The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Trump Announces His 2024 Run For President | Jonathan Majors

Episode Date: November 17, 2022

Trump announces his 2024 run for President with a boring speech, Beyoncé ties husband Jay-Z for most Grammy nominations ever and actor Jonathan Majors talks about his role in the movie "Devotion."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Take a seat. Let's get into it. Take a seat. We're going to find out why Beyonce and Jay-Z might have beef. We'll see where Black Friday came from. And if you love the Trump administration, then, oh boy, have I got some great news for you. So let's do this people let's jump straight into today's headlines. All right before we get into the big stories let's catch up on a few other things going on in the world. Starting with the Grammy Awards. Yesterday the full list of nominations was announced and Beyonce is leading the pack with nine nominations,

which amazingly, ties her with her husband Jay-Z for the all-time record of 83 nominations. Yeah, yeah, makes your hashtag marriage goals look like shit. Oh, and congratulations to Amanda Gorman, the poet who got her first nomination for best spoken word album. That's pretty amazing. Congratulations to her. And to Joe Biden who got a nomination for best,

we think those are the words album? Well done, sir. Well done. In tech news, Elon Musk is continuing his makeover of Twitter by telling employees that from now on, the work environment will be quote, extremely hard core. Yeah, and they should prepare themselves. But if anyone insults him, he'll call his mommy and fire them. That's not hardcore, it's just mean. And by the way, I don't know if he can afford to fire any more employees. He's already fired half of the company. Pretty soon Elon Musk is going to be

the only one working at Twitter. We're going to be sitting there like, why haven't my tweets updated for like 20 minutes? And you know, and be like, sorry, I was taking a shit. It was so hard. All right, where was I. that. Oh, in international news, NATO NATO. NATO. NATO. NATO. NATO. NATO. NATO. NATO. NATO. NATO. NATO. NATO. NATO. NATO. NATO. NATO. NATO. NATO. NATO. NATO. NATO. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. to to to be to be to be th. to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be the the the their their their their their their the only. the only. the only. the only. the only. the only. the only. toe. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to the stray missiles that hit Poland yesterday were not fired by Russia after all, as was reported. Yeah, they were actually Ukrainian missiles being launched against Russian attackers. So the good news is that NATO doesn't have to go to war against Russia. The bad news is it now has to go against Ukraine. Yeah. Rules are rules. The rules are rules. I'm just glad it wasn't what we thought it was. And Poland is like, we still got bombed. All right, let's move

on to the big story of the day. As you know, America's midterm election was just one week ago. The votes in many districts are still being counted. The runoff for Georgia Senate's seat is still three weeks away. And Wolf Blitzer is still waking up in the middle of the night shouting, key race alert! Key race alert! My point is the 2022 midterms are not over. Which means now is the perfect time to start covering the 2024 election. There have been so many times over the last two years when people have said that Donald jobless Trump was finished for sure. They said he was finished when he was impeached for throwing a house party without his parents permission.

When he got his hand stuck under the fridge trying to get a Cadbury cream egg that rolled underneath there. Just let go of the egg, Donald. One thing people don't realize is Donald Trump doesn't care what anyone else thinks about his political future. And you saw that last night because he swapped out the buffet table at Marlago for American flags and made a big announcement. On stage at his South Florida estate, Donald Trump announcing the White House run he's hinted at, ever since his 2020 election defeat.

In order to make America great and glorious again, I am tonight announcing my candidacy for president of the United States. The former president impeached twice, including for his role in the January 6th insurrection, placing himself at the head of a movement to take power back for his supporters. This is our country, our government. Now at the center of multiple investigations, Mr. Trump said a weaponized justice system is the greatest threat to the U.S. We must conduct a top-to-bottom overhaul to clean out the festering rod and corruption of Washington, D.C. And I'm a victim, I will tell you. I'm a to to to to to thi. I'm a victim. I'm a victim. I'm a victim. them. them. the the the the the the ering rot and corruption of Washington DC. And I'm a victim, I will tell you.

I'm a victim. That's right, folks. I'm the biggest victim of all. Every time I do something illegal, they come after me. I've done 30 illegal things. They've come after me. They've come after me at least 20 times. It's so unfair. So unfair. You know, as ridiculous as this is, I'm this is this is thiiiiiiiiiiiiii Come after me at least 20 times. It's so unfair, so unfair.

