The Daily Show: Ears Edition - This Week's News | Jon Stewart on the Botched Iran Deal & Josh Johnson on Trump's Reflecting Pool War

Episode Date: June 26, 2026

Catch up on all the latest headlines with The Daily Show team. Jon Stewart unpacks how Trump completely botched his own war with Iran as Republicans lash out against the terms of his peace deal. Josh Johnson investigates the bright green water taking over the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which the president responded to by installing security cameras to hunt down potential pool "vandals." Plus, Zohran Mamdani helped three progressive candidates win in New York's primary elections, and Trump couldn't resist using the mayor's "kingmaker" moment to hype his own endorsement prowess. -- 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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The Trump administration continues to try and find a solution to an intractable, problematic waterway in a dangerous part of the world. Mounting problems at the reflecting pool on the National Mall. You are looking right now at what is, rapidly turning into a $16 million headache for the White House. Damn you, hath socialism wrought! To our beloved symbol of national ankle-deep waiting. Pieces of that new coating began peeling off.

Phosphate levels far higher than what is recommended. A significant algae bloom has turned the water into a sea of green. And he's really fucking green. How did you realize? That shit's neon. Did they replace the water with mountain dew? What is... I mean, didn't they just have a pool company

coming and fix it? How did it get so green? One of those companies, green water services. Quite perplexing. How did it get so green? I kid, of course. It's not about the name. I'm sure green water services.

It's a very reputable company that fairly won the reflecting pool contract because of their expertise and track record. The administration paid a company to do the work in a no-bid contract. The company's owned by a trust run by Republican donor, John Kaffaro. That's the pool guy. That guy, that's the pool guy. Does Trump do business with anyone normal?

Even the pool guy looks like an extra from guys and dolls. It's like Donnie Brasco got stung by a beat. I'm sorry, to be fair, that's probably an old picture from like the 80s when Gomez Adams was the raise. Do we have a recent picture of this guy that we can? Are you rapment? This guy. He's a Moralago neighbor and has given more than $300,000 of the political committee is tied to the president. Back in 2001, Kaffaro pled guilty to conspiracy to bribe then-Congressman James Trafficking Jr.

The pool guy, the pool guy bribed the congressman, and now he gets the, The pool comes. That tracks. What do I do? Let's just say I'm in the chlorine management business. Well, if you're like me when you first heard that the reflecting pool had algae, you probably thought yourself, well, I hope the president of the United States is personally involved with overseeing this.

President Trump says he personally inspected the site. Oh, good. That's good. I'm glad. I believe he posted a picture of that excursion. Oh, there you know. I'm just curious, wait a minute. That's not actually me.

You know what I don't like about that picture? Can I tell the truth about this? This is an AI-generated image, right? And the picture of that person does happen to look a lot like me. But what that means is, I am AI's idea of a person that is old and needs to be healed. Donald Trump is personally overseeing the pH balance of Abe Lincoln's kiddie pool. Who is handling the high-stakes incredibly fragile Iranian-truth negotiations? Hey guys.

We should have sent Cigarface. Cigar face would have taken care of it. Unless you want your whole fucking to have green water. All right. I will give J.D. Vance a chance. These are the kind of negotiations that will require steely-eyed focus on the American side. And I'll bet J.D. Vance has just the right touch of gravitas and tact. I have joked that I have two very, very important people in my life in Indian and a Pakistani.

