The Daily Show: Ears Edition - This Week's News | Jon Stewart on Elmo’s Knicks Betrayal & Desi Lydic on Trump’s Iran Oil Heist

Episode Date: June 13, 2026

Get caught up on the latest headlines with the Daily Show team. Jon Stewart calls out Elmo’s disloyalty to the New York Knicks and covers Trump storming out of his “Meet the Press” interview with Kristen Welker. Desi Lydic dives into the infectious outbreak of Knicks fever sweeping New York City, Trump leading an oil heist through the Strait of Hormuz instead of ending the war in Iran, Spencer Pratt’s mayoral primary loss in L.A., Melania’s robotic speech at an AI event, the president napping through the Knicks game, and OG Anunoby’s oddly laid back reaction to his Game 4 upset. -- The Daily Show airs weeknights at 11/10c on Comedy Central. Stream full episodes on Paramount+ Follow TDS: YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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You're listening to Comedy Central. Tonight is game three. The excitement in New York is palpable. The New York Knicks are now two wins away from doing something they have not done since Richard Nixon was in office. Was that necessary? The Nixon reference? Oh, the last time the Knicks won.

The flu was treated with leeches. No. I know it's been a long time. Look at me. We're all excited here. Everyone in New York is rooting for the Knicks. Well, almost everyone. Abuse that's piling up online for Elmo.

After he tried to be neutral about the NBA finals, Sesame Street Star posted, Elmo hopes both teams have fun. You fucking kidding me, Elma? Today, Sesame Street is brought to you by the letter B for Elmo's fellow New Yorkers responded to his wavering with our trademark grace and understanding. New Yorkers didn't like that. They unleashed some fury on him, blasting Elmo as a traitor, telling him to pick a side.

The city's transportation department even threatened, don't make us take this down, bro. Happy Elmo? You're going to make the New York Department of Transportation leap into action and take that sign down 10 to 12 years from now. But seriously, because Elmo's not going to be the game, but it is a hot ticket. So much so, even the President of the United States has Nick's fever. He's dyed his face, Nick's orange, and the back of his hands, Nick's, let's say, purple. The president's going to be attending the game this evening, and New Yorkers couldn't be happier.

I swear to God, this New York, everybody got up for Trump, bro. Man, I'm not going to let's be a shit. Stop. We're going to a booed out of you. You know, in New York, no matter what, you race, color, or creed, well, we all sound just a little Italian. Still, as a New Yorker and a Knicks fan, like the rest of us, he's probably been in a great mood this weekend because of the series, and he's looking forward to the game. Meet the press is crooked, and so is ABC and CBS and CNN. But Mr. President.

Your one-sided crooked network, so let's call it quits because I've had enough. Thank you, darling. Have a good time. Holyish. Storming out because he didn't like to question now. You could view this as the hissy fit of an incredibly fragile man baby whose paper thin skin can't handle venturing out of the sycophantic embrace of his tongue-bathing acolytes. Or actually, I don't know how else you could deal it. It really is just that. It's sad because the interview with Kristen Welker of Meet the Press began as more of a rom-com meat cute.

As we're having this conversation, we can hear a little bit of rain. A lot of rain. A lot of rain. Is that wind or what? Nice rain. If you like Pina colada of getting caught. The rain is sweet as long as it's not accompanied by scary sky booms.

Hear that sound of thunder, lightning. People will understand. We're in a farm. Sure, you city slickers, whether you lack of rain and trans weather, whatever you have up there. And by the way, when did Trump go to his stylist and go, hey, give me the Hugh Grant oompa-oompa?

Trump was having a lovely time. So how did it go from, look at us, having a wonderful conversation in the rain, to f*** you and the network you wrote in on? Because the interview began, like so many other ones for Trump, reasonable question, ridiculous answer. Okay, fine. Is this a war as long as there's a naval blockade in place?

Well, we have a blockade. It's been extremely effective. You'll see things like you've never seen. The oil will go down. The stock market already, as you know, it's at an all-time height. I don't consider that a war, but if you want to define it as such, I guess you can't. Well, how do you define it? I don't define it at all. I don't think about it.