You know, as ridiculous as this is, I'm actually glad he's being honest about why he's running. He's running for the same reason every shirtless gown cops runs. The popo is chasing him. He said it. But this, this is what Trump does. He's always the victim. The poor billionaire, who only owns 15 golf courses and got to run the world's most powerful country for four years.

Oh, woe is me. If Trump was a prince and a fairy tale, the movie would suck and the princess would never get saved. You know, yeah, the dwarves would be like, please, we need you to save Snow White, and he's like, who's going to save me? Do you know how many scares are the is the is the the the thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii is to to to to the to the the to the thi thi th is th is to to th is to the to to to to to be to be to be to be to save me? Do you know how many scares are in my castle? I'm so tired. Do you know how hard it is to pick from the lavish banquet my service prepare for me?" They'd be like, but she's poisoned to eternal sleep. I wish I could sleep. You know how hard it is to get comfortable in a bed of coins? So hard. But that's right. Trump is getting the old team back together for one more run at the White House.

And of course, I say that metaphorically since most of the old team is in jail. The point is, though, he's officially in the race. And you have to admit, this is an interesting way to kick off your presidential campaign. Vote for me, I'm a whiny piss baby. Because that's what most of his speech was about thapapapapapthe only victim. No, according to the Donald, running America into the ground was also very hard on his family. And it hasn't been a joyride for our great first lady either. I go home and she says, you look angry and upset.

I say, just leave me alone. I got. Hasn't been the easiest thing. In fact, my one boy, stand up, Eric. I think he got more subpoenas than any man in the history of our country. So unfair. Al Capone, you all heard of the great gangster? Al Capone got far less.

Billy the kid got almost done. Jesse James, no. Eric Trump got more subpoenas. He's a PhD more subpoenas. He's a PhD in subpoenas. They come from Congress, they... Yeah, that's right. No one suffered more from the Trump presidency than the Trump family.

Yeah, while the rest of you were living it up in your border cages and enjoying an endless buffet of COVID, Eric Trump was being asked to answer some questions. What a hard life. And look, to be fair, I will admit that Eric has gotten more subpoenas than gunslingers like Billy the Kid and Jesse James. And those guys in the Wild West, well, they got a lot of subpoenas.

We've all seen the movies. I have papers for Mr. Ugly. Is Mr. Ugly here? You know what, you guys look busy, I'll come back later, yeah? And by the way... And by the way... By the way, that story that he told, that Trump told about him and Melania, was anyone else surprised as I was to hear it, was Trump telling Melania to leave him alone? Yeah, Melania was probably like, oh no, anything but that. I'll give you some space. How about forever?

Now you might be thinking, this speech probably sucked, right? Because you're not a fan of Donald Trump. But it turns out even the people who were there to see him didn't exactly want to stay. Trump displayed a fraction of his 2016 energy. The speech ran twice as long as scheduled and for long stretches left his crowd restless and silent. This was a teleprompter Trump, low energy, very, very unusual. He started to get bored and started to ad lib and it just turned into a rambling mess in my opinion. Candidly, he was quite subdued, low energy.

I thought this speech tonight was lame. I thought the crowd was lame. Reporters inside the ballroom at Marlago noticed a handful of Trump supporters attempting to leave before Trump was done speaking. But security won't let them. Oh damn. Say what you will about Trump, but the man takes these border security seriously. Nobody's getting out.

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He's locked us up. And you know, Trump aside, I will say, I will say, it is a little strange, I'll be honest, I think it is a little strange that so many people in the news media were fixated on how boring the speech was. Like, who cares? For years, they were like, this is not normal. And now they're like, this is too normal. Say something about the Mexicans.

We need ratings, Donald. Now, despite Trump's triumphant return, the word on the street is that he might not have the support that he needs to win. Apparently, Republican elites are clamoring for Rhonda Sanctus. All right, major Republican donors have announced that they won't back Trump this time. Even Ivanka released a statement saying she doesn't want to be a part of the campaign. Instead, she wants to focus on her family, which of course I understand. I mean, she's got that adorable little boy at home. And I think she has kids, you know. So yeah, a lot of major players in the Republican world are not thiii. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. theean thean thean thean thean thean thean thean thean thean thean thean thi. thi. thithe Republican world are not thrilled that Donald Trump is running again. Although apparently many Democrats are happy,

including people like Bernie Sanders who said Trump running may be a horror show for the country, but I've got to say that as a politician who wants to see that no Republican is elected to the White House in 2024, from that perspective, his candidacy is probably a good thing. And, yeah, you know, Bernie, Bernie's probably right. Democrats should be praying for Donald Trump to win the nomination so that they can easily crush him in the general election. Yeah, that kind of thinking has never horribly backfired. Just ask President Hillary Clinton, what could go wrong? But for real people, are we really going to do this again?

