The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Trump Bores UAE Businessmen About Sean Duffy & Lee Greenwood Cameos in Qatar | Rep. Jake Auchincloss

Episode Date: May 16, 2025

Jordan Klepper recaps Trump’s visit to the United Arab Emirates, where he was greeted by a lackluster hair dance ceremony, serenaded a Qatari military base with Lee Greenwood, and twisted discussions about drones into a ramble about Sean Duffy and Pete Buttigieg’s bicycle. Plus, as his Middle Eastern tour comes to an end, Josh Johnson analyzes whether the president accomplished anything. Ronny Chieng tests out effective altruism by joining the Shrimp Welfare Project to ascertain if sparing shrimp from anxiety and painful death is a productive way to be philanthropic.Visit the Shrimp Welfare Project on social to learn more:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ShrimpWelfareProjectInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shrimpwelfareproject Massachusetts Democratic Congressman Jake Auchincloss joins Jordan to unpack his recent 27-hour markup session of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. They discuss how the proposed Republican-led legislation would cut Medicare and Medicaid for Americans, whether the two parties can find common ground, if Trump is causing a “constitutional crisis,” and a path forward for Democrats addressing rising prices for housing, the cost of energy, and issues in education.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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-♪ International humiliation one after another. Oh! This morning, Donald Trump said goodbye to Qatar, but not before making an appearance at an American military base, where he sashayed for the soldiers. Oh, look at that. That's sexy, right? Oh, that's sexy. Yeah.

Show the boys what we're fighting for over there, right? Sexy baby. And, of course, Trump once again was serenaded in person by proud-to-be-an-American singer Lee Greenwood, which begs the question, did Donald Trump kidnap Lee Greenwood? I mean, I get having him sing at a campaign rally, but dragging him all the way to Qatar,

is Greenwood like that Mad Max guitarist? Is he just chained to Trump's podium at this point? Lee, Lee, Lee, are you being held against your will? If you are, give us a sign. Struggle to hit the high note. -♪ But there ain't no doubt I love this land. Oh, God, he needs help. Oh, God, oh, God. Someone call Liam Neeson.

Or Mel Gibson, probably. He'll do it. Yes. Anyway, after blue-balling our troops, Trump was off to the United Arab Emirates, the country Americans always click on accidentally on the drop-down menu. Okay. Remember when we used to be at the top all the time? You know what? You want to win my vote?

Make that your campaign promise. America first on the drop-down menu. I'll vote for that every time. Oh, and as we've discussed, been discussing all week, Trump has been receiving a huge welcome at each stop on this tour. Saudi Arabia gave him a horse guard. Qatar gave him horses and camels

and a sword-dancing ceremony. UAE, you got a lot to live up to. Show us what you got a lot to live up to. Show us what you got. -♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, for a Pantene commercial? Is that a threat? Like, work with us or we'll clog your drains? But look, look, this wasn't a sightseeing trip. Trump was there to talk business. So the main event of the day was a roundtable with some of America's top defense contractors,

a chance for Trump to be focused on selling American goods. So make that sales pitch and bring it home. We're coming up with a new system of drones because drones are really, if you look at the war that's going on, it's horrible. When you look at what's happening with Russia and Ukraine, the drone is killing tremendous numbers of people. You hide behind a tree and the drone comes down

and it circles you with fire. You don't have a chance. The tree comes also by the way it's so intense I mean you see these trees being knocked down like like they're being sawed down by a top-of-the-line timberman like like you know who Sean Duffy Okay. Uh... Okay, this was about drones. Uh, we're getting it off track here. Not about trees or the Timberman, so let's get back to the drones

and forget about Sean Duffy. Do you know that Sean Duffy, the head of the Transportation Department who's working right now on the airports and getting a system because Biden didn't do a thing for four years. Okay, airports, Joe Biden. Oh, shit. I know what's about to happen.

Okay, everyone stay calm. We're entering a weave. Whoo! Weave, weave, weave. That's the weave. Buckle up, everyone. The man's been up for four days. This is a jet the weave. Buckle up, everyone. The man's been up for four days. This is a jet-lag weave, all right?

This could get bumpy. Biden didn't do a thing for four years, and Pete Buttigieg was the head, and he goes bicycling to work. He takes a bicycle to work. Can you believe he's running the biggest air system in the world, and he takes a bicycle to work? Uh, uh, so Pete Buttigieg should have taken a plane to work.

