The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Trump Autopens the Iran Deal, Lands a Res at G7 Summit & Spawns an Algae Conspiracy | Britt Lower

Episode Date: June 17, 2026

The president showed up at the G7 summit to get presents and show off his finally final peace agreement with Iran, while planning to ditch the signing ceremony in favor of a dinner at his ultimate Pinterest inspo, Versailles. Plus, Trump’s $14 million project to fix the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is only reflecting back an algae-green mess, and MAGA supporters suspect sabotage. Former federal workers who lost their jobs to Elon Musk’s DOGE-ing spree are taking another stab at working for the government that humiliated them by running for Congress. Desi Lydic sits down with these scorned civil servants to figure out why they’d voluntarily return to government work after being subjected to Elon's job-killing chainsaw. Britt Lower sits down with Jordan Klepper to discuss her new Netflix series, “I Will Find You,” which she stars in alongside Sam Worthington. She attributes her on-screen chemistry with Worthington to their shared birthday and breaks down how she prepared for the role as a boots-on-the-ground reporter, all the way down to filling her character’s bag with journalistic props like a 35mm camera, a handheld recorder, and a notebook. Lower also shares how improv taught her about presence, listening, and embracing failure in real time. -- To get simple, online access to personalized, affordable care for ED, Hair Loss, Weight Loss, and more, visit https://Hims.com/dailyshow -- 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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and the reflecting pool has a raging case of algae. So, if you hooked up with it, you should really get tested. But first, Donald Trump's in France, so let's get into it with our continuing coverage of Trump meets world. International humiliation, one after another. Yesterday, Donald Trump touched down in France for the G7 summit,

a forum where world leaders meet to discuss a book they all read. This month's pick was famed. A really nice choice. Now, the summit is being held in the city of Evian, which costs twice as much as a normal city for no reason at all. I mean, would it kill you to hold this conference in the village of Kirkland's signature?

I mean, come on. But regardless, Trump's been having a blast. President Emmanuel Macron welcomed him in what seemed like a very special edition of the Golden Bachelor. Oh, great magnifici. Cannot wait to get into the hot tub with this little number. Now, Trump's goal at the summit is to work with our allies

and strengthen America standing in the world. I'm f***in with you. No! He's there for the presents. The German Chancellor offering President Trump a customized German football jersey. Oh, you can tell he really loves it, you know. Wow, a size medium shirt. Yeah, thanks. You know, Cutter got me a plane, right?

Although, if the Germans insist on giving Trump one of their uniforms, this probably is the best case scenario. Just thinking it through him. He's into those heritage additions. That's not to say President Trump showed up to the G7 empty bruise-handed. No, because he had his own gift for Europe,

a peace deal with Iran that he'd just signed two days before. Or did he? The president and the vice president signed this agreement electronically 48 hours ago. Well, well, well, an electronic signature, huh? Looks like the autopen er has become the auto pen e. Got him, got him.

Take that. See that? Apocacy. Seriously. Is a docu-signed peace agreement even legally binding? There's something disqualifying about a treaty that was signed in an open tab next to Pornhub. Now, police drag in there. Now, so far, Trump is keeping the details of the deal hidden, but it doesn't matter because the leaders in the region, like the president of the UAE,

are just happy for peace. Without your support, your commitment to Mr. President, not my country only, but the Middle East will be in a different part of a different situation today. How moving, I assume. It was a little hard to hear him. But I'm sure his demeanor of gratitude and humility is what resonated with President Trump. We love it. Thank you, my friend.

See, when you're that rich, you can speak that long. I was just wondering, can anybody hear that? But when you're so rich, you have such confidence that you don't have to do any strain to the vote. voice. It's great. Wow. Broken man just had his whole country droned, and Trump is like, hey, check out the president of ASMR over here, huh?

What's the matter? Dron got your tongue? No, he's a great guy, great guy, great guy. This is a big deal. The war is finally coming to an end for the 39th and final time. We have now reached the Iran War-finished V-2 final, final, final, final, for real this time, Okay, but I can only imagine Trump must be so excited to go to this historic signing ceremony on Friday.

Sir, are you going to try to attend the signing ceremony on Friday? Well, it depends. He's coming in for it. He was originally going to do it. I'll probably be gone by then. We're having dinner and a day and a half, right? We're going to be staying quite late. Hold, hold, hold, hold, hold.

You're not going to make the signing ceremony on Friday because of your dinner on Wednesday? Just say you don't want to go. Don't insult our intelligence, you know? Oh, I think dinner might go like 50 hours late. Then I have Don Jr.'s improv show. Then it's Ramadan. You know how seriously I take that.

But if you're missing the war for a dinner, you better be going someplace nice. I'm talking cheesecake factory or above. The French president who happens to be a very nice man invited me to dinner at Versailles. And Versailles is not a gold leaf. Versailles is the real deal. Dinner at Versailles. Okay, you know what?

I'm going to give Trump this one. That's been pinned on his Pinterest board since he was 12 years. Versailles is a beautiful palace of gold and mirrors where nothing bad ever happens to rich people, yeah? It's his happy place. It's where the Trump family goes to respawn. And of course, if you're at dinner, you can't sign an agreement.

Who's ever heard of signing a treaty at Versailles? It can't be done. Do your beautiful dinner at the beautiful palace, because pretty soon you have to come back to Washington, D.C., where things have taken a turn. The newly renovated reflecting pool, which was painted American flag blue, turned green with algae over the weekend.

Holy shit. That pool is green. Looks like there was a Grinch Orgy. in it. Looks like the bathtub where Kermit slit his wrists. Looks like the Statue of Liberty's placenta in there, am I right?

No. No. Thank you. Thank you. I guilted you into it. Thank you. Well, look, they put $14 million into building a state-of-the-art system for keeping this pool clean. I bet we're going to see some pretty high-tech solutions kick in any minute.

You can see the folks standing at the end. They're dumping jugs. of some kind of a liquid into the water of the reflecting pool. Sure. Just dump in gallons of hydrogen peroxia. Just love that, guys. First thought, best thought. That's what I always say. You know what? As someone who's tried to clean a humidifier the same way, might I recommend just buying a new reflecting pool at Target? The funny thing, the funny thing about this story,

is that no one would have cared what the pool looked like if Donald Trump hadn't made it, a setterpiece of the MAGA agenda for some reason, but he did, which means that the people who believe in the MAGA agenda, people like right-wing radio host Grant Stinchfield, they're going to have some interesting ideas about how this all happened.

There's algae in here again. I feel like it's sabotage. Oh, God. Just please tell me we're not doing a reflecting pool conspiracy theory. Just please tell me we're not doing a

reflecting pool conspiracy theory. I mean, they had just literally fixed this. You would not have that, that quickly, unless somebody did something. I'm telling you, I think they want Trump to fail so badly that they'll come out here and do anything. I agree with you. As proud as I was of President Trump for finally getting this thing fixed, we're back to green.

And again, is it nefarious? I tend to think so. Okay. I guess it is nefarious if you think about it, and then you don't think about it. And if you don't think about it, Al-G sounds a lot like Al-Qaeda.

Huh? I mean, how deep does this thing go? My sources aren't telling me like about a foot or a foot and a half, but I mean, Grant, Grant, what are we missing here? I still think it may have been sabotaged, Even though the National Park Service comes out and says, no, no, no, it's not sabotage.

They say it was algae residue left over in the pipes. What if the bureaucrats left it over in the pipes on purpose? We know that those inside government don't like President Trump. Yes, of course. Those pesky bureaucrats jumped into the pipes to leave algae in there. I believe we had surveillance video of that happening. Yeah. This is the beauty of the Magaverse.