The Indian is my wife and the Pakistani is field marshal Munir. My wife's Indian. This dude's Pakistani. What I always say, people, two browns don't make a white. Is it a rabbi, my wife, and field marshal Munir walk into a bar? It's a risky move on Trump's part, given that the first time he sent J.D. Vance overseas, J.D. Vance killed Pope Francis. So, Pope Francis lived in leper colonies, in, in, in... has went through so much in his life, survived, spent 10 minutes with J.D. Vance, and went, check please, I'm out. Unfortunately, the negotiation meeting seemed to get off to an even

worse start. Social media claims that Vice President J.D. Vance was snubbed by cuttery officials during those weekend talks in Switzerland. There's a viral video going around that showed Vance standing alone as leaders around him exchanged hugs and greetings. Eddie Vance really answers the question. What if a middle school dance were a person? My mom's coming soon. I'm going to get out of here. But things just went from bad to wallflower,

with Vance getting more and more exasperated as the mean girls just couldn't see that he has a lot to offer too. And why would they possibly so mad? Wait a second. You know what? I actually think this might not have been a diplomatic snub. This might have been the result of a health code violation.

Can we take a... A quick look at the footage again. There's J.D. Vance. Oh, he went for the skin wipe. Diplamatic faux pa. It's second only to the men's room, Pian Peak. Which, as many of you know, started the Franco-Prussian War. But you know what?

It doesn't really matter. It doesn't matter who we sent. Because there's not a lot of wiggle room in these negotiations. President Trump has been very clear about what's expected. The president said there will be no deal with Iran except unconditional surrender. Tata. So basically, J.D. Vantzzi, is just there to pick up the white flag.

Get it signed. Hand out a couple of orange slices. Call it a game. For all you knit-pieceers out there wondering, well, what does surrender even mean? Very simple. They laid it out quite clearly. We want to see no nuclear bomb,

no nuclear weapon, not even close to it. I say no enrichment. They wanted for civilian, you know, for civil. Civil. I think it's uncivil. We also want the enriched uranium. Destroying Arens, Missile, capabilities and their capacity to produce brand new ones. No money will exchange hands in any way, shape, or form.

So we already know what the deal is. So why don't we go through the deal point by point? Probably isn't going to take much time at all, pretty simple. Number one, they have to give us all their valuable nuclear material. It's actually not valuable. Not a lot of value, but we'd like to get it psychologically, but nobody's touching it. Okay. Yeah.

So we're not actually going to get it, but at least they can't touch it. I mean, they can look at it. Looking is not cheating. As long as Iran doesn't use it for enrichment, you know, for military or civilian use, that's where we actually are drawing the line, right, Mr. Trump? Well, it is a little hard, though, when you say that somebody wants it, other people have it, other adjoining states have it, and you're not letting them have it for purposes of electricity and things like that.

It's always a little tough. you have to use a little common sense. You're the no nuclear guy. You're the one who said it. Now suddenly, I mean, you know, enrich a little bit. I mean, you know, I mean, you know, we all enrich nuclear material at some point. You know what I'm saying?

The point is we don't have to be such hard asses about the nuclear. Because really the main reason we went there was the ballistic missile program. That's why we're there. And we are definitely not budging on that. The conventional ballistic missiles, which we'll be talking about and support them. I mean, they have to have some because other people have some.

You've got to have some. Sir, you shouldn't let them have any missile. I said, well, what am I going to do? Are we going to let Saudi Arabia have missiles, but they can't have them? Yes, sir. It doesn't work that way, you know? It doesn't work that way. Like, where are the assholes?

Like, we were the assholes who were like, no missiles, no nuclear. And you're like, you got to be reasonable. We're just back in you. up. And now you're telling us, use your edge people. I mean, they got to have missiles. You never know when some impulsive assholes going to start bombing them out of nowhere. Let them have missiles. At least no money's changing hands. As for money, the U.S. pledges to help create a $300 billion reconstruction fund for Iran. Allowing Iran immediately to start selling its oil that could earn Iran $60 to $70 billion per year.

Also in this agreement, the unfreezing of Iranian assets, which could be upwards of $100 billion. So the hardline extremist regime of Iran gets a nuclear stockpile, missiles, and money. Iran is a circumcision away from being Israel. Now, wait, I don't actually know if Iranian circumcised, so that may not be. Well, you get my point. Sure, someone will leave that in the comment section. I don't know if their penises have the hijab. I don't know.

