The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Trump Bulls**tted His Way onto the Forbes List | Tracy Morgan

Episode Date: April 24, 2018

A British town crier announces the birth of a royal baby, Trump allegedly lied in order to get a spot on the Forbes list in 1982, and Tracy Morgan discusses "The Last O.G." Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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April 23rd, 2018. From Comedy Central's World News Headquarters in New York. This is the Daily Show with Thank you so much for shooting in. I'm Trevor Noah. Thank you, everybody. Come on, settle down, get into it. Our guest tonight here to talk about his new show, The Lost O.G. Welcome to the Daily Show.

Trace Morgan is here, everybody. Thank you everybody. Come on, settle down. Get into it. Our guest tonight here here here here here to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the the to the to the to the the to the the the to the the tho, tho, tho, the tho, tho, the the tho, the tho, the the tho, 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 th, th, the the the th, th, down, get into it. Our guest tonight here to talk about his new show, The Lost OG. Tracy Morgan is here, everybody. It's going to be a fun interview. We want to stay tuned, but first, Great Britain just got one more taxpayer subsidized mouth to feed.

Big baby news from across the pond, we do have a new royal. An unofficial town crier proclaimed the news on the steps of the private Lindo wing of St. Mary's Hospital in West London where the Duchess of Cambridge gave birth. God save the Queen. That is a strange way to be born. I imagine if that guy with the bell is just there through the kids' entire life. He's like, hear ye, here, the royal baby is being conceived. Looks like missionary sex very boring.

Or like the kid turns 13 and the cries there outside the locked bathroom door. Here you, hear you, here you, the young prince has discovered himself. He's exploring his sexuality with the aid of a Victoria's secret, catch along! Here ye, hear ye. Anyway, this is a really great day. A new royal has been announced. And once he was born, his great-grandmother, the queen, greeted her new great-grandson, the way she greets every one of her grandchildren,

by holding him in her lap, hugging him gently and whispering into his ear, I will outlive you. You'll never have my throne. This is where you come for alternative views on the royal family. Oh, uh, in other news, in other news, you know that one healthy friend of yours who's always rubbing their salad in your face? And you wish they would drop dead? Well, be careful what you wish for.

Breaking news this evening from the CDC amid a mystery E. coli outbreak, now warning people not to eat Romaine lettuce unless you can be sure that it's not from Arizona. Dozens of people have been sickened from Ecoli poisoning linked to Romaine across 16 states. The CDC says the warning now includes whole heads and hearts of Romaine lettuce in addition to chopped Romaine and salads and salad mixes containing Romaine. Does the whole get paid every time he says the word Romaine? Like how many times did he say that? Just Romaine? to the word Romaine? Oh, you get paid? Oh, Romaine, snap. But yes, this is a big story.

There is a nationwide outbreak of Ecoli in Romaine lettuce. In fact, it's so serious that President Trump put out a statement saying that just to be safe, he hasn't eaten lettuce for the past 50 years. And this story was especially disturbing to me because I had no idea there were types of letters. I'm not gonna lie. I just thought lettus was lettuce. Like, you know, it's like now it's a big story. You can't eat one particular type of lettuce. I'm not gonna lie, this is a white people problem, so I mean, good luck with that.

Yeah, you can call us when it's cold slow, then we'll get stressed. So let's move on. Because. We're learning more about President Trump's infamous visit to Russia in 2013. According to the James Comey memos, which were just leaked, Trump claimed twice that he never stayed overnight in Moscow. He says he never slept over. But newly unearthed flight records show that Trump landed on a Friday and left on a Sunday. Now, to be fair, Trump said that he didn't sleep in Moscow. And it's probably pretty hard to sleep when your bed is soaked in pee.