Donald Trump is never too corrupt or incompetent for the job if you always come up with a new layer of bad guy to blame the problems on. So I know the deep state photosynthesis theory sounds dopey, but so did rigged election at first, and look where that got us. Before you know it, these guys are going to be doing January 6th in the reflecting pool.

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Here since Elon Musk doge the shit out of the federal government, and it's been going great for him ever since. But what about the dogees? Desi Leideck found out. Donald Trump has been a constant critic of government spending. We're bloated. We're sloppy. So he enlisted Elon Musk to remove the bureaucratic con artists wasting our money.

A year ago, I confronted these alleged fraudsters fired by Doge, and you'd think they'd be done with the government for good. But actually, they're not. I'm Alexis Goldstein, and I'm running for Congress in Maryland. My name's Alyssa Elman, and right now I'm running for Congress for the New York 24th Congressional District. My name is Michael Duffin, and I'm running as a Democrat in Virginia's 8th District. I'm Tracy Starr, and I am running for Congress in Maryland's congressional district. Number five. Wow, truly inspirational is what I would be saying if they weren't running back to the government who humiliated them. More than three dozen former federal workers who quit or lost their jobs last year in the wake of cuts from Doge are now running for political office.

Okay, but these weirdos must have an ulterior motive. I know what you're doing. You're getting into a position of power so you can commit more waste fraud and abuse. I'd call it trying to make some change. It's time to. fight back. I'm just so mad that I was finally like, fuck it. I feel like I could do a better job than the people that are currently running things, so why not? We need people who are focused on public service. It's accountability. It's justice. It's reform. I'm sorry. I've been covering politics for the last 10 years. Can you explain to me what accountability is? Is it like a stock market thing? Oh, I see what's happening. These scorned civil servants want revenge. It's not revenge. I want to continue my public service.

Look, there's nothing to be ashamed of. Revenge is a powerful motivator. Just look at the president. It's like his whole thing. I'd like to get my revenge legally. I'm in this to do the real work of public service. So you're telling me that you're actually running because you care about public service? I actually do. And I'm afraid that my opponent only cares about her career.

And that's not enough. It's so off-putting when people are just obsessed with their careers all the time. and obsessed with themselves, quite frankly. Joel, you're tight enough on me, aren't you? Sometimes he goes so wide. And it's like, what am I looking at? You know, let's just move on. We don't have time.

This isn't about me. But tight. Okay, I'm looking for the John Wick, the federal bureaucracy. Someone who isn't running to serve the people, but rather to settle the score. I am getting into a position of power, yes, to go in there and to say, you need to go.

It's my turn. You're coming back for revenge. Yes, I am. Bring it on. Finally, just the villain I've been looking for. I can't wait to hear what cruel plans she has cooked up for her enemies. All right, hit me with your best revenge plot. What are you going to do?

We all across America have been affected by all of this. And so my whole revenge plot centers around the American people. I want to help people. That is a very sweet, wholesome revet. I think we need less Hallmark energy and more kill-bill energy. You know what I mean?

One time Jordan Klepper ate one of my yogurts from the fridge, so I told him his kid wasn't his. It was hilarious. They haven't talked in months. I am petty. Does that help? Let's go with that. Let's double down on the pettiness.

It worked inside all these different systems of power, Wall Street, the government. I've lobbied Congress. So it's sort of like I've case the joint, and now I'm ready for the heist. Stay no more. Heist has always been on my bucket list. I was thinking more like maybe a bill first, or like some laws.

No, totally. Yeah, like a legislative heist. That's what I meant to. These people who were fired for waste, fraud, and abuse were about to voluntarily enter a world of waste, fraud, and abuse. And it was obvious from their half-baked revenge plots that they were going to need my help. You're about to go up against some seriously corrupt politicians. I need to test you to see if you're ready.

Tell me your party platform in 15 seconds. Anti-corruption, government reform. Working wrong. You didn't ask me for a donation once. Not once. Ted Cruz is next to you in the lunch line. You can smell his breath on the back of your neck. He's asked if he can sit next to you.