Maybe they just have where you just see the penis's eyes. There's no graphic for that joke, by the way. If this is what we're giving the Iranians, I don't understand why the Iranians are snubbing J.D. Vance. They should be kissing his booger-laden ring. I mean, what does America get for all these concessions? Yesterday was a very, very good day. We made a lot of good progress.

Oh, yeah. Go get them, Joan Diddy and Vance? What kind of project? Go get them, old Jamountain Dew Vance. I knew you'd come through. What did we get? The Iranians have agreed to invite IAEA inspectors back into their country.

That is a major milestone for the American people. Oh, yeah, that's a big milestone. We haven't had nuclear inspectors in Iran since, oh, when you started bombing them last year. The Iran inspectors went in there after the JCPOA that Obama negotiated, and they only left when we attacked Iran. So just out of curiosity, why did we tear up the Obama deal with Iran again? That horrible Iran nuclear deal, that horrible, stupid deal.

The stupidity of that deal, will we give $150 billion we get nothing? The deal allowed Iran to continue enriching uranium. It also fails to address the... regime's development of ballistic missiles. Who would make a deal so stupid is that? The dumbest deal I've ever seen, the worst deal ever negotiated of any kind. Yeah, what kind of the dumb f***? You know, at the time, I guess the theory is, why trade smaller concessions with Iran

for peace when we could instead lose a war with them and make bigger concessions? Well, I hope you learned your lesson, Iran. There's plenty more concessions where that came from. You mouth off again, and you're getting Greenland. Let's just make the best of it. J.D., can you at least tell us the nuclear inspectors will be starting right away to secure the uranium? In terms of when the nuclear inspectors are going to start,

it's funny we were trying to call some of the inspectors last night around two in the morning. As you can expect, not many people were answering their phone at two in the morning. Is that funny, though? We've been at war for four months, and no one thought to call the nuclear inspectors before 2 a.m. last night. It's really less funny than just shitty foresight and planning.

Honestly. I mean, if you ever wondered, who the fuck buys luggage at an airport? That's our negotiating tape. Walking through the airport, just carrying my shit my thing in exchange for letting Iran have like half a trillion dollars. If there is any frozen Iranian assets that are unfrozen, the money would actually go to buy American soy,

American corn and American wheat for the benefit of the Iranian people. A classic Trump deal. Oh, it is a classic Trump deal. Announce a bold action with grandiose ambition and then shit the bed

and then state confidently that bed shit was the goal all along. And then finally, name the bed after Trump. Yes, folks, we went to war with Iran to force them to take money to buy our crops. Win, win! How did no one else figure this out?

How did no other president have the foresight to bomb a country into a crop-buying spree? Well, I think one big difference, Phil, is that we have a smart president, whereas in the past we've had dumb presidents. Adding... Reeses knows a thing or two about great combinations. Chocolate and peanut butter?

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to see which country has the most athletic black people. But one country has been making their presence known a little more than the rest. South Florida's getting taken over by the Scottish this week for the World Cup, turning Little Havana into an international street party. This is so fun. Also, I'm just happy to see an all-white parade where they're not chanting about the Jews. I'm not sure about the bagpipes, though. You know the Loch Ness Monster is back in Scotland right now.

like, finally, I can get some sleep. The only reason I'm so elusive is because I don't want to hear those damn bagpipes. But let's get to the big story. It has now been 10 weeks since the start of the war that has come to define Donald Trump's second term. So let's get right into our continuing coverage of the Washington, D.C. reflecting pool. Looks like shit. Ever since the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool turned bright green, which is a thing I just said like it's talking.

It's become the first breakout hit of the summer. Tourists are actually flocking to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to catch a glimpse of the controversial renovation. It was kind of like disgusting. Like it looks like, like it's green. Like it looks like, it looks like vomit. And it smells really bad. I had to see for myself, I couldn't believe it.

