The Daily Show: Ears Edition - This Week's News | Jon Stewart on the WHCD Shooting & Josh Johnson on Comey's Seashell Indictment

Episode Date: May 2, 2026

Catch up on all the latest Daily Show coverage with This Week's News. Jon Stewart dives into Trump spinning the attempted shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner into a play for his $400 m...illion East Wing ballroom. Josh Johnson comments on Republicans' push for taxpayers to foot the ballroom bill, King Charles's dazzling address to Congress, and James Comey's indictment over a seashell-based "threat." Plus, Josh covers Trump handling Iran peace talks "telephonically" and examines the fallout over a Supreme Court ruling that strikes a major blow to the Voting Rights Act. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 You're listening to Comedy Central. The White House Correspondents' dinner. There's supposed to be an evening of fun and merriment until, like most things in America, it was interrupted by gunfire. This is why we can't have nice things. And to be perfectly frank, it's not even a nice thing. Nobody wanted this fucking dinner
Starting point is 00:00:34 In the first, nobody needed. We're so f***ed in this country right now. We can't even pull off a dinner that shouldn't have existed in the first place. Let's celebrate the First Amendment with an administration that's doing everything it can do to destroy it. Sounds great. Should we hold the dinner in a secure location? Well, we could. Or, you know what?
Starting point is 00:01:06 Why not just the Hilton? Hold it in a secure location. Let's go to the Hilton. You know the Hilton's slogan? More hard to defend entry points than rooms. And now, fortunately, and amazingly, no fatalities. Nobody was really hurt. But make no mistake in crisis situations like this,
Starting point is 00:01:37 people tend to show you who they really are. And who the elite of Washington, D.C. are is. Like this influencer, who's counterfeiting. caption says, shoot her at the White House correspondent dinner. But whose duck face says, Coachella, Gucci, are these hard-nosed Washington insiders who made sure in a life or dis-situation to grab the things most dear to them,
Starting point is 00:02:26 the bottle service. If only, if only I had more time, I could have saved the rosé. Check this video at the left side of your screen. This man, creative artist, agent, super, Michael Glantz has gone viral for eating food casually as people are crouched down after this shooting at the White House correspondent's dinner. Excuse me.
Starting point is 00:03:10 Excuse me, wait it. When you're done incapacitating the assassin, I would love some more ranch dressing. It'd be a doll if you could, a refill. Some lady took my wine. If you could. There have been times when I have, been very worried about artificial intelligence
Starting point is 00:03:45 and whether or not it's going to replace us. And then there are other times where I think, hey, AI, can you start Monday? I mean, but I got to tell you, nobody revealed their true colors more than the Trump administration. From J.D. Vance's Dancing with the Stars
Starting point is 00:04:06 Quick Step exit to Pete Heggseth, dropping a smoldering blue steel. Hello. F.K. Jr. being whist by a Secret Service hive who apparently couldn't spare one worker bee for, I don't know, his wife. Just, did you see it? Do you see right there?
Starting point is 00:04:31 There's a group of men carrying another man out of the room. And then there's a woman. It appears to be, I'm not a, obviously, desperately reaching out for someone. F.K. Jr.'s wife. If there's one guy in that entire room who sees him. It seems like they would be impervious to physical damage. It's f-in RFK, Jr. Look at this guy.
Starting point is 00:05:30 He literally looks like a guy who is trapped between being Bruce Banner and the Hulk. He's in the middle. He can't go either way. It's like the gamma radiation just stabilized in the middle of the transformation. Oh, I'm just uncomfortable. How f*** up is that scene?
Starting point is 00:06:03 How f*** up is that scene? that scene? May I show you the tape again? I want to show you something. Pay attention to the foreground. Something's about to happen. I want to show it to you. Hold on. It's not there. They're whisking RFK out. His wife. Freeze! Freeze! Freeze! Okay. The guy right there shielding the
Starting point is 00:06:18 pregnant woman from danger, that's Stephen Miller and his wife. Stephen Miller carefully protecting his wife. That's an option. You can
Starting point is 00:06:39 protect. your wife instead of, I don't know, beating her to the escape pod. And the guy who outshined you is Stephen Ficking Miller. That's who out Stephen Miller, a guy who probably jerks off to the new faces of death movie. That's... And now for the rest of your life, the rest of your life, your wife is going to ask you a question no one's ever asked before, ever. Why can't you be more like Stephen Miller?
