The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Trump Gears Up for a Trade War | David Chang

Episode Date: March 6, 2018

Trevor gives props to Jordan Peele for his historic Oscar win, Trump spoils for a trade war, and chef David Chang chats about his Netflix docuseries "Ugly Delicious." Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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this is the Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Ears Edition. What's going on, everybody? Thank you so much and welcome to the Daily Show. Thank you for tuning in. I'm Trevor Noah, thank you. Take a seat, everybody. Take a seat. Take a seat, our guest tonight. Here to talk about his new Netflix show, world chef David Chang is here! For first, for first up, did you guys watch the Oscars? Yeah? You did? Well, if you didn't, you missed out. A Mexican one for directing. A fish one best picture. And my favorite moment of the night, Jordan Peel became the first black person to win the Oscar for best original screenplay. Congratulations Jordan, big congrats to win the Oscar, the best original screenplay. Congratulations, Jordan.

Big congrats to my man for making history, but I have to admit, I'm a little bit upset that he beat me to it because I totally wrote a brilliant script for a sequel to How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. Yeah, it's called How to Lose a Guy in 9 days, way more efficient. But nobody liked it. But one of the biggest moments of the night actually happened after the ceremony was over. And we also have some breaking news to pass along to you. Francis McDorma reportedly had her Oscar temporarily stolen last night happened at the governor's ball. This right here is

the suspect, Terry Bryan, the New York Times is reporting that this guy grab the statue and ran out. You know, when we said we wanted black people to get more Oscars, this is not what we had in mind. But I'm glad. I'm glad that Francis McDormon got her Oscar back because you know if she didn't, today there would have been three billboards up in Hollywood Boulevard looking for it. So I'm glad and congratulations. But let's move on from Oscar Gold to American Steel. Last week, President Trump won the award for Best Original Way to destroy an economy.

Today, Washington made Wall Street blink hard. Stocks tanked after the president said he plans to impose steep tariffs of 25% on steel imports and 10% on aluminum across the board. What's been allowed to go on for decades is disgraceful. It's disgraceful. And when it comes to a time when our country can't make aluminum and steel. And somebody said it before and I will tell you you almost don't have much of a country because without steel and aluminum your country's

not the same. You know what I love about Donald Trump is he says crazy shit and he's already put himself in a straight jacket. That's right, without steel, you can't have a country. Ah! You can't have a country. Aah! But that's right. Donald Trump wants a tariff on steel and aluminum. I say aluminum, but I'll say aluminum for you.

Which is more terrible news for Alex Jones. Yeah, first they pulled his YouTube ads, and now all his hats just got more expensive. Now, unsurprisingly, a lot of people were against Trump's idea to impose tariffs on every nation in the world. But the strongest opposition came from within the president's own party. House Speaker, Paul Ryan's spokeswoman, releasing the following statement, warning against the move, saying in a statement, quote, we are extremely worried about the consequences of a trade war and are urging the White House to not advance with the plan. It's going to turn around and bite the American citizens with much higher taxes, much higher, much higher costs.

It's all going to hurt American consumers and our allies, please reconsider your solution. Trump has really warned Lindsay Graham down. Yeah, the presidency has basically turned him into America's most tired babysitter. It's just like, now cryons on the furniture, please consider your position. And by the way, am I the only person who still thinks it's weird that lawmakers have to go on TV just so they can speak directly to their president? It's like, thank you for having me on, Wolf. Now listen, Mr. President, Please don't impose the tariffs. taxxxxxxx. their, th. th. th. th. th. thu, thu, thu, thi. thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, their, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their. And, their. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. th. thi. th. th. th. th. th. to, th. to, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th.tariffs. Like it's only a matter of time before lobbyists start planting their agendas inside Happy Meals, because they know Trump will find it.

Oh boy, it's Coco, the deregulating panda. But I'm not surprised that they're pulling out all the stops to try and sway Trump. Because you see, economists have warned that starting a trade war could increase the cost of living for Americans across the board. Although, according to Wilbur Ross, Commerce Secretary and Living Worthers original, the impact won't be so bad. What I would like to do, though, is to emphasize again the limited impact. In the can of Campbell's soup, there's about 2.6 cents, 2.6 pennies worth of steel.

So if that goes up by 25%, that's about six-tenths of one cent on the price of a can of Campbell's soup. Well, I just bought this can today, that is 7-11 down here, and a price was $1.99. So who in the world is going to be too bothered by six-tenths of a cent? He's so cute! It's like you can't even hear when he's saying, old doze-o-jojo. It's like a white Ben Carson over here, you know? Yeah, can you imagine him and Ben carson having a conversation together? Would last forever be like, have I told you about my soup cans and

Ben would be like the best can of all is the human skull Now commerce secretary soup dog might be right that one individual can of soup won't go up a huge amount. But the problem is that when America imposes a tariff like this, other countries could retaliate and then things escