. You are the president of the United Nations

General Assembly. I think most people did not realize that there is a president of the General Assembly. How long is your term? What are the duties? Indeed. It's a very short term. It's only one year time.

So in German, we would say you are just being thrown into the water, the cold water we say in Germany. Sure. And then you just have to start swimming. And, yeah, the job is to bring the whole international family. So 193 to the table. Sounds quite similar. But in a time where one of these member states might have a nuclear weapon and the other one, one just has a conflict.

Imagine if you bring your family to the Thanksgiving table and you have the cranky uncle and you have your hippie mother, and then you just say, sing from the same songbook. It's also a hard job. So yes, in these times, we're not everybody is ready to sing from the same songbook anymore. My biggest task is actually to defend the songbook, the charter of the United Nations, peace and security,

sustainable development, and human rights. Right. For the United Nations. I believe it. In that analogy, does the crazy uncle or the hippie mom have the nuclear weapon? Well, frankly speaking in history, the woman hardly had the nuclear weapon. Now, this is happening. So as president, you are tasked with selecting, or at least doing the interviews for the next Secretary General.

Is that correct? Right. How many candidates do you have? Is this like a monster.com? How do you get candidates to be the Secretary General? How are they submitted? Is it controversial? Yes, and it will be probably the hardest job interview ever

because these 193 member states, they can all ask the question, be interviewed. So I'm presiding of it. It starts tomorrow, actually. So if you want to see it, yeah, live on UN Web TV. Wait, what? You're going to do this live. Yes.

Transparency. we do have in the international community. Let me ask you questions. What is the cutoff for resumes? And could I do it once a week? The interview? The job. The job?

Well, unfortunately, it's a 24-7 job. How many people are you interviewing? At the moment, four. So, yeah, the question was, so how is the process? You have to be nominated by a member state. Okay. There was a strong call for women. for women, so 193 members'

There's never been a woman's situation. Actually, read on one thing that they strongly called on the nomination of women. Yes, because for 80 years there never has been a woman. And I mean, women here probably and out there in the world, we have heard it all before. It was really hard to find one, but explaining that after 80 years,

you could not find a woman if you have four billion potential candidates, because they are four billion women and girls around the world. It's really hard to explain. Here's the other one too. My guess is they'll bring in a woman to run it just at the point where it's basically unrunnable. Is it runnable anymore at the UN? You have the Security Council which can veto. I mean, Russia and China vetoed a resolution to keep the Strait of Hormuz open.

That's where they, I mean, China gets a lot of its oil from the Strait of Hormuz, and they still vetoed it. How difficult is it to even wrangle these countries anymore for resolutions? If you want to have an easy job, that's not the right one. It's not the right to be at the U.S. But on the other hand, I mean there's always another option. So when they vetoed it in the Security Council and, yeah, to those watching, so they are the five permanent members, they do have the veto because for historical reasons. And there has been a new initiative because obviously the vetoes in the Security Council

led to the situation that in the past many conflicts could not be solved, and it was also to the damage for the United Nations, because it's about the credibility. So the majority of member states said, then you have to come to the General Assembly where all the 193 member states are. And this happened last week, so I called for this session saying this has to come now for the General Assembly. We had a big debate with many states underlining that in an interconnected world, what happened in one part of the world, affects everybody. So oil prices have exploded.

One country even declared the state of energy emergency, because obviously for poorer countries, this is a total disaster. It's devastating. So after this session, we saw the ceasefire negotiations coming back together

again. We have now this kind of unstable ceasefire. So hopefully, everybody understands now that in this situation, nobody can win if we're not coming back to diplomatic terms. And that the United Nations is

the only place where you can bring together all member states from around the world. Epcot Center. That's a place. I think it represents most people. Let me ask you a question. Are we putting too much on the United Nations?

You know, my image of the United Nations is like that. It's the general assembly and we come in and we make peace deals. But maybe that's never really been its function. It seems like what it does well-time resolution, what does that really do anyway if it's vetoed or not vetoed? But it seems what the UN does well is as kind of an international cleanup crew for the mess that the other nations make. You do foreign aid. You do foreign aid. You do have refugee programs. Is that something that the UN should would steer more into and should we

lower our expectations about their so-called peacemaking abilities? 100% right because from the first day on the United Nations was not meant to bring humankind to heaven but to prevent humanity from hell. So it's therefore the... I bet that sounds excellent in German. Well, yes. How about that? So, I mean, yeah, because we would go back to German history, it was unfortunately my country.

Exactly. You guys, yeah. And we learned our lessons, and it took, rightly so. My country back then also was a Cold War, being divided, to come to the international family again. But this is why also me personally, as a former foreign minister of my country, yeah. We are making so clear, without this, United Nations without the charter nothing in the world would be better off sometimes

people call the UN naive with all the morals and all the principles but the ground fathers and a few mothers they've been through the worst in life two world conflicts a genocide with six million Jews being killed back then also many many countries more than 50s 50 were still under colonial power so this house was built to have at least some And as you were mentioning, the vast majority of the work of the United Nations is to prevent conflict. Unfortunately, especially in these times, hate, click six times better. So the good stories hardly make it to the headlines. And journalists don't write about the war, which didn't happen.

We learned it also in COVID in the pandemic. There's no glory in prevention. But this is exactly the main work the UN is doing, preventing that... Different conflicts. that out of a famine, another war would happen, preventing that with regard to, for example, when we had the pandemic where no army in the world could stop the virus because it didn't have any passport. Even the strongest countries could not do it alone. It needed the United Nations with the World Health Organization to do the vaccination for half of the world's population children going around.