I just do what I have to do. Sure, why not? I believe it was William to comes to Sherman, who said, war as hell, I guess. I don't really think about it. But then we get to a moment when the Heartland Rainswept Rom-com becomes a man trapped in a bar with his worst nightmare, a woman who won't stop asking pertinent questions. Mr. President, one of your consistent campaign promises

was no new wars. What changed because you insisted no new wars? Well, I didn't guarantee no war. Bullshit! Listen, live through his campaign. Know that he made that kind of a centerpiece. He said this. Under Trump, we will have no more wars.

And he also served this. I'm not going to start war. I'm going to stop wars. Of course, he also said this. I'll keep you out of wars. So no wars again? We won't have wars again. But this reporter on this day had the temerity to mention to Donald Trump that, well, actually, he did say that.

all the time. But you said it over and over again. Oh shit. She just lit the fuse on the bullshit bomb. In the midst of the greatest stock market in history, in the midst of the most successful country. Ten!

No! A couple of years ago, we were a dead country, now we have the hottest country anywhere in the world. You know, I gave farmers last term $28 billion because China took advantage and other people. And you know, paid for it. Fort China.

Four, three, two. I built a thousand miles of wall on our southern border. The election was rigged. It was a dirty election. Boom! Safe. In case of journalism, break glass. The epipen in case you've been stung by reality.

But finally, in this instance, when he went to the rigged election, oh, sweet Jesus, finally, his universal get out of interview card did it. didn't work. You've never presented evidence. It's happening right now in California. Right now it's looking, look at what's happening. Where's the evidence to that? Where's the?

Trump's fail safe? Failed too safe. And now he's left with but two options. One, to reckon with the fact that his claims of a 2020 stolen election have never survived even the slightest of legal scrutiny and that despite having six years and his own justice department at his beck and call, he has never presented a shred of a shred of. credible evidence or even a theory of a credible case as to how this 2020 election was rigged or he could do his second option smoke bomb let's call it quick because i've had enough

thank you darling have a good time we all know trump's not actually going to leave the building because it's raining out and as moisture is the natural enemy of the north american comb over. But this is where Kristen Walker nearly undoes all of the good work she did, with one of the worst pleas in the history of journalism. Mr. President, let's please, I travel all the way to Wisconsin. Can't leave, sir. I was in business class. Mr. President, please, Wisconsin, Wheel of Fortune is on an hour earlier here. These people are savages. They're Chinese restaurants.

Only serve Sejuwon. No Cantonese to be found. We'll all die of consumption. But you know what? Maybe finally this moment will give journalists permission to not back down. To not just leave it there and move on.

And to finally be honest about Trump's inability to be challenged in the moment. I spoke with President Trump on Saturday and we both acknowledge the complications during the interview posed by the rain. You were inside! You did that!

No! Donald Trump was not thrown off by the ambient noise during the interview. In fact, ambient farm rain is the least disruptive noise environment. He conducts interviews in... These are real clips of his interviews that we have not edited the audio on at all.

He wasn't aggravated by the rain. Donald Trump didn't storm out because of the rain. He stormed out because he was challenged, not because he was distracted. So maybe it's time we stopped making excuses for that man in order to preserve access to his constant bullshit. He agreed to sit down with me for another Meet the Press interview. Thank you.

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And acknowledge the MVP who won it for the Spurs. Game three referee Mark Davis. Dude, what the hell was that? I mean, don't get me wrong, I think it's great that the NBA lets someone watch their first game ever right from the court, but you do realize the B and B ball doesn't stand for a blindball bitch, right? No, no, no, no, no, no.

We're going to be nice, okay? In fact, we all chipped in together to get you a gift card to Lenscrafters, you blindball bitch. Still, this was the first finals game in New York in 27 years. So all the celebrities came out. You had Timothy Shalameh, Derek Jeter, DJ Khalid looking at his phone. Ben Stiller, Spike Lee, DJ Khalid, still looking at his phone.

Jay-Z, Larry David, and DJ Khalid showing Fat Joe something on his phone. What are you doing, man? You're court side at the finals. Unless you were Googling how to go down on your wife, pay attention. Also, in attendance last night, was the only New Yorker who spends more time in court than the Knicks. President Donald Jumpshot. We were there, too.