Starting point is 00:07:16 Can't you be mox? But no. There goes RFK. Just leaving it. Looks like we got a new addition to the Kennedy family, abandoning women to their fate, Wikipedia page. The monkey nonsense. Now, obviously not everybody left their lady behind.
Starting point is 00:08:11 Some went to look for their lady and still got bad news. The New York Times writes, the FBI director, Cash Patel, came tearing across the hallway with two men in tow. His girlfriend was hiding in a room with another man who was holding her. who was holding her hand. Did you have to add that? Was that a necessary detail to add to the story?
Starting point is 00:08:41 Cash Patel's girlfriend, I was in a room a man gently caressing her arm, the man's muscular chest teething with anticipation as he bellowed, I'll protect you, Cash Patel's girlfriend. You know the person I felt the most hard for, honestly, the whole night, probably the featured performer of the evening.
Starting point is 00:09:06 mentalist owes Perlman. He was a mentalist. He was going to perform. It's probably the biggest opportunity for visibility that the mentalist community has ever had. And then in the middle of it,
Starting point is 00:09:19 pow, pow, pow, the whole thing goes. Caroline Levitt, the press secretary said, challenge me. He said, I'm having a baby next week and she goes, can you guess what I'm naming my daughter? And I was guessing letter by letter how many letters were in the name.
Starting point is 00:09:34 Is there anything more compelling than a mentalist or magician just describing to you verbally a trick that he would have done. And that if you had been there, would have been cool. I'm sorry, I interrupted. And then right at the moment where you see it happen, I wrote down the name, and I said, how did I do? And I turned it around, and that's when you see the first lady go,
Starting point is 00:10:01 yeah, that's right. That's when the shooting happened. That gasp wasn't, he nailed it. It was, that was gunfire. And by the way, the shooting happened just as the mentalist was revealing the name of Carolyn Levitt's unborn child, which as amazing as that might have been, one would have thought that a more timely revelation would have been to write something on the card like, everybody run. Hold on. I'm going to, okay, I'm going to show you something. It's going to blow your mind. But perhaps nobody's character was revealed as much as our brave president, Donald Jhasafeffer Trump,
Starting point is 00:10:57 who sat down with Nora O'Donnell the next day to explain that fear was definitely not the emotion he was feeling. I wasn't worried. I could see what was going on at the door. I also saw a lot of very strong, physically strong, really attractive law enforcement people come through those doors. Does that matter? Is that part of how attractive? Look, I don't want my life saved by a six. I don't want some pig face, look. We got to go, Mr. President.
Starting point is 00:11:46 Not with you, friend. Not happening. But how did it feel? You surrounded by really attractive law enforcement. And frankly, it made me feel very safe. Yeah, I'm not sure safe was the emotion. Yeah, I saw them come in and I felt myself get safe as a rock. They were so attractive.
Starting point is 00:12:16 Safe as a rock. That's why I didn't stand up to run. Took a moment to think about baseball. But Trump wasn't only impressed with the officer's good looks or their asses being so taught that any shooter's bullets would have just bounced right off. He was also impressed with their skill. They drew those guns so fast.
Starting point is 00:12:44 They looked like Matt Dillon. I know what you're thinking. Is Donald Trump so old, he's confusing the guy from something about Mary with Matt Damon from, the BORN movies. But it's not true. Trump is actually so old, he's not confused
Starting point is 00:13:18 at all. He's referencing Marshall Matt Dillon from the Gunsmoke TV show. A show that I'm too young to have watched. Look at this. Are you saying this? I'm too young to know that show.