We're going to do everything to say, the Democrats are going to hope to face Trump. The media is going to write him off because Republicans don't support him. Forgetting that Republicans didn't support him. Then he got on stage, Roasted Chris Christieb Bush so hard, his whole family felt it. And then all of a sudden the whole Republican Party was like, you are our king now, and Ted Cruz's wife is ugly. And before you say, oh, but this time is different, we beat him already.

Yeah, remember that he only lost to Joe Biden by 44,000 votes. And that was during a pandemic where Trump told everyone to bleach their lungs. He's probably not going to do to to do to do to lungs. He's probably not going to do that again. Probably. And you're probably like, yeah, but but this year all of Trump's mega election deniers lost. Yeah, but they lost by like 1%. One percent. Those are not f-fix around and find out margins people. Those are the kind of margins way if anything is a little bit different next time, Trump could win those states. Gas prices could be higher. The economy. th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, but thi, but thi, but thi, but thi, but thi, but thi, but thi, but thi's thi's thi, but thi, but thi, but thi, but th. And, but thi, but thi, but, but, but thi, but thi, but th, but th, but th, but th, but th, but th, but th, but th, but th, but th, but th, but thi, but thi, but thi, but thi, but thi, but thi, but thi's thi's thi's thi's thi's thi's thi's thi's thi's probably thi's probably thi's thi's probably thi's thi's probably thi's thi's thi's thi. thi, but th, Trump could win those states. Gas prices could be higher, the economy could be worse. Joe Biden could keep getting older. Anything is possible.

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Twitter, I just wouldn't open my emails. Stop opening your email if you work at Twitter. It's like divorce. You got to hand me to pay for us. You can't find me if I don't open my email. Email, Elon been slinging them emails for two weeks, man. It ain't been no good news. And it ain't like you work at Twitter, open your email. It's good news everybody. Strip us in the break room. Like, all right.

Thank you, Elon. The email was wild. email that you sent out? I read the emails. They were insane. He had this whole thing. He was like, from now on, we're going to be extremely hardcore working long hours. It was like high intensity. Oh, and then he said like an only exceptional performance will constitute a parsing grade if you don't want to be part of the new Twitter, then you can get out. It's something crazy a CEO said that that was Elon's mistake. You want to talk to people like that, fine, but you can't call yourself a CEO. If you're going to talk to people crazy, you got to call yourself a head coach.

Nobody, nobody is more verbally abusive to their employees than a head coach. You ever played a sport. You have that? Coach always talking crazy. I want blood. I want pain. Water makes you weak. You can't have no water. If Elon want to keep from getting in trouble,

run Twitter like a head coach. First off, stop emailing everybody. Call a huddle. the e-in'lion thin. in because everything in that Elon email, everything Elon said in that email, if he said it in a locker room, it don't sound as bad. Like Elon could be a Twitter coach, he just happens a little coach, bring it in, bring it in, bring it in, Twitter team. Bring it in. Okay, Twitter team.

We're in a competitive world, we need to be hardcore, long hours, high intensity, only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade. Engineers, I need you to drive us, we are our software and service company. If you are sure that you want to be a part of Team Twitter, then please click yes on the link below in the email. And you make sure that they remember forever the night they played the Titans.

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All right, don't go away. Because after the break, Desi, Desi-Desi. Des, Des, Des, Des, Des, Des, Des, Des, Des, Des, Des, Des, Des, Des, Des, Des, Des, Des, Des, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I'm the the the the, I, I, I'm the the the the the, the, the, the, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the, the the break, Desi Leitig is going to expose the truth about Black Friday. We'll be right back. You want to track? You want to track? I'm in the blue text. I'm in the blue text. Put the, who's the good test here. Put the truth, everyone. Put it on the Daily Show. Next Thursday night, America celebrates the holiday that defines it as a nation.

Black Friday. But where did Black Friday come from? Well, to find out, we turn to Desi Lyddeck in another episode of Why do we celebrate this? Hey, get back. This one's mine. You all ready to die for this flat screen because I am. Hello my shopaholics, maximistas, mall rats, coupon clippers, bargain bitches, capitalism warriors and sales slugs. It's the holidays and that means one thing.