Okay. The city gave him a very New York welcome. Rights and rules. With some respect for the commander-in-chief. That's President Pussy to you. Do you know what it means to have every single person in New York? booing you? Even a guy taking a shit on the subway will have one New Yorker cheering him on. What can I say? I love to see a man comfortable in his own skin.

Ten years later, we're still married. But yeah, all that incessant booing, he must have been devastated. It was certainly amazing. It was, I think, mostly cheers. I guess the DOJ redacted all the booze before they hit his ears. I like that Trump was there or not. He is... or not, he is a lifelon Knicks fan, so he wasn't going to let some haters stop him from enjoying every second of the game. During the game, President Trump appeared to fall asleep. Buh. Through the game. You're the president, not game three referee Mark Davis.

So much, I hope every time you microwave something, it's just a little bit cold in the middle. From New York to the only other city in the world, Los Angeles. Because Trump was also having a bad night there. major shakeup in the race to be mayor of Los Angeles. Reality TV stars Spencer Pratt, the Republican who was endorsed by President Trump, was running second for a very long time, but he fell to third place as the rest of the primary votes started coming in. President Trump now raising unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud, posting on true social,

not possible for Spencer Pratt to have lost the L.A. runoffs after the big lead he had, rigged elections. They're cheating on the election. Do you have evidence to support that? All I have to do is look. All I have to do is look. All you have to do is look, people. It's right there in front of you.

I know it sounds easy, but for Donald Trump, it's getting harder and harder these days. Idol curiosity. Do Republicans have any actual evidence for this rigging? What evidence is there to prove that there was a ring? Some of these efforts are so diabolical and so far upstream that is impossible to prove. Diabolical.

The fact that there is no evidence is the evidence. See? See, voter fraud isn't about what you can prove up here. It's about what you feel in here and what you can pull out of here. Taken some time to get where they are, but that doesn't mean it's rigged. Also, I'm sure they're going to finish the vote counting any minute now.

California has a lot of rules that make this very, very slow. They have a complicated system where if somebody does a mail-in vote that is mailed before actual election day, that can be counted over the next seven days. Nearly a week after election day, the state's most populated county says it still has about 355,000 mail-in ballots to process. Holy shit, you have that many ballots left to count?

Why is it taking so long, California? Are you counting the ballots? Are you having tantric sex with them? Look, California, I know you want to make sure everyone gets a chance to vote, but the longer you take with the ballots, the more you open up the door to mistrust in the process. That being said, Republicans, you guys can't just go around screaming something is rigged every time you lose.

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Yesterday at the White House, Melania hosted an 8. event, continuing the long tradition of First Ladies in Tech, from when Eleanor Roosevelt set the high score at Guitar Hero 5, to when Nancy Reagan debuted the first d-sucking machine. True pioneer. And Melania was so excited about AI, she even did an impression of it. Today is about opening doors. When the doors open, passions flow. Courage blossoms and dreams are realized.

AI inspires. Use this chapter of your life to sail away with your dreams. ...to the chapter of your life on the rocket ship of your courage as you blossom into the stars. What was the prompt to write that speech? Chat GPT, give me metaphors. Give me metaphor. No, give me all metaphors.

Although, to be fair, this isn't just some one-off thing Melania's doing. She's been into dystopian technology for a while now. AI is extending the conceptual in ways never dream of before. AI will serve as the underpinning of every business sector in our nation. Robots hold steady hands in the operating room.

Movie characters, scripts, fashion, music, art, the entire ecosystem, all with AI. The shift from soldiers to machines is already underway. Autonomous helicopters, swarming drones, fighters, less jets, and autonomous bombers are on the way. The robots are here. The robots are here asking you to join us, I mean them.

Dem, 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. Tehran and the U.S. trading blows now. Iran's downing of an American helicopter prompting a fiery U.S. response.

Were trading blows again? This is not good. By the way, fun fact, trading blows was a setting on Nancy Reagan's d-sucking machine. It was a good one. So what happened exactly? Officials say, an Iranian drone

brought down a U.S. Apache helicopter patrolling the street. The pilots rescued in a first of its kind operation by an unmanned surface vessel, a drone boat. Sorry, 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 rowboats are here. Beautiful mystery. You were right. I am sorry I ever doubted you. Delete previous insults. It's crazy that this war is not wrapped up already. What is the president doing that's more important than ending this conflict?