Starting point is 00:13:41 Now, by the way, you may have noticed Trump's demeanor very conciliatory and pleasant towards the reporter. Perhaps this is the new Trump. I don't know if I could ever be as rough as I was going to be tonight. I was gonna really rip it last night. I was talking about everybody. And then I said, well, my speech is gonna be much different.
Starting point is 00:13:59 It'll be a speech of love. His perspective has completely changed. Until, see if you can spot the moment in the Nora O'Donnell interview where Trump decides, nah, f*** that. The so-called manifesto is a stunning thing to read, Mr. President. He appears to refer a motive in it.
Starting point is 00:14:25 He writes this quote, administration officials, they are targets. And he also wrote this. I'm no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes. Did you catch it? He does one of those gym from the office camera takes. Remember that nice thing?
Starting point is 00:15:05 Yeah, no. Now, to be fair to Trump, why would you read out loud the would-be assassins' political take? I think once you go vigilante, you forfeit the platform. I'm sorry. But she got the sound bite she was looking for it. Well, I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would because you're,
Starting point is 00:15:24 you're horrible people, horrible people. Yeah, he did write that. I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody. Oh, you think, do you think he was referring to you? I was just reading you the Asazam Manifesto. I had no idea you would think he was referring to you. But you know what?
Starting point is 00:16:05 Maybe this is a moment where Trump will rise up. These events clearly point out that we have a problem in this country at the nexus of mental health and the availability of powerful weapons. And maybe, just maybe, this sobering night will spur a movement for some solutions. We looked at all of the conditions that took place tonight and I didn't want to say this. I know what he's going to say. We need to put a shit ton of money towards mental health and getting illegal weapons off the streets. That's what he's going to say. Or I'm no mentalist.
Starting point is 00:16:35 Did you have... Did you have something else in mind? It's actually a larger room and it's much more secure. It's drone-proof. It's bulletproof glass. We need the ballroom. Yeah, that's a great solution to gun violence. For you.
Starting point is 00:16:56 What about the unballroomed rest of us? Balls, churches, schools, synagogue, wherever. Not every town can have a ballroom. Didn't you even see footloose? A ballroom? That's the solution. That is the dumbest fucking idea I have ever heard.
Starting point is 00:17:19 No one is going to go along with that. The ballroom will be a solution for this. I think we've got to build that ballroom as soon as possible. The ballroom makes total sense. A ballroom is imperative for a lot of reasons. The president needs the ballroom. Spill the ballroom and just all dance like no one's shooting. That was my jazz hands, by the way.
Starting point is 00:17:51 That's as far as my hands go jazz. But back to the dinner itself. The incident happened in a room full of journalists, and there was one fact the media could report on with certainty. They're heroes. You really saw the best of the entire DC Press Corps on display journalists who immediately sprung into action to cover this historic. A historic moment.
Starting point is 00:18:12 Credit to the journalists, by the way, who continue to do their jobs in that room. Thank goodness for all of us trying to do our jobs. The journalistic heroes of the evening. We should have an awards dinner just for us. You know it's a great place to do it? The hell to tell you. As always, one hero rose above them all. Can we just give Wolf Blitzer some praise and some credit?
Starting point is 00:18:42 And of course, you Wolf saw it closer up than anybody else and we're so glad you're okay. And you did the extraordinary journalism that you're known for. You are an international treasure. Wolf, you were the first to tell the world what actually had happened. I have to say we are lucky that we have a reporter like you who happened to bear witness. You have some people who are legends for a reason of Wolf Blitzer is one of those people. Did Wolf Blitzer die on Saturday? Yes, undoubtedly, the MVP of the news turbation that was this weekend was CNN's Wolf Blitzer.
Starting point is 00:19:23 All right, Wolf, walk us through the attack. We had just finished the first chorus, which was a delicious salad, the president's but after the first chorus, which was a good salad. We had just finished appetizers. This is dangerously blurring the line between reporter and old man at event. We were, the salad was delicious. I'm sorry, what were you asking? I'm sorry.