Hey kids, remember you wanted to go to Disneyland? Instead, we're going to go see the world's largest kombucha. You know, everybody's complain about the pool, but they're coming out to see. I'm not saying it's better this way. I'm just saying it seems to be pretty popular. This is how far America has fallen. The last time we collected this many people around the reflecting pool was for civil rights.

People were like, we must come out to support Dr. King. 60 years later, we're like, a slimy pool. This I gotta see. Now, anyone who's ever owned a swimming pool or a fish tank or a bong that they never wash will not be surprised that there's algae in the pool the pool and a shallow pool like this with a dark bottom in hot weather is particularly hard to keep clean. I know that because half the people I follow on social media are pool experts

all of a sudden. This is a completely natural and expected development, but Donald Trump thinks there's something else to blame. We have a, I think, 290, 300 foot slit right through, and probably a box cutter or a knife of some kind. They cut it very violently. The same thing with the floor, they cut it, and then they lifted it, they pulled it. I can't help it if somebody goes in with a knife and starts hacking it up. Who would think that somebody would go into a pool and take a knife and start cutting it?

Yeah, who would think of something like that two months ago? This will last for at least 50 years, and you'll never have a leak. It's very strong. You couldn't, if you had a knife, I don't want to give anybody ideas. If you had a knife, you can't even cut it.

I've never seen someone have a lot. of logic so stupid they reverse inception themselves. Me from before had the idea to never. I told myself it couldn't be done and then I forgot. That's why it happened. Look, I'll admit right now I'm one of Trump's biggest haters, but Donnie, let me help you out. You have got to chill. People are not shanking the pool at night. Also, algae can't be that hard to get rid of. I mean, damn, you got one of the biggest algae eaters in your cabinet.

Send him down to the pool. He'll be like, mm, looks like soup. Broccoli cheddar. The point is, don't go around escalating the situation. This morning, the National Guard and Park Police patrolling the reflecting pool on the National Mall. There are cameras stationed every 50 yards or so.

The president had Marine One do a flyover around the reflecting pool. According to the White House, 17 police reports have been filed for vandalism, leading to six arrests. Dang, you're treating the reflecting pool like Epstein drowned in it. Just imagine what Iran must be thinking right now. They turn on the TV like, where are the Americans plotting to send their force?

Damn. Are they even thinking about us? And I get Trump's disappointed because, according to him, this was going to be the best pool in the history of water. President Obama, President Biden, spent much more than $100 million on the Reflecting Lake. You know what they got out of it?

A closed link. I'm doing the super job, and it's going to be much better. It's going to be something very special. It'll be, I think, very reflective. Very, very good. It's like a piece of glass, beautiful color, beautiful, everything. You could never get anything like that. It's going to look better than it did in 1922 when it was built.

A Lincoln Memorial, look at that. Beautiful. Look at how that reflects. It's like a mirror. See, that's your problem right there. You talked it up so much, you jinxed it. Now I want to let him build the ballroom. Just see I'm how bad it turns out. I bet it disintegrates at the first cha-cha slide. The lesson here is Trump, you gotta wait until after you do something to flex.

If you had never made a big deal out of the pool, no one would have noticed. I mean, RFK would still be down there because to him that's yummy. But Trump basically shot a buzzer beating game-winning shot, turned around and threw his hands up in the air to celebrate, and then instead of going in, it missed and killed a baby duckling. Now you got people across the country coming over to gawk at the fact that you turn the reflecting pool into a Kool-Aid bucket. And all your supporters in the media who should be defending your Iran disaster or your economic disaster have to defend this disaster. I think this is Trump derangement syndrome at its finest.

The far left will never get behind or celebrate anything that Donald Trump does. News flash, algae grows in stagnant water. President Trump is trying to make D.C. nicer. Because guess what, president should care about beauty. Only the Democrats could hate beautifying our nation's capital. They're rooting for his failure, and in this case, they're even rooting for algae. I'm sorry, this is not the point, but what is going on with Sean Handy's face? I mean, I have never seen white cheeks that big that haven't been wrapped about.