Is that what? I'm overthinking it. I'm overthinking it. It's a weave. You got to steer into the spin. What? And they say he's gonna run for president. I don't see it. Who knows, right? But I don't see it. Have you ever been in a corn maze, and you just can't find your way out."

Okay, yeah, okay, all right, all right. A Buddha judge for president, I mean, who knows? Probably not worth speculating about with a bunch of Middle East businessmen. Can we just get back to what we were talking about? But what people don't know about Sean, because I mentioned lumberjacks. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Wasn't about lumberjacks. Not about lumberjacks, okay? You were talking about drones. Forget about the lumberjacks. I mentioned lumberjacks that Sean, you probably didn't know this. I'm not talking about this Sean. This Sean, no, this is not, this is a different Sean. Sean Duffy, the head of transportation. He's a great Sean, though, I have to tell you.

-"He's a great Sean?! We're just ranking Sean's now? He got Sean Hannity, Sean Spicer, Sean of the Dead, Sean derives!" At this point, everyone in the room was probably like, can we just give you our bribe and go home? Mr. President, look, no. No.

No, I believe. No, I believe. I believe. I believe. Mr. President, I believe in you. You can find your way back to the drones. Take us home, Donnie. He's a great Sean, though, I have to tell you.

But John Duffy was the world champion for five years, climbing trees and down, up and down, world champion. So that's what you call a serious lumberjack. He's doing a fantastic job, too, a really respected guy and a terrific champion. Because when somebody's a champion, he's the world champion. A long time.

He came down. When you come down those trees, coming down at a rapid, he said that started getting you back. You often break your back. You miss a shot and you're coming down faster than the human body was meant to come down. But he's doing a fantastic job at transportation. Look at those faces. This man right here is a Boeing executive. His planes fall out of the sky and he's sitting here like,

now this is a disaster. Can you imagine the translator at this event listening to all of this shit? Like, uh, uh, he said he loves it here. I don't know. All right, so, okay, just to recap. Here. All right, what do we have?

So, we went from drones to lumberjacks to Sean Duffy to Pete Buttigieg back to Sean Duffy as a sexy lumberjack. And I won't play the rest for you because he went on for 13 more minutes with mentions, and this is all true of the stock market. He got into there for a little bit. Lee Greenwood, obviously. And how the 2020 election was rigged.

And in case you're wondering when he weaved his way back to the drones, he never f***ing dead. Laughter and applause Never. Never get back. Applause Leader of the free world, everyone. So, that was the end of President Trump's visit to the Middle East. The question is, after visiting three countries in four days, did the whole thing yield any results?

To find out, let's go live to United Arab Emirates with Josh Johnson. Applause -"As-salamu alaykum, Jordan." -"Okay." What was your takeaway, Josh, from the trip? It seemed like kind of a business as usual for Trump. What are you talking about?

This is a life-changing trip for Trump. Don't forget, this guy used to hate Muslims. He tried to ban them from the country. He called President Obama Barack Hussein, and he capitalized every letter in Hussein. Screaming it with his thumbs. Yeah, I mean, he seemed to not like Muslims. Not like?

He didn't know the difference between Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. He called them Little Isis, Big Isis, and Isis Tokyo Drift. But then he visited their lands, and they showed him their culture. And they taught him their history, and then they gave him a $400 million jet, and it was something about all of that that now he loves Muslims.

It's beautiful. I don't know if it was all of that. It might just be the free jet. You cynical son of a bitch. Why can't you believe in something beautiful? because all of that, it might just be the free jets. You cynical son of a bitch. Why can't you believe in something beautiful, all right? Point is that Trump is changing. It doesn't matter why. If I'm being honest, I can relate.

When I first started at The Daily Show, I didn't really f*** with white people like that. But then one day, one of my white coworkers started leaving me free yogurt in the fridge. And I realized white people weren't devils. They were people who gave me free yogurt. Wait, that's you who keeps taking my yogurt? A lot of white people put Klepper on their yogurt

Klepper. I don't think that's true. The point is that people can change. Trump is living by Martin Luther King's dream. Judge people not by the color of their skin, but the contents of their wallets. Okay, Josh, I hate to be that guy, but I don't think you're remembering black history correctly.

Wow. Oh, wow. Okay. I can't believe you're white-splaining black history to me during Black History Month. It's not Black History Month, Josh. How dare you? You know, I was right before. You are a raging bigot. More like Jordan Hussein. Okay, you know what? What if... What if I gave you a yogurt? I appreciate your culture.