Starting point is 00:20:01 Let's, we'll try and stay away from the food stuff. Let's get back to the more salient details. And I walked away to go out. To the men's room. I was going to go to the men's room, which you had to go up one level of stairs. The men's room was outside the ballroom. You had to go up one flight of stairs to get there.
Starting point is 00:20:19 It's a good men's room. It's a spacious men's room. The urinals are fine. It could use a grab bar, if we're being honest. I like the men's room where each sink has its own soap dispenser. You get the one where everybody has to go as they're leaving. it's a bottleneck. It creates a bottle.
Starting point is 00:20:43 Come on, Blitzer! What happened? As I'm leaving the men's room to come back to the ballroom, all of a sudden, to my left, I hear gunshots. Boom, boom. The next thing I knew, a police officer pushed me to the ground.
Starting point is 00:20:59 There we go. That's what I'm talking. Now we're in the shit. That's what I'm talking about. All right, what happened next? One of my shoes came off, and it took me a while to find that shoe later. One of my shoes fell off, and now I have that shoe back. I was walking around for a while without a shoe.
Starting point is 00:21:13 Oh, my God. It was just a sock. But you got it back. Were you doing live shots with just one shoe? I was doing life shots with one shoe. Wow. No! As we all know, there was an attempted assassination at the White House Corresponds dinner this weekend,
Starting point is 00:21:37 which, first of all, terrible week for light-skinned dudes. You got this guy going for the president and chewing carpet. Clay Thompson cheating on Megan the Stallion. No pressure, but Drake, this album's got to be fire. It's all on you. But that was just my takeaway. Republicans had another, somehow dumber, takeaway. A group of Senate Republicans is pushing to fund
Starting point is 00:22:08 the construction of President Trump's 90,000 square foot ballroom using taxpayer money. We're going to introduce legislation that would authorize $400 million to be spent to secure the to build the presidential ballroom. $400 million? That's our money.
Starting point is 00:22:32 Why do we have to pay for this? We didn't try to shoot the president. This guy paid for the ballroom. This is the administration that is obsessed with government waste. I can't believe they dissolved Doge right before Trump demanded a $400 million ballroom.
Starting point is 00:22:51 It's like how the Michael Jackson movie ended right before he starts molesting. You just went ahead and skipped all the important stuff, huh? We live in such a crazy time now that events don't even need to be connected to each other. Someone tried to kill the president, so now we're going to build a ballroom. But I feel like someone completely trustworthy told us we wouldn't have to pay for anything. We're putting up our own money with the government just paying for nothing. We did this no charge to the taxpayer whatsoever.
Starting point is 00:23:24 All private money. Not one penny is being used. from the federal government. And, and, to his word, it isn't one penny. It's 40 billion pennies. Honestly, as soon as I heard about the ballroom, I knew we would end up paying for it. Like, Trump is the type of dude to whine and dine you
Starting point is 00:23:43 and then forget his wallet. Now, he'll be sitting with you like, I hope you had a great time. I just, who, I hate to do this, but we're still going to have sex, right? Don't get me wrong. With so many seniors getting scammed in America, I'm glad one of them is turning the tables.
Starting point is 00:24:09 I just don't want it to be on us, you know? And $400 million is way too much. Why is this ballroom so expensive? Is the roof going to be made of Coachella tickets? What could possibly make this thing cost so much? Like, be specific. Underneath, there will be a lot of military stuff. Military stuff?
Starting point is 00:24:31 What military stuff? Name 10 military stuffs. I'll wait. Lindsay Graham sounds like me in fifth grade trying to convince my mom to get me an Xbox. You know, they make educational games too. Here's what I don't get. The president travels with tons of security
Starting point is 00:25:00 everywhere he goes. So what problem are we trying to solve exactly? The ballroom itself will avoid the dilemma of having to leave the White House grounds. He literally could have left his bedroom, walked out the back of the White House and been at the ballroom. Hey, wait.