Like, I'm not trying to make fun of his looks or anything, but I mean, is he auditioning for a new chipmunks movie? Where Alvin eats Simon and Theodore? I bet you squirrels look at handy like how my nuts taste. It looks like the dentist's added wisdom teeth. Sean, you got to address this. You can't just walk in a room and sit down in front of a camera with a BBL on your face and act like we're not going to notice. You've got to address what's happening.

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if you're visiting for a very large sporting event and you happen to discover ranch while you're here, please pack it in your checked bag on the way home. Come on, TSA, do you really need to be so strict about this? No one's going to blow up a plane with a bottle of ranch. The bathroom, maybe, but not the plane. By the way, I like how there's one bottle of facewash of that photo. You know there's sub-bodega odor who's like,

Sarave, it's just a different flavor of ranch. It's not even that valuable. It's just ranch. You can make it at home. All you have to do is mix. Wait, what the hell is ranch? But let's move on to today's top story in our ongoing coverage, Indecision, 2026.

Last night was election night in America. Again, so if you were in a middle school gymnasium yesterday, hopefully that's the reason why. And while every election has its winners and losers, there was one guy who came out on top last night, who wasn't even on the ballot. Democratic Socialist mayor, Zora Mamdani, winning record this morning, three endorsement and three victories. The progressive candidates, he backed, won their House primary races. The king of New York City politics right now is Mayor Mamdani. He's the kingmaker, and he's in charge.

A socialist making kings? That's crazy. That's like if a capitalist made a hospital everybody could afford. But all right, Mom Donnie, all your candidates won last night. So take the victory lap. Preach to the people. We are showing there is a new path for politics in our city and in our country. Wait, did you guys hear that woman scream?

Play that again? That doesn't even sound like an election night scream. It sounded like hitting the drop at the tower tear screen. But now that she's got that out of her system, Let's hear Zoran speak. We are showing that last June, a year ago tomorrow, was not an anomaly. You're still being murdered, but that's great about the win, though.

Now, obviously, Republicans are mad about Mom Dynia's win, but it also pissed off the Democratic establishment, which is pretty insane because they're in your party. And Zoran, you need to watch out because you know what happens when establishment dims are mad at you. You get away with whatever you want. But there was one person who was willing to give Zoran his props and said game-recognized gang. President Trump posted this on truth social.

Mayor Mamdani pulled through three solid communists and has received loud and universal applause from the fake news media. Congratulations, Mr. Mayor. I went 16-0 last night helping to elect wonderful American patriots, and the media doesn't say a word. Over the past two years, he says my endorsement has netted 259 primary wins, almost no losses. Zero media attention, fake news. Trump sounds like someone at a birthday party trying to remind people it's also his birthday. He's just walking up like, hey, happy birthday, Margaret. Looks like we're both Gemini's, huh?

And yeah, technically, you know, I've been having this birthday longer, so you kind of stole it from me. But nobody talks about that. And I feel for Donald Trump because he is not wrong about his endorsement clout. In fact, another one of his congressional candidates won a surprise victory last. night in upstate New York. Thank you, President Trump. Businessman and sticker mule CEO Anthony Constantino riding a President Donald Trump

endorsement to victory. Okay, sticker CEO doesn't sound like a real job. Like if you went on a date and someone said, I'm the president of bouncy balls, you'd be like, okay, sounds like we're splitting it, got it, got it. But who is this guy? I'm endorsed by President Trump because I'm I fought for him. I want to detransition America. I don't like the transgender scam at all.