So that could be one explanation. So, I mean, look, look, the truth is, it is big news that Trump may have lied about his trip to Russia. But let's be honest, it's not really a surprise, right? Trump lies, it's his nature. It's like being mad at the Pillsbury Doe boy for not having a dick. It wasn't his choice. That's just how he rolls. What was amazing, though, is that this weekend we also discovered Trump's origin lie. Like, this was a big thing for me, the bullshit foundation that he built

his entire bullshit career on. There's a new report tonight that President Trump may have lied his way onto Forbes magazine annual list of richest Americans back in the 1980s. Trump first made the list in 1982 with a reported net worth of $100 million, but the documents that's the true of $1 million. He lied about how many apartments the tru. He lied about how many apartments the tru. the units were worth, and that Trump, not his father, owned the apartments. That's right. All the way back in 1982, Trump apparently got onto the very first Forbes list by lying about his net worth and claiming that the stuff that his dad owned was actually his.

Yeah, which is a classic lie every 20-year-old would recognize, you know? It's like, let's get out of here, girl, I got my own place above my dad's garage. And please, and please, don't get me wrong. Don't get me wrong. This wasn't just a casual lie that Trump told at a dinner party, right? He made a concerted effort to fake interviews, references, and his financial statements. In fact, at one point, he even created a fake person. Former Forbes reporter Jonathan Greenberg claims in a new piece in the Washington Post that Trump called him pretending to be a Trump organization official named John Barron.

We have this really strange technical from Mr. Brown in teams of who is, you know, who holds the equity. Are you saying that perhaps for tax purposes it's been the ownership has been transferred to? Correct. Correct. That's correct. Okay and when you say an excess of 90% of the ownership only trade? tr. I tr tr tr tr tr tr tr tr tr tr tr tr tr tr tr tr tr. tr. tr. tr. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. true, true, true, true, we true, we the true, we true, we true, we true, we' true, we' true, we' true, we' the the the the the the the the th. We the the the the the the the the the the the th, we th, we th, we th, we th, we th, we th, we th, we th, we th. We th. We th. We th. We' th. We're th. We're true, we're true, we're true, we're true, we're true, we're true, true, true, we're true, we're true, we're true, we're th, you know, an excess of 90% of the ownership only? I'd say an excess of 90% in fact. Well, it's really closer to even the ultimate, but it's an excess of 90%, yes. Even the ultimate? You know, it's amazing to me that even with all the effort Trump put into getting onto the Forbes list, he still never thought of doing a different voice. He just changed his name, you know? And knowing Trump, he probably put on a full costume with a hat, fake mustache, full prosthetic nose,

and then still use his own voice on the call. He was like, it's me, John Barron, not Donald Trump. You can tell from my mustache and different nose. Now, Trump lying to Forbes, because it could easily be seen as just someone trying to boost his ego. But it turns out that Trump's lie may have gotten him a whole lot more than just some flattering press. Because Donald never had an actual statement of his assets and his liabilities. He used the Forbes 400 and this statement of inflated assets to borrow billions and billions of dollars, which he used to build Atlantic City and over-leverage himself.

You're saying he wanted to use the Forbes list to fraudulently induce people to fund him in ways they otherwise would not? That's correct. I think he did that. Okay, I don't know about you, but this is mind-blowing. Trump lied to get onto the Forbes list. Then the Forbes list cemented him as a mogul, and then he used his mogul status to get to the White House. Because remember, his success story wasn't just a minor detail of who he was. It was the very heart of his campaign.

Forbes just came out and they said, I'm worth four and a half or five billion dollars. I'm really rich. I'm not even saying that in a bragging. That's the kind of thinking you need for this contract. So. you need for this country. So look, I'm really a good business, man. I'm so good a business. Oh, you people are going to be so rich so fast. You don't even... You don't know how rich you're going to be.

You're going to go from a detonation. It's going to phew. You're going to say, wow, what happened? You know, in retrospect, I feel like we should have asked what Pee-N-means. It's like, huh? Turns out, Pugh was a Muslim band. Who would have thought? Yeah, I didn't know. I didn't know. If I was a Trump supporter, this new revelation would have me shook.