What do you do? Run away? Okay, you got that one right. This is something I never thought I'd see, like Bigfoot or a hit TV show about gay hockey players. But these candidates seem to want to help. They were political unicorns. I'm getting this feeling that I don't know what to do with.

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I will tell you. I will tell you. Did you, could you feel them watching that clip? Just like, yeah. Was everyone gripping their own, like steering wheel? Yes, everybody's holding. Everybody's around. What am I going to do? Are you just, are you addicted to play?

characters who have to get out of stressful situations? Oh, yeah, it's an issue. It is. You just want to be at a place of tension and uncertainty at all times. That's right. It's right. It's my therapist's whole idea of healing, I guess. Let me tell you, as long as you can work in Hollywood and use that as therapy,

you are doing something right. Congratulations. Thank you. Yes. I'm so excited for people to see the show, and I brought you this gift. It didn't used to have my face on it, but now it does. Your face is out of book.

I know. And I didn't write it. You didn't write it. No, Harlan Cobin wrote it. We have fans here? Yeah. You're part of the Harlan Coben. You're part of the HCU now.

You're in his universe. He's like a whole genre. It's like science fiction, westerns, and Harlan Coben. Are you ready for the Harlan Coben super fans? I'm ready. You're ready? I'm ready. They're going to come.

This is great. I like that you're like, there's a new Netflix series. Do you want to read the book first? How much time do you think I have, Brett? For God's sakes. You must have a lot. I have so much free time. Let me tell you.

It is great. I binged it this past week. Oh, thank you. It's fantastic. For the people who haven't seen it, I don't want to give away any spoilers. No, we can't. What's happening with I Will Find You?

Okay, so it's about a journalist played by me. Congratulations. Thank you. You were my inspiration. Thank you. It really shone, it shines on screen, yeah, you can see it. Right, okay, good. I'm glad you saw that.

And then Sam Worthington plays a fugitive, and we're both on a journey to find his son. I will find you. It's a very clear action, find, and we're doing it. How do you get into character with a journalist? Are you doing journalistic research, or are you just watching The Daily Show to try to figure out how I pretend how to do it?

Like I said, it's just watching. watching you every day. You just watch me. Thank you, yes. This is why you get Emmys. They give you Emmys because of this sort of research. Oh, my God. Well, I do feel like journalism and acting, they're sort of spiritual cousins.

There's a shared DNA, right? Your job and our job is to really deeply listen and to find the humanity in people's stories. And that's what I really connected to about this character. She's kind of like a... She's kind of like an old soul. I worked with the prop department to pack her bag that she has with her, and inside was a 35-millimeter camera,

a handheld recorder, a notebook. She's just a really, like, hands-on, like, tactile boots on the ground kind of reporter. And, yeah, and mostly it was just inspired by you. Yes, thank you, yes. I know you did that with you. severance as well, correct? You kept sort of a journal of some of the paintings

that your character would make. Like, you seem to take your artistic interests and hobbies and use them to sort of flesh out these characters. Is it fair to say that you're a painter? You play ukulele, from my understanding. Sometimes. Sometimes. And sort of mediocre, but I can't.

I think, is it all ukulele sort of mediocre? Ooh, burn. Careful. Careful, ukulele players come at him. Those ukulele have, like, one sad strum that still sounds kind of happy. You're like, oh, d-ring. I do feel like if you're holding a ukulele, like, you can't really be that sad. No, I was going to say, you're finding some joy, right?

Yeah. You can't also be that artistically inclined. It's like, get a fucking guitar, right? Take that, take that. Take that. Take that. Take that. You better watch out. You're right. You're right. I need that back up here. But you have, I think what I find most compelling about sort of your journey as,

well is your interests outside of this. I know, like, you've done circus. You stepped away from Severance and did circus. I did. You have many other hobbies. Do you see your... Yeah, I told them, I was like, can you guys take a break for a second?