Family. No, I'm kidding. That means shopping. Family. What the fuck? Like many of you, I too will be going out on Black Friday. One of America's most treasured excuses to buy shit. And Black Friday seems like something that's been around forever. I mean, I can't remember a time when Black Friday didn't exist. Then again, my memory is a little fuzzy from all the head trauma from previous Black Fridays. The history of Black Friday is actually quite interesting. It started in the 1920s when retail stores wanted to set a clear beginning to the Christmas shopping season. So department

stores like Macy's created grand parades to signal to Americans, it's time to start spending cash. Although back then parade balloons weren't as cute as the ones today. You know, classics like Puff the Methuel Dragon, whimsical Drifter murderer, and Thick Daddy Superman. Maybe they were hoping to scare people to run inside the stores, I don't know. The point is retailers depended on a big Christmas shopping season and were willing to do whatever it took to make it as long as possible. In fact, during the Great Depression to do whatever it took to make it as long as possible. In fact, during the Great Depression, they even lobbied President Franklin Roosevelt

to move Thanksgiving a week earlier to allow for more Christmas shopping. And after his cousin finished giving him a hand job, FDR agreed. Eventually, they moved Thanksgiving back, but the retailers got what they wanted, because over the next few decades, more and more people began the Christmas shopping the day day after Thanksgiving. But the first time the day was called Black Friday was in the 1960s.

It was actually coined by the Philadelphia Police Department because the day brought tons of traffic and chaos. And for shopping to cause chaos in Philadelphia, it has to really be chaos. I once set fire to a mannequin out of Zara in Philadelphia, and they didn't even kick me out at store. They just threw it in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in the burnt the burnt in the burnt the burnt the burnt in the burnt the burnt the burnt the burnt the burnt the burnt the burnt the burnt the burnt their their their their their their their their their their their their their me out at store. They just threw it in the burnt mannequin pile. Sorry. It was in the 1980s that Black Friday finally went nationwide and it was all thanks to America's obsession with the adorable little vegetable human monster hybrids known as the cabbage patch kids.

I got this one for $3,000 and I had to get punched by a lot of grandmas to get it, but it was worth it. The toys were in such high demand that it caused literal riots across America. People fought their neighbor's tooth and nail to pay for some lettuce shaped plastic. But all the violence was worth it for that precious Christmas morning when their kids would open the box, see the cabbage patch kid, and then play with the box. The cabbage patch kids set the standard for all sorts of Black Friday crazes throughout the 90s, from Furbies to Beanie Babies, to Tickle Me Elmo's, to countless other toys bought by newly divorced dads trying to buy their way into their kids' hearts.

By 2002, nearly three quarters of all shoppers the shoppers shop shop shop shop It was paradise for people looking for deals and robbers looking for unguarded homes. Black Friday was so successful that stores started pushing the start time back from Friday morning to Friday at midnight and then all the way back to Thanksgiving night itself. They called the new holiday, Gray Thursday as a tribute to the moral gray area of abandoning your family on Thanksgiving to choke out a stranger for an instipot. Oh, it's ready. And throughout this time, Black Friday doorbuster sales became more dangerous as consumers

turned every big box store into a big octagon arena. It got so bad that in 2011 you were statistically more likely to be injured in a Black Friday sale than from a shark attack. Unless that shark is also at the Black Friday sale and then it depends on whoever wants that blender more. Got it! Yes! But sadly the good times and horrific injuries couldn't last forever. With the dawn of online shopping, Black Friday became less relevant than the newer, shinier, two-day primary holiday that took its place....... th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thatate thate thate thate thate thate thate that thi thi the thi the the thi the thi thi thr-a thr-on the thi th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the the the the the the the th. th. th. the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thr. thr. thr. thr. thr. the the the the the thea toooooooooooo tea. tea. thea. thea. thea. thr. the. the. shopping, Black Friday became less relevant than the newer, shinier, two-day primary holiday that took its place. Along came Cyber Monday, an easier way to score deals while avoiding the mobs at in-person stores. It's just another

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some stranger at a store. It's about gathering your family and fighting with them. So happy shopping season. Now if you'll excuse me, I gotta start practicing for the big day. Hey, step away from that Dyson! You think I won't pull out this pin? Well guess what? Tick-top, mother-folled. Thank you so much for that, DesJayright. Stay tuned because when we come back, Jonathan Majors will be joining me right here on the show. You don't want to miss it. Welcome back to the Daily Show. My guest tonight is an Emmy nominated actor who plays the first black aviator in Navy history in the Daily Show. My guest tonight is an Emmy-nominated actor who plays

the first Black Aviator in Navy History in the new film Devotion, which will be exclusively in theaters November 23rd. Please welcome Jonathan Mages. Thank you. Are you from the flowers? Welcome to the show. Thank you. Thank you, brother. This is a throw the flowers? No, no, no, those are for you.