That we don't have smallpox anymore. This is thanks to the UN. I mean, you haven't been downtown. Believe me. Since Mom Donnie, there's a whole. What I'm wondering about is it's the sense that, you know, the changes that might be made in the UN to deal with all these various conflicts and things that are coming up are overwhelmed by this new order of world power play,

that people are rebelling against this idea of globalization. whether it comes through international norms of an international court or the United Nations. You know, the United Nations is the black helicopters. It's the New World Order. It's all those things. When in large part, it seems like a place where it may be overly bureaucratic, but they're trying to get aid or take an international mechanism to help those that have been most hurt by the calamities that the great powers. have visited upon the earth.

If you were going to, what changes would you make at the UN to maybe make it more effective? Or is there a way to sell it to the new populist regimes that want nothing to do with international order? They don't want international climate treaties. They don't want international peace treaties, it seems. They don't want international rules of order. They want might make right. How does the UN deal with that? Many questions in one.

So maybe... That's right. You have 20 seconds. I can cherry... That's the best what politicians can do. We are very short in answering questions. So, I know, 30 seconds are over.

No, no, no, no. Please, take your time. We got plenty of time. It's basic cable. Nobody's watching. I cherry pick. I cherry pick. Well, first of all, you're 100% right.

the main job is to bring food literally to the people. And this is what I said also when we started this so-called 80th session, actually the 80th anniversary, not so much to celebrate at these times at the UN, but when we started the 80th session, speaking in front of all heads of states, remembering them no single day would the world be better of without the United Nations. because millions of people would literally stop. You could not enter an airplane safely, none of us, because the Civil Aviation Organization is based with the United Nations.

So for all of us, it's in our interest and not only for the people around the world to have this United Nations. But on the other hand, obviously, something might is right, but we have seen also lately with the straight of Hormuz that obviously this conflict does not only affect everybody but also you need the support of others to open the strait of Hormuz and this is why for me it's crystal clear the International Peace Order, the Charter of the United Nations,

is a life insurance for everyone. And nobody could sleep in silence and peace if we would accept that a bigger neighbor can just invite, invade their neighboring country in the future. And as you mentioned, the climate crisis, I mean, you can deny it. You can just pretend it's not there, but we could see all over the world the wildfires, which also do not stop at the richest neighborhoods in every country around the world, because like the pandemic and the virus, also CO2 doesn't have a passport.

And it will just spread all over the world, so we can only fight it. together in our own interest. Would you like to see the UN have more teeth in terms of enforcement, like where they could levy fines? Do they levy fines? I don't know what they can do. I know there's certain peacekeeping things. But let's say somebody does violate international norms, international law,

UN, I mean, the UN has said Israel has violated treaties, and yet nothing happens to them. What could happen? Can they levy fines? Can they charge countries? Like in baseball, if you throw at somebody? Well, it's not the world police. Yeah, so you cannot just say...

What if it were the world police? Well, we tried it with some courts. For example, the international criminal court, unfortunately, the biggest powers, they did not ratify. But this is, again, the strengths of the United Nations. You have to keep out of it. You have to keep trying. Others said, we move forward.

And this court, as you ask, can you try people? Yes, they did. they tried one of the biggest war criminals when we had the Balkan wars, when we had... Talking about Belosovich. Yes, we had Scrabbits. So, genocide going on. So they tried them in front of a court. Now, for example, with regard to the Philippines, they had the dictator back there.

So there's an international arrest warrant, and he will be probably tried in front of the ICC, the ICC, the International Criminal Court. others who have not ratified it, for example, with Assad, then it's not possible, but they are also arrest warned. You mentioned a couple of them with different wars going on right now. So these... Who's the worst country right now? Well, I'm the president... Is it us? I'm the president of the General Assembly speaking on behalf of all of them. Right. Who would they all say is the worst country?

Well, obviously, the worst are those who deny dignity from other human beings. and this is why we have to stand up for it every day. Otherwise, coming back to my own country again more than 80 years ago. Why is it so hard for us to learn that lesson? It really blows my mind that this idea that violence and might makes right to take us back to a world that we were when colonial powers and imperial powers ruled. And war was inevitable in almost every location. it's almost shocking to see how far we've come,

and yet people want to go back to that much more barbaric way of governance. Is that what's talked about in the halls? Or are the halls of the UN a more administrative place than a philosophical place? Well, this is a philosophical question. That's why I'm not in the halls of the UN. Yeah. So I would say all, because it's just the diversity of the whole world. And you asked before, what do we have to do and what would be the biggest task? For me and the Secretary General Antonio Guterres at the moment to reform the United Nations,

to make it more efficient because the truth is as well. And I'm not a fan of sugar coating. So we have to face it, that over 80 years, it has built up on mandates resolution by resolution. So we have 40,000 mandates, obviously not very efficient, yeah. So in every company, you would just modernize your system. And this is what we're doing right now. We're in the midst of a deep reform called UN80. But at the other hand, you should not use the shortcomings in trying to destroy the whole house.

And this is where we are faced in. And you were addressing also the financial situation. If member states, and unfortunately also the host. country do not pay their bill anymore. Obviously, this house cannot function. And in a situation that people, especially children, are dying in this minute, you have, like, rotten eight in warehouses. This is obviously a situation which cannot go on. So therefore, as a president of the General Assembly, I can only recall that no day would be better of without the UN. And this is why we should all strengthen this House of Peace and this House of Humanity.

Have you thought about... Oh, please. I couldn't agree more that it needs to be reformed. And so my last question is, have you thought about letting the Ellisons buy it? So they ran Skydance. It's a very small production house. And then they bought Paramount, which is kind of a larger place. And then for some reason bought Warner Brothers.

And now they own it. We all work for them. They could add the UN easily. They have so much money. Well, as I just said, we have like an open call, yeah, for candidates. Interviews start tomorrow, Parker, such an a hot house. We'll be right back after this. It's something else here now.

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