Thank you very much. Josh Johnson, everybody. We come back. Roddy Chang loves seafood too much. Don't go away. Josh Johnson, everybody. We come back. Roddy Chang loves seafood too much. Don't go away. We'll be right back. Hey, do you want to save the environment? No. And I'm not the only softie out there. Over 3 billion people a year are donating. You got a dollar, man?

Shut up, man. I'm trying to talk about charity here. Donate their time and money. Cookies for sale! But for do-gooders like myself, how do you pick between so many deserving causes? Meet finance bro turned philanthropist, Andreas Jimenez Zoria. I was working in investment banking.

My wife was helping refugees and I saw how meaningful her work was and I decided to do the same. Oh, so you're helping refugees? Well, not quite. I'm helping shrimp. What? The Shrimp Welfare Project.

Why do you care about shrimp? It's shrimp. Well, there's a lot of evidence that they can feel stress and pain. So you decided to dedicate all your time and money into saving the lives of shrimp. Not quite. We're actually working to reduce the suffering when they die.

So after all your work is done, they still die? Yes, less painfully. How did you make this even stupider? That's right, the Shrimp Welfare Project is a charity improving the lives of appetizers. We make sure that they have a more humane slaughter method. We try to avoid overcrowding. We try to eliminate eye-stalk ablation, which is this practice of cutting or crushing of

the eyes of female shrimp. There is technology that alleviates suffering by the billions every year. Like what? Like electrical stunning that renders animals unconscious, and then they die but without feeling any pain. Okay, so you're electrocuting shrimp. That's right. This is a sex thing, right?

This is a kick thing, this is something you're just... No, it's not a sex thing. Sure. This doesn't sound like the charity pictures I'm used to. It's all part of a new movement called effective altruism. Effective altruism is a way of looking at ethics as a big math problem. And that's...bad? I think it's bad because I don't think that you can actually do ethics like math

because there's not just a bunch of things that you can put numbers on. There's a bunch of different kinds of values that are all in the mix. Okay, please don't be offended by this. Are you just saying this because you're bad at math? No. Effective altruists are like the young Sheldons of the charity world, using logic to find the most cost-efficient ways to relieve suffering, which sometimes means malaria prevention.

But other times, it leads to this. With a single dollar, we can improve the lives of over 2,000 shrimp. And zero humans. That is correct. But the philosophy of effective altruism pretty much boils down to this. F*** your feelings.

Traditionally, philanthropy has focused on what feels warm and fussy, and shrimp are not very relatable. They look like shit. And traditional charities make us feel like we're helping, but the math doesn't always add up. Where's all that AFPCA money going? Sarah McLoughlin's third summer house?

I think it's also good to look at charities and ask the question, how much of the money that you get are you actually using to make the world a better place? But I don't think that there's anything wrong with giving to stuff that is right in my backyard and that I care about and have like an emotional relationship, you know, like places that I love or species that I love. I agree.

So, f*** the shrimp. F*** the shrimp? Yeah. The Shrimp Welfare Project is a stupid, effective altruism charity that focuses on electrocuting shrimp and they don't poke their eyes out. They still kill shrimp by the trillions. They just suffer a bit less.

Okay, I mean honestly, like, if it does make shrimp feel less pain, then hey, that's great, it's interesting. What, so this is okay? The shrimp thing is okay. I do actually think that we should care about the suffering of non-humans, and that might include shrimp.

Seriously, shrimp? There's a think tank that looked We do actually think that we should care about the suffering of non-humans. And that might include shrimp. Seriously? Shrimp? There's a think tank that looked at all the behaviors that animals like shrimp show. And they show anxiety. They learn from experience. And they tend to wounds if they're hurt. There's now evidence that what they experience... Wait.

Did he just make shrimp warm and fuzzy? Maybe they do deserve peace and happiness on the way to becoming my scampi. The more I listened to Andreas, the more inspired I got. I needed to get out there and make a difference. Hi friend, do you care about ecology? Hey, you wanna talk about shrimp today? Hey, you have five minutes to save the shrimp? Kind of annoying, isn't it?

You're free! You're free! Hey, you come here! This wasn't enough. I was only saving a few shrimp at a time. But I had an idea to reach millions of people and make them see that shrimp deserve our love. Every hour, 50 million shrimp are harvested on shrimp farms, painfully.

But last year, 2.7 billion shrimp were given a helping hand. I'm Roy Chang, and for the past 20 minutes since I found out they exist, I've been supporting the Shrimp Welfare Project. Oh, we still eat them. We just electrocute them first. And we don't gouge our eyes out. You're welcome, big guy. Let's electrocute them first. And we don't gouge our eyes out. You're welcome, big guy. Thank you, Ronnie. When we come back, talk to us at gate o'clock.