I'm not going to lie. Because it turns out, his entire origin story was fake. Like, this would be like, 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, too, to thi, thi, thi, thi, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too. too. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. tttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttu. ttu. tu. tu. tu. tu. ttttrue. him every week and like, Bruce, does that mean clown still bothering you? Stay out of it, mom. If I was a Trump supporter, I would be so pissed because I voted for a rich guy who was always successful, not some trickster who lied his way onto the Forbes list. Like, if I find out he's not racist, I will be so mad. So mad. And you know what's depressing about this? Is that we know it's not going to change the thing.

Like none of Trump's lies have ever slowed him down. At this point, the best America can hope for is that he uses his lies to help the country move forward. That's it. Maybe he'll bullshit Kim Jong-un into swapping all of his nukes for three magic beans. That's all you can hope for now. Yeah. And then Kim's generals would be like, he gave you beans to which Kim will reply. Don't worry. He told me, after we plant them, we'll go pew. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. Have you ever been watching the news and thought to yourself, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, the the the the the the to the to the to to the to the to to the to to the to be, the 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 to be the the the the the their, the the the their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their their, their, their, their. their, tooombs. tooombs. toe. toe, the news and thought to yourself, wow, the Supreme Court sure does suck. We made a podcast about that. We sure did.

There is a supermajority of conservative maniacs on the Supreme Court right now, really doing some damage. I'm Michael. I'm Riannan. And I'm Peter. Our podcast, 5-4 is about all of this. Every week we dissect and analyze a different ruling that has made the little worse, a little more cruel. And you would not believe how many of them there are. Check out 5 to 4. That's the number 5-4, wherever you listen to podcast.

Welcome back to the day show. My guest tonight is a comedian and actor who stars in the TBS series The Lost O.G. Tracy Morgan! Tracy Morgan! Oh! Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man. Welcome to the show, Khan, sir. Thank you for happening.

It has been so long. I've wanted to have you on for such a long time. Because I'm scared you smart. There's athe show, Khan, sir. Thank you for happening. It has been so long I've wanted to have you on for such as long. Because I was scared, you're smart. There's a smart show, man. I had to go back and get my GED. Just come here. For real?

For real? I'm not really in the politics. I voted one time in my life, and that as for Dave Dinkins. We see how that turned out. Who the hell is Dave Binkin? The May of New York. Oh man. Well I'm glad you came Tracy. I'm glad you came. And before we go any further I want to say congratulations the last O.G. just got picked up for a second season. Yeah. I love that show man. I have so much fun doing it. You know what I love about the last OG is that it it. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. the. the last. the last. the last. the last. the last. the last. the last. the last. the last. the last. the last. the. the last. 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. 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 fun doing it. You know what I love about the last OG is that like it does what you love about that last OG. I'll tell you what I love. I love the fact that it does what your stand-up does. And I said this when I watched your special

on Netflix is that you have this weird ability to seem like you don't care about anything but you got all the heart in the world. And this show this this th. And this show show show show, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, th. And th. And th. th th th th thi, thin, thi, thi, thi, the the the th. their, th. thi, thi, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, is their, is the their, is the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the their, their, their, th. I, th. I, th. I th the, the, thi, the, the the thean, thean, thean, thean, thean, tho. the tho the the tho the the the the the the world. You know, and this show is not, because you play a character who's just come out of prison and he's trying to restart his life, he moves back into Brooklyn, he realizes his whole world has changed around here. And he struggles to get back into the world. Was was the Brooklyn story close to you because you're from there? Yes, man. These are real people. that I love about the show now. It's funny, but it's grounded. It's kind. It's a kind show. Stick with it's really kind. The funny's organic. When you got people like Tiffany Addis and Shedrick and Alam Alanado, right. And me is going to get Wild and Woolley out there.

Can I ask you something what like what was... But're gonna ask me, you're the district attorney? I cannot recall. I watch law and order. You ask me no questions. Ain't nobody said nothing when they booked me for the show, you're gonna ask you questions. What's the one thing you miss a bottle of the big You know you funny? You know you funny when you get the pretty girl in the front row to fart when she laughed.

Ha ha ha ha! Bah! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! You know, Tracy, I'm trying to conduct myself professionally here. I'm trying to do like a professional interview with you. You know these dudes? Like I've got a whole thing, plan, and I was like I'm going to be professional with this.