The Trump family is promoting this week's UFC fight at the White House by selling gold commemorative coins. The Freedom 250 silver and gold medallions feature Trump's face, and are being marketed as a collaboration between the UFC and the Trump organization. Ending the war is important, but a collab with UFC. I mean, that doesn't come along every day. Although I'm not really sure that a coin is the right way

to commemorate a UFC fight. Seems like the kind of thing you commemorate with a tramp stamp. I always love when I can use a photo on myself on the show. But a coin seems a little weird, like a weird fit for UFC bros, doesn't it? The only thing I love more than fighting is cheer. Sershing sweet memories with decorative coinage. But fine, okay, if I was a blood sport-loving coin collector, I'd be willing to pay, what, 10, maybe $15 for this thing?

Let me just take a sip of water while I hear how much it costs. The price for the coins ranges from $250 to as high as $12,000. I only drink Evian. Sorry, I wasn't paying attention. What was the price? $12,000. What? I'm with a used Honda Civic?

Donald Trump, no amount of money is too small for him to try to grift someone out of. The guy will skim off $2 billion with a global crypto scheme one week, and the next will try to steal your uncle's beer money with a coin that's got his face on it. And by the way, why does a coin commemorating a UFC fight have to have Donald Trump's face on it? Who designed this thing? The site says they are all designed by President Trump himself. No, Trump? Yeah, no, that makes sense.

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This morning, the Knicks mounting the greatest comeback in NBA finals history. Thompson gets it, fires up a three. And watch parties around New York breaking out into bedlam. Nix and five! Nix and five! Many fans erupting even in the skies. Amazing! Although those passengers shouldn't celebrate too hard.

Wembe could swat you out of the sky. But oh my God, winning in the final moments after being 29 points behind? Wasn't it just a win for the Nix? It was a win for all of us who like to put things off until the last minute. Looks like I'm not going to do me. Looks like I'm not gonna do my taxes, but just wait until I've got two seconds left on the clock. All just goes to show you never, ever give up on your dreams.

Unless your dreams are to beat the Knicks and the finals, because that shit ain't happening it. Fans were that excited. The guy who actually won the game must have been losing his damn mind. You just hit the game-winning shot in an NBA finals game in front of your home crowd. How does that feel? It feels cool.

I mean, everyone's pretty excited. I'm excited too. I mean, I really wanted to be a dancer, but you know, basketball's cool, too. Let's move on to our top story because the good vibes just keep on rolling. Turns out the Iran war is almost over. Breaking news from the White House where President Trump has just called off his threat to bomb Iran tonight. He, quote, understands that the Supreme Leader of Iran has approved of a deal to end the war with Iran. With the straight wall officially open, as soon as we sign, which could be soon, very soon, maybe over the weekend.

In Europe, I won't be able to be there. A ceremony you just invented. It's important than ending of war. Donald Trump will ring in his 80th birthday with a UFC cage match on the White House lawn. Sense, okay, because peace in the Middle East is one thing, but a UFC fight is obviously more important. You know, it's like how Franklin Roosevelt missed the end of world. War II to be at WrestleMania. Unless of whether Donald Trump is there or not, the U.S. and Iran have reached a deal.

Iran says they have not reached any sort of deal. Maybe the war will keep going on for a while. But listen, don't worry, Trump is going to win this war. It's guaranteed. He's up like 29 points. And if you're worried in the meantime about gas prices, relax because Trump announced an amazing surprise. Under pressure from rising gas prices, the president also

touted what he said was a secret U.S. effort to guide oil through the Strait of Hormuz. We've been taking out millions of barrels of oil. Nobody knows it. You know who doesn't know about it? Iran until right now. Oh. Apple's Iran. Trump has been sneaking out millions of barrels of oil from the Strait, and you never knew about it because it was never reported. The effort has been previously reported about it. Well, the New York Times reported it, but Iran doesn't read the Times.

They just subscribe to play connections. Okay, but maybe Iran knows, but Trump says we took out 100 million barrels last month. That's got to be what, like a year's worth of oil? The president this week said the military has helped move 100 million barrels of oil, which is about one day's worth of global oil consumption. One day? You're bragging about taking a month to steal one day of oil?

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