Starting point is 00:25:22 The president needs to walk out of his bedroom into the ballroom. This feels like it's Lindsay's dream. I can see Lindsay, like, I must rise from my silk sheets and directly into the cotillion. Oh, it's a mass cotillion where I can be my truest self.
Starting point is 00:25:51 This is not what a president is supposed to be focused on. Unless that president is seven years old. They're right in the list like, I'm going to have a slide that goes right from my bed to the pool. And I want a soup made out of candy, so whenever I get hungry, I can just eat my shirt. But still, as good as the White House is,
Starting point is 00:26:18 Trump is going to have to leave sometimes. It really does put President Trump at risk to go around Washington, D.C. like this. The president should not have to leave the White House to go to the Kennedy Center, to go to the Hilton, and venture out. People should come to him. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Starting point is 00:26:36 The president should have to leave his house. You don't want the leader of the free world to visit anything. Hold on. Is the president depressed? I know people keep trying to shoot him, but still, come to think of it, did he just get McDonald's door dash to the house? That sounds like a man who's given up all life. Wait until he finds out about snuggies.
Starting point is 00:27:11 There have to be arguments for this ballroom that don't just make the president sound like an indoor cat. I never understood the opposition to the ballroom. I mean, all women love ballrooms. All women love ballrooms? That argument is so sexist, it's one step away from being super woke. Like, all women love ballrooms. Why can't the president feel like a pretty girl? I should know how big of a deal this is, because sure, all the Republicans are on board.
Starting point is 00:27:53 But there's no way. There's even one Democrat that's going to support this. So far only one Democrat, Senator John Federman of Pennsylvania, has come out in favor of this project. This dude is a ballroom guy? He's never worn a blazer that wasn't loaned to him by the Mardee. The one time I've seen him wearing a jacket and tie, he was wearing them with a hoodie. He looks like he robbed somebody who was wearing a tie. It's like they told him he couldn't come in without what, and then he saw a guy wear what?
Starting point is 00:28:32 He was like, get over here. What does he want a ballroom for? I bet Republicans say if he voted for it, they'd add a bell tower just for him. Look, I know Republicans had Project 2025, but I was starting to think they never wrote Project 2026. Because they're on day four of arguing that the president needs a ballroom to dance in while we're at war during an affordability crisis. But if we ask the government for housing or health care or daycare, this is what we get. The United States can't take care of daycare. We can't take care of daycare.
Starting point is 00:29:19 We're a big country. We have 50 states. We have all these other people. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare. Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things. We have to take care of one thing. Military protection.
Starting point is 00:29:35 And, and a ballroom. With King Charles, the world's oldest Nepo baby. He's visiting the United States this week because even though our country is falling apart right now, it's also our 250th birthday. So no matter how sad the party is going to be, our friends are still coming over. Then on the ride home, they'll be like, she is a rough 250. So yesterday, King Charles dropped by, and he brought some jokes to cheer us up. This is a city which symbolizes a period in our shared history, or what Charles Dickens might have called, a tale of two Georges.
Starting point is 00:30:27 Wow, he really commands the state. I'm sorry. he really colonizes the stage. What's annoying about this as a comedian is that he is actually killing. I mean, look at him, feeling himself in the laughs. A tale of two Georges. He's even got like a signature move with his hands or everything.
Starting point is 00:30:52 And Charles did not stop there. 250 years ago, or, as we say, in the United Kingdom, just the other day. Dare I say that if it wasn't for us, you'd be speaking French. You know, I've always wondered what white dev jam would be like. I kind of want him to keep going. Like, do you ever notice that white people drive like this?
Starting point is 00:31:25 And black people steal your son. But yeah, Charles is crushing. Hit us with another one. Magna Carter is cited in at least 160 Supreme Court cases in 1789, not least as the foundation of the principle that executive power is subject to checks and balances. He got us too good. No, it's funny because you see,
Starting point is 00:32:08 because we don't have checks and balances anymore because the foundations of our democracy are slowly being eroded away. Like, are you crazy, Chuck? You're crazy. The best part of that joke is that right after Charles warned us about a leader with unchecked power, Trump was like, that's a good idea.