You'll be joining me on the show. Don't go away. Welcome back to the Daily Show. My guest tonight represents Massachusetts' 4th District in Congress. Please welcome Democratic Congressman Jake Aukencloss. -♪ -♪ -♪ -♪

Thank you. You had a big week, right? There's this big, beautiful bill that's coming through Congress right now. Republicans have put it up, and you just got through a 27 1⁄2 marathon markup session. Is that right? You're part of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Jurisdiction over health care and energy. So we had 27 straight hours with the Republicans. How is that? I feel like I've done that in Pennsylvania before. I go to a lot of these rallies, and I can feel it. Their plan backfired. They put the health care portion of the bill in the middle of the night because they didn't want

Americans to see them cutting health care from 13 million patients. The problem is, that means they had to talk about health care policy at 3 or 4 a.m. And no one's at their best. So I had one Texas Republican trying to explain why firing the scientists at the FDA, who's in charge of making sure your eye drops

don't blind you, is not a win for government efficiency. Yeah. And that set the tone for their defense of a bill that I think of as the Brad Smith bill. Brad Smith's a billionaire, a donor to Trump, and was appointed to run healthcare for Doge, which is convenient for Brad Smith because his business sells health care services to Medicare and Medicaid.

Now, Brad Smith, he loves this bill because he's a billionaire, so he's getting a tax cut, and he's running Medicare and Medicaid, so he gets to decide which Americans are deserving of health care or not while he sells to the very agency that is regulating and reimbursing his own business. Brad Smith thinks this bill is terrific. I think Americans are gonna think that tax cuts for billionaires

should not be a prop for health care. I mean, I think that seems to be the first way. It seems to be the response people have to begin with. But there's a lot of conversation about these Medicaid cuts, right? And, first of all, we'll see where this bill lands. But the Republicans are pushing back. They're saying, why not?

Why are we giving Medicaid to the topic? They're saying, able-bodied, no dependents. What's wrong with making some concessions there? Is there a place in the middle you guys can find some common ground there? Why can't you give in to that request? There actually are fraud and abuse elements of that bill that were bipartisan, that were put in last Congress.

There were elements of that bill, for example, that took on health insurance corporations that were price gouging taxpayers and raising co-pays for prescription drugs. Now, Elon Musk tweeted about that bill in December and it got pulled down by Speaker Johnson. They're trying to stuff it back in here. So of course there are elements that we can agree on.

What we can agree on is making it more expensive to access at-home care if you're a senior citizen. Making it so that if you're a parent raising a kid with an intellectual disability, you now have to send your child to an institution rather than get at-home care from a personal care attendant. If you have insurance through your employer, you're now going to pay higher premiums. And for what?

To avoid having to raise the top tax rate from 37% to 39% for the richest Americans? I mean, do you think there are ears on the other side that are willing to hear this? Josh Hawley has been pushing back against some of these cuts. I mean, these are affecting people in red and blue districts. Is that a... I mean, that will play well,

perhaps, in the Daily Show's audience here. But in red states, will that play? We've been having this fight for 15 years. Democrats try to expand healthcare coverage. Republicans try to take it back. And repeatedly what we have seen, whether it's 2018, whether it's 2020, when Democrats campaign on expanding healthcare coverage, Democrats win. Yeah. Talk to me about the TikTok ban.

All right, you were a co-sponsor of the TikTok ban. It passed in both houses, signed into law by President Biden, and now Trump is refusing to enact it. Is this a constitutional crisis? Are we there? He's definitely breaking the law, as he is on a number of other fronts. Sure, yeah. He likes to do that.

We called that a weekday. The... Whoo! Whoo! I approach this bill, though, not as a member of Congress, but as a dad. You've got a son, yes? Mm-hmm. I do.

I got three kids, five, three, and two years old. How much are you dreading that first smartphone? I mean, just the price alone, because I'm a very cheap father. But, yeah, the idea of giving that into a child, it's like a loaded weapon. It is. These social media corporations

are attention-fracking our kids. They're rewiring our kids' brains. They are turning our children into a product, and they need to pay for it. We have to ban smartphones in schools. We've got to tax their digital advertising revenue $250 billion a year and use it to fix what they have broken.

And this TikTok divestment is the first step to taking back family time from screen time. I mean, I like this idea. An attention tax is a fascinating idea. I guess I'm curious, specifically with the TikTok ban, this does feel like a moment where Donald Trump has been told to do something and is not doing it. There's an executive order. It's passed through Congress.