Just like I don't like the solar scam. I hate seeing these solar panels all over our farmland in upstate New York. It bothers me because they're ugly as hell. Wow. It's like my uncle's Facebook came to life. But don't let all the things that Constantino hates fool you. One thing I know about him is that he likes being funny and having fun. I know this because he told us. I like being funny. I like making people laugh. I like having fun. If you're not having fun in life, what else matters? Why does he look, why does he look like he's about to read off what my grandma left me at her will? I like being funny, but today's not about me. It's about Eunice Marie Johnson, a wonderful lady. Like the words he's saying are, I like to have fun,

but the tone is saying, I hit a cat with my car and felt nothing. But here's the other reason I know he's a fun guy. Constantino recorded a hip-hop album titled, Thank You, President Trump. I made a 10-song, patriotic album to persuade all Americans to be more patriotic and to see the world as we see it, using the power of music. All right, as black people, I know we had our phone. but I think we need to let rap go. It's over now. We lost it.

Don't get it wrong, though. Constantino doesn't only rap about how great Donald Trump is. He also raps about how terrible Trump's nemesis is. You dummies let a terrorist run for office in New York City. This poser mandami, he ain't even from here. He's still a citizen in Uganda. Okay. This guy's got it.

And by it, I mean a learning disability. Also, I don't know if you heard that, but does he think Uganda did 9-11? Uganda barely got 7-Eleven. But you know what? I want to be fair. People love to isolate a piece of a song to trash an artist. Let's give him another chance and keep listening.

Hey, Andrew Cuomo, f*** you too. And during COVID, that's why you lost the primary. Did he just get so bad? He forgot he was supposed to be rapping? That's not even a song anymore. It's just a guy on the corner going, another thing. With that level of talent, it's no wonder

he's getting endorsements from the cream of the crop. I am very impressed with Anthony Costantino. Anthony is exactly the kind of person we need in politics. It's like this is what I talk about, that people like this have to get involved in politics.

Why are you? That's not where the camera is or Giuliani. He's trying to endorse you, but you're making him look like he's a dad try to convince a new school to take you. Like, no, no, no, you don't understand. He's a good boy, all right? He doesn't do well in class, but he makes the kids laugh. He didn't mean to hurt that girl. He had just never seen curly hair before.

And you might be wondering, how could Donald Trump endorse a dude that doesn't look like he's allowed in pet stores? But this guy isn't anywhere near as bad as some of Trump's other endorsements. Just look at Texas Senate nominee Ken Paxton. Ken Paxton has been repeatedly accused of bribery, fraud, self-dealing. In 2020, a group of AIDS reported him to the FBI, accusing him of bribery and abuse of office to help a friend and political donor. Impeached by the Republican-controlled House on multiple charges of abuse of office. Sued by the State Bar of Texas for his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Retaliating against whistleblowers.

Two counts of securities fraud. Claim three homes as his primary residence. He slept around with a married mother of seven. accused of adultery by his wife, who filed for divorce last year on, quote, biblical grounds. Biblical grounds? I've never heard that before. Imagine showing up to your divorce with a Bible going, he committed all the sins. You're just standing there like, whatever thou shalt not, he did. This guy is garbage. So what is it about him that Trump likes? Tell you what, I love President Trump. I ever.

Every time I'm around him, I'm, it's infectious. That's a weird way to describe your relationship. Did you cheat on your wife with Trump? But I guess that's what matters to Trump. He doesn't care about competence. He just wants loyalty. That's why he endorsed Ken Paxton over John Cornyn, and it's why he endorsed Ed Gowryne over Thomas Massey.

Even though Massey was more MAGA than Trump. But Thomas Massey told Trump, he's not going to blow him to get elected. while Ken Paxton told Trump, watch me suck this peanut butter through a straw and see what I can do for you. And it's chunky. And that's a difference between these two parties.

They both have kingmakers, but kingmakers are looking for two different things on each party. One looks for this in his candidates. A fight to reject a politics of big money and small ideas. Making health care more affordable and making housing more affordable and vote for a city you can afford. And the other looks for this. When people like me, I like them.

It's very simple. It's a very simple formula. That's not really a formula. I mean, I guess it's a formula this guy could understand. Whatever you think about Trump or Mom Donnie, it's very clear that they are controlling the vibe of their party, and voters are eager to see come November

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