Starting point is 00:32:28 Breaking news, former FBI director James Comey, one of President Trump's biggest political adversaries, has been indicted for a second time. Now, that's timing. Just to get you up to speed, a year ago, James Comey did the most retired old man thing ever. He walked on a beach and took a picture of seashells and even posted on social media like we wanted to see it too.
Starting point is 00:32:52 This since deleted Instagram post from Comey. showing the numbers 86-47, written in seashells on the beach, with a caption, Cool Shell Formation on My Beachwalk. Trump supporters condemning that post, claiming it was a call to 86 or kill the 47th president. This, the seashells? That's the threat? Are you sure he was acting alone?
Starting point is 00:33:18 Because as long as we're indicting, I heard about a woman who sells seashells by the seashore. That's suspicious as hell. Seriously, how do you get from this post James Comey wants to murder the president? James Comey is a very intelligent man. I would assume he knows what the term 86 means. I was a waiter for some time.
Starting point is 00:33:40 When you 86 in order, you kill the order. When you 8645, that is tantamount to saying killing the President of the United States. He should have known that. When you 86 in order, you get rid of the order, right? Right. But you're not actually, I mean, you're not killing the food. Yeah, exactly.
Starting point is 00:34:09 That would be weird, wouldn't it? Like, Joey, Joey, it's ravioli. It's a little mushy. So take it out back and blow its brains out, capish. Just so you're aware, this is probably not going to work in court, because I know it's scary to be indicted, but this is definitely going to get 86 by a judge. And in fact, if I could talk to the Department of Justice for just a second,
Starting point is 00:34:31 I don't even think you believe you. Because if you're saying that those menacing seashells were a threat to the president, then why did it take you nearly a year to come after Comey? I thought the Secret Service on Saturday night was slow. I owed them an apology. Just so we're all clear, 86 means getting rid of something off a menu or kicking someone out of a place. It's been understood to mean those things since the 1930s. It's actually one of the last good slang terms that white people invented.
Starting point is 00:35:03 Since then, it's been nothing but Bazinga and a maze balls. And a few new slurs. Mostly the slurs. So I'm not worried that James Comey is actually going to prison. But what's bumming me out is the fact that our president feels totally unencumbered to use the power of the Justice Department to go after people he doesn't like. This whole thing is so depressing I could use a pick-me-up. As Oscar Wilde said, we have really...
Starting point is 00:35:41 everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. Oh, damn. Get them, Chuck. Get them. I honestly don't even know what that means, but... ...with the latest update on the war in Iran, which is that there is no update. It's still happening, you know? I'm starting to get worried about my river cruise this summer
Starting point is 00:36:10 up the straight of her moves. I booked a balcony room, too. But don't worry, because Donald Trump is doing everything he can to wrap it up. We're having talks with him now, and we're not flying anymore with 18-hour flights every time we want to see a piece of paper. We're doing it telephonically, and it's very nice. Telephonically, damn, that's an impressive word, you know? Makes anyone with a phone sound like a wizard.
Starting point is 00:36:45 I order to large me lovers telephonically. Now, to be clear, that is a word, but he didn't know that. He talks the way I play Scrabble, you know? Just like, oh, wow, I was just throwing letters together. How many points is that? That was from yesterday during an event Trump did with the Artemis astronauts and the chief of NASA. And we all know Trump loves space, so he has the utmost respect for these professionals. Sorry, are you considering relocating NASA's headquarters out of D.C.
Starting point is 00:37:20 Once the leases up, states like Texas, Ohio, and Florida. Well, the best man to tell you that is a big man. Man sitting right over here. You heard that question with those beautiful ears of years? He's got great hearing in it. He's got superhero. Trick of the trade, sir.