I'm gonna go do the circus. I got to take a walk. And they're like, we've gotta finish the season. And I'm like, no. Yeah, we blame you for the fact that there isn't a season three yet, right? Is that... Oh.

You know, good things take time. They do, you're right. You can't just shit it out. It's a, oh. Okay, well, that's a totally other story. That's something totally different. I don't know. I'm curious, I'm curious that somebody who is an artist in many senses of it all,

do you view as the other things that you do in service of your acting projects, or do you see them as something that live outside of that? Such a great question. You're such a great journalist. This is why. And you're so perceptive. Thank you, yes. I mean, I think anything you do in life is going to,

filter into the art that you make. And yeah. Well, you also do improv. I do. I started out an improv, and we were trying to remember how we know each other, and we have no idea. But we sort of met in Chicago in the improv scene. I think there's something about listening.

There's something about being present with another person. Very much so. And like stepping out. into the total mystery of like, I have no idea what's going to happen, and I have to have my scene partners back. Yeah, there's a beauty in that. It's giving over to that moment. There's also like an acceptance of failure.

I know you still do improv. Yes. But you are, you are... Are you implying that I'm failing at improv? I guess what I'm saying... There's an element of what is fun about improv is that it doesn't work 90% of the time. Totally.

Whereas in acting, you get another take. Yes. Right? It's like the one time in life when you get to, like, a second chance at a moment. And that's what's so, like, exciting about it. You're like, I'm going to try to get this more real every time. But in improv, it's one and done. You're failing, and it's over.

Is that harder now? Because people know you. They have expectations of you. Like, what is your relationship with to an audience now doing an improv show? Oh, it's a delight. I mean, it's kind of like an emotional thrill, I guess. stepping out and just, I improvised with my college friends from Chicago.

And so, yeah, we just have such a good time. And you're on the edge of the mystery. Ooh, the edge of the mystery. The edge of the mystery. Are you able to utilize that in doing something like this? I mean, I will find you, it's, you find the funny and the comedy that is there, but it is a taught thriller. It is moving, it is plotted really well.

It's nothing but cliffhangers. How do you find those moments of levity and those moments of improv in something that is plotted like this? Well, Sam and I had a great time on set. A fun fact is that he and I have the same birthday. I know. And when that...

And you can see that on screen. You really can. It's purely the reason why we got cast. If you have an August 2nd birthday, you're going to be in our show. This is what I've been saying. When I've been bugging my agents and manager, about why I'm not getting this role.

They're like, you were born on the wrong day, man. I'm sorry. That March 9th is no good. Okay, wait, but have you ever heard of the birthday paradox? No, I have not. Okay, this is great. Oh, my God. See, here's the deal. I go to the Maga Universe and I get flat earth,

I get algae deep state, and now you're giving me birthday fucking paradox? Okay, wait. Okay, wait. So it actually has... All right, what do we have... It's actually, like, not even a paradox. It's just math. So don't be so scared.

Okay, thank you. All right. Still a little frightening. So, if two people are in the room together, there's a one in three. 365 chance that they had the same birthday, right? Right. But if there's 23 people in the room,

there's a 50-50 chance. Like, who else here was born on August 2nd? Is that right? See? Tyler was. Is that right? It's just math. Look at that.

I think it's like 73, in a room of 73 people, it's like 99% chance you'll, like that two people will have the same birthday. And look at this. We did. You're on the show. How are your acting shots? I will find you starring you and me insane.

Well, Brett, I will find you is fantastic. Also, you won an Emmy for Severance. I will say, you need to tell that slacker, Ben Stiller, to stop watching basketball games and get working on season three. We need that to happen, right? I know, we're doing it. We're doing it. I mean...

Yes, yes, yes, yes. Incredible work. Thank you so much. And congratulations, most of all, for being on a book. Okay? You're on a book. She did it.

Yes. We're a nice looking person. Is he from your country? Is he from your country? No, he's got such a nice way about him. My people are so mean. Be careful that. No, I can put him in a movie right now.

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