Like I had these questions and I was going to talk about how, like, how amazing the show is and how it talks about like the life of a person who's been incarcerated and how they struggle to get a job and how you know you humanize their experience and and you know you know she had twins and I was going for 15 years and I come home and I got twins I didn't even know it right so people love it because it's a real grounded story. And that's what I dig about it. You know, funny is one thing, we get your attention with the funny, but we keep your attention with the story and that's dope. It's also a story about starting over again and Tracy Morgan.

The last OG. Yeah. You know the greatest OG of all time was? Oh, O, O, O, O, O, O, O, O, O, O, O, O, O, O, O, O, O, O, O, O, O, O, O, O, O, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, th, 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, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, I I I, th, th, th, th, th, th.. I's, thi, thi, thi. I's, thi.e.e.e. I's, thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. the the funny, the funny, the funny, the funny He told him to go to the deck of a system. I wouldn't have chosen Obi-Wan. You wouldn't have chose Obi. No, I wouldn't have said YouTube. Oh, Obi-Wan-Kinobie. I just don't like this new Star Wars. Because the black dude look like Radio Raheen. And everybody know Chubaka's behind in this child support payment.

How many takes do you guys take to make like one, one scene on the show? One scene? Do you guys just laugh all the way through? No. Because if it's you and Tiffany and Cedric and no? No, it ain't that much. It's laughter but we stay in a moment. You ain't no funny about selling crack. So you have people on the set crying and, you gotta stay with the episode. You ain't seen nothing yet. That's how it turned out.

That's beautiful, Tracea. Yeah, that's what I was just sure I wanted to do. I show where you can cry. Not just cry. You said cry. I'm an expert in crying, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because, because like I say cry. I'm an expert in crying because that's how I got some girls when I was younger. I was crying. You'll see my bottom lip shawl shaking look.

Then they give me some. Serious. Let me ask you this, for a story that is about starting over again. For many people, your story in real life was inspiring because we all rooted for you. Everyone was like, we can't not have Tracy Morgan in our lives. You bring joy to people's lives. You make us love comedians or rallying each other. When you look at your character, when you look at your character in this show, is there is there a part of you in that story of starting all over again?. for th th th th for th th th for th at your character in this show, is there

a part of you in that story of starting all over again? If Tracy Morgan got a second chance at life, why can't trade Barker, who's my character? So I just, with this, I just want to make a real connection with the audience, with the people of the world. You know, we can all, we all deserve a second chance. Right. So I believe in that. We all make mistakes. But we have to really be careful of condemnation. Right.

We have to learn the language of love. In condemnation will hurt us. You can't condemn anyone. You can't condemn a race of people. It's just, with the thing that separates the people of the planet isn't culture. Isn't any of color or nothing, nationality. It's just pride. It's foolish pride.

I know swallow it. If you got pride, it's all about love, man. Yo, listen. In my world, Angelo Dundee was Mohammed Ali's manager for a long time. And you know he told Muhammad Ali one day? It don't cost nothing to be nice. Don't cost us none. We're here right now laughing and have a good time.

But soon as we leave out of here, we want to go back to that prideful stuff. I'm better than you. That got to end. That got that school. I cried all day. That could have been my kids. That could have been my kids. So I'll take this moment. I'm not afraid to move away from comedy here on your show.

This is where I wanted to say this. Thank you for having me on there. And you know I love you, Trav. I know that. You TV at Tracy Morgan, everybody. Watch the Daily Show with Trevor No. Ears Edition. Watch the Daily Show weeknights at 11, 10 Central on Comedy Central and the Comedy Central app. Watch full episodes and videos at the Daily Show.com and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for exclusive content and more.

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I'm Riannan. And I'm Peter. Our podcast, 5 to 4 is about all of this. Every week, we dissect and analyze a different ruling that has made our country a little worse, a little more cruel. And you would th th them there are. Check out five to four. That's the number five, dash the number four, wherever you listen to podcast.