Starting point is 00:37:35 He's just standing there like, Good one, sir. Haven't heard that since grade school. And I didn't think I'd hear it again, but I did in my 40s from the president. Trump just can't resist
Starting point is 00:38:00 being a bully. He's sitting there like, hey, they say, in space, no one can hear you scream except for this guy, right? He can definitely hear it. Am I right? Am I right? And by the way, these astronauts do not look happy to be there. They're like, this is the most uncomfortable I've ever felt, and two weeks ago, I was pooping in zero gravity.
Starting point is 00:38:22 But let's move on, because while Trump was e-ershaming astronauts, the Supreme Court was busy at work. This morning, the Supreme Court delivering a major blow to the Landmark Voting Rights Act. The court's conservative majority ruling six to three that Louis, Louisiana's current congressional map with two majority African-American districts is unconstitutional, saying lawmakers allowed race to play a part in government decision-making. Democrats blasting the ruling, arguing that other majority black districts are now vulnerable to being erased. That's right. The Supreme Court saw that Louisiana had two whole black congressmen,
Starting point is 00:38:59 and they were like, whoa, what is this? Showtime at the Apollo? Let's dial this back. But now, thanks to the Supreme Court, black districts are going to get a race all across the South, which is horrible for civil rights. But pretty great for all the new civil rights movies we're going to be making. So this is fantastic from like a Denzel-only perspective. And obviously, the Supreme Court didn't come right out
Starting point is 00:39:25 and say that states can be racist. Justice Palpatine isn't that dumb, all right? He played it much smoother. Just as Samuel Lido writing, race can only be taken into account when there's evidence that a state intentionally drew its districts to afford minority voters less opportunity because of their race. That's crazy, all right? So just to be clear, for Alito, the map is not racist unless the guy drawing it finishes it and goes, man, I'm racist. Now, if you're watching this whole thing unfold and you're thinking to yourself, this seems pretty racist, Republicans have great. news for you.
Starting point is 00:40:06 I think after 160 years of after the Civil War, it's time that we didn't have a race-based reason for doing things. In 2026 in the United States, the reasons to use race for line drawing deliberately that occurred to remedy discrimination in the South 50 years ago no longer exist in America. The court said you have to have modern examples of how voters have been racially discriminated against. And fortunately, America has come a long way since the 1960s. It has, fortunately. fortunately. It's the end of pretending
Starting point is 00:40:36 that this is a racist country. Racism's over. Oh boy, I can finally use my real voice. What's up, dog? I just thought when racism would be over, we'd hear about it from like a civil rights leader or something. Not a guy who looks like a racist version of the dad from modern family. It almost feels like we're going in reverse
Starting point is 00:41:11 because the people from the 60s in black and white TV were like, wow, this country is being pretty racist, we should pass some legislation. And the people crippling that legislation are from now in 4K. Just so we're all aware, newscasters who would do reports like, that Jackie Robinson is the best
Starting point is 00:41:29 colored player in the Negro League, believed in voting rights more than our representatives now. What these people don't get is that to the extent that there's less discrimination now, it's partly because we have the VRA. So this is like my uncle, who threw away his medication
Starting point is 00:41:45 because he said his heart wasn't bothering them anymore. And to be fair, he did stop having heart problems because he's dead. And one of the most brain-breaking things about this ruling is it's literally taking power from black people in the South and it was voted for by a black guy from the South. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is black. He might not know it, but he is black. How could you, of all people, vote for this, Clarence?
Starting point is 00:42:21 You were like an uncle to all of us. Uncle Clarence Thomas. Uncle Thomas for short. Uncle Tom for short. But look, we don't have to pretend here. At the end of the day, we all know that this decision was not about moving on from race. This is the Supreme Court majority handing a win to Republicans.
Starting point is 00:42:52 I know that. You know that. And the Republicans definitely know that because their leader said it out loud. Mr. President, I want to go back to the Supreme Court ruling on that Voting Rights Act. I know you said you haven't seen it. When did it come out just now?
Starting point is 00:43:03 No, it came out this morning, but basically very much narrows the voting rights act. Was he considered a win for a loser? A win for Republicans. I love it. You could always count on Trump to get right to the point. Like, it's a win for Republicans. Did you guys hear that? I know this guy did.
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