You could make the argument this is a constitutional crisis. Is this the constitutional crisis? I don't know, but you are in Congress right now. The president is not willing to follow the laws of Congress and the previous president. What can you do? What should you do? There's two paths here.

One is the legal path. So a bunch of attorneys general across the states are gonna be suing Apple and Android and the other platforms that host TikTok to say that they have to follow the law by not hosting TikTok, even if Donald Trump won't. The second, though, is power. We got to take back power in Congress,

because Republicans view themselves as a rubber stamp. They think they're courtiers to the court at Mar-a-Lago. Democrats need to win the midterms and reinstate the checks and balances that our democracy relies upon. Yeah. What do you say, though? What do you say to someone who's like,

all right, this is a constitutional crisis. What do we need to do? I hope Apple sues somebody, and we'll wait a year and a half till we get some power. Like, OK, that sounds like a plan. But, I mean, shouldn't you impeach the president? Isn't there something you can do now

and through a governmental process to stop a president from clearly putting us in this constitutional moment? The Speaker of the House's nickname is MAGA Mike Johnson. They are never bringing articles of impeachment to the House floor. Democrats have to recognize that Americans know that we are against Donald Trump.

We have made that crystal clear. If we're going to win back power, if we're going to govern from a place of trust with the American people, we have to show people what we are for, not just what we are against. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. What is that? I've heard, I've even, like, there's this abundance agenda people are talking about.

Ezra Klein was on. Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson were on the show talking about this as well. I know you've talked about this. What is this vision for a future Democratic party that people can get behind? It's about doing better than your parents. That's the core promise in the United States, is we want people to do well

and we want their kids to do even better. Right now, what's holding back the next generation from doing better is the price of housing, the cost of energy, which is constricting the economy for the middle class, and excellence in education. Democrats have to have a bold agenda. We're going to get one-on-one tutoring to every student in America.

The school closures during the pandemic... The school closures were a catastrophe. The school closures were a catastrophe, and candidly, Democrats own a lot of that. We can fix it, though. In my own district, the city of Fall River, biggest city in my district, voted for Donald Trump, I saw 400 first graders get one-on-one tutoring,

15 minutes a day, high quality, remote. They gained six months of reading and math instruction just from 15 minutes a day. One teacher called it, quote, a gift. Every American student should get that gift in this country. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. We have to build five million homes in this country.

Baby boomers, they bought a house for, like, $14 in the 1970s, and it's appreciated. And that's great. But the next generation can't even get their hand on the bottom rung of the ladder, because they can't buy a house. Let's build five million homes in this country. Let's build five Hoover dams with a nuclear power,

and let's unleash this economy for the middle class. Where do you see that? Is there an example where you see that happening? Yes. Where? What is the city that is building at a pace and in the way that you think Democrats could emulate? Austin, Texas changed its zoning and land use code in 2022.

They built 50,000 apartments in two years. Rents went down by 20%. And then Joe Rogan and Elon Musk moved it. And now people are fleeing, right? And if people think that, hey, Democrats, you guys can't cut regulations, come on. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, a city that 88% of voters went for Kamala Harris,

Cambridge, Massachusetts just passed a zoning reform bill. 100 pages, 90 of those pages were just deleting old rules to make it easier to build missing middle housing, the kind of housing that 20-somethings, 30-somethings can buy and get a start in life. Mm-hmm. So you think we should look to Texas for some of these answers? Texas has been building more homes

than Newsham's California has. Mm, interesting. Now, when you look at the Democratic Party, are they focusing too much on messaging right now or they need to be the party of ideas? and New Sims California has. Interesting. Now, when you look at the Democratic Party, are they focusing too much on messaging right now, or they need to be the party of ideas? Party of ideas. There's no shortage of ambition.

There's no shortage of pollsters. What there is a shortage of is big, bold ideas that show Americans that we've got an agenda that makes kids do better than their parents. Yeah. So you want me to do better than my parents? I want your son to do better than you. Okay, that's a nice way of putting it.

To be fair, the ego in me, I'd be fine if my son did just as good as me. I think that would be perfect. Let's aim for that and see if we can find some consensus there, all right? Congressman Jake Auchincloss, we're going to be taking a quick little break. We'll be right back after that. Thank you. Thank you. then take matters into your own hands and be the leader you've been complaining for. Go to the link below to learn more from our friends at HeadCount about how you can actually run for office. We look forward to your unsolicited text

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