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It is an absolute pleasure to have you here. I mean, I've had questions to the new. It is an absolute pleasure to have you here. I mean, obviously for the new movie, but for everything that you've been doing. You know, you hopped onto many people's screens for the first time, Lost Black Man in San Francisco, amazing film that I think everybody should watch, you know, the way you carry a character, then obviously, country which you got your Emmy nomination for, congratulations from that. You know, and now in this film, you know, it's amazing to be playing a

character that more people should know about because of what they represented, but to be playing the first black pilot in the Navy. You know, many people talk about how black service members were fighting a war on two fronts. That's right. They weren't just fighting against what was happening outside America, they were fighting against what was happening inside America. And you portrayed them in the film. Talk me through the wise.

I know you're very intentional about why, why this movie and why this character? Wow. Well, well, well, I play a super villain and I thought this was an opportunity to play a hero. I love that. When I, so I'm from Texas, Dallas, Texas, came up a certain way. Jesse Brown is from Mississippi. Right. And was the son of a sharecropping. And somehow he made his way from those sharecropping fields to the sky. became not just a black naval aviator, but the best black naval aviator. And I thought, okay, we've got stories about King and Rosa Parks and Harriet Tubman and we don't have a story about this guy. And this is his handshake. This is the first time they're going to say, okay, this is Jesse, you know. And I wanted to be responsible for that. I was. I the the the the th, the the th, the the th, the th, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the their their their their their their their their their their their their their their. And their. And became their. And be their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their tape. And. And tape. And tape. And. And their their their their their their their their their their their This is the first time they're gonna say, okay, this is Jesse, this is Jesse, you know?

And I wanted to be responsible for that. And I also wanted to fly some planes. What did you garner from that experience that helped you in telling the story? Well, it was access. I mean, that was touch the sky in your life in that way you know you can pretty much do do anything you truly can you truly can what I love what I love noticing is how many times the parallels will be drawn between characters that that

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I feel like athletes are like five. So what do you, what don't you eat? What do I not eat? Can you eat? I can't. I can't. Explain this. What is it?

How is it? How is it? then? Why is Disney not not releasing? I want to know what this is. How many hours? What do you eat? Like, what is your life? I mean, I mean, what is my life? Oh, so I woke up this morning. No, I want to know about the muscles. You know what I'm talking about, man? I trained, I trained, I trained probably two times. I trained, I trained, I trained, I trained, I trained, I trained, I trained, I trained, I trained, I trained, I trained, I trained, I two two two, I trained, I two two two two two two train, I trained, I trained, I train, I train, I train, I train, I try, I try, I try, I try, I try, I'm t, tip, tip, tip, tip, thea, the. the. the. I'm, the. I'm, t, t, t, t, t, t, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the their, their, th is th is my the. th. th. the, their, the their, the their, their, the their, what is my life, th. their, their, their, their, th. th. train two times a day. I, you stay away from carbs, you know what I mean? You see, I knew it. Unless you need the carb, right? I knew it. I have oatmeal in the morning.

That's a carb. You know, fun cobs. You know what I mean? You can put some, you know what, what, like, pizza? You say like oats, like, okay. That's until the cause of that. I see the game you play. Okay, okay. I was hoping it was like a hack. I thought there was a hack.

Well, I'll take some of a trick that you tell me. About this. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I ate Shake shack the day before. That's a secret. You see. Now this is something I can do. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm going to incorporate this into my life. Yeah, yeah, yeah, if, once you've gotten yourself to a certain point. Oh no, I just want to eat Shakespeare the day before, before I let you go.

I remember the first time I saw you on the screen, everyone knows that you're going to be the biggest star anyone has ever seen. And everyone's going to be giving you the flowers. Thank you for being here. Thank you for joining me on the show. Thank you for creating what you create. Congratulations on everything. Thank you. Jonathan Majors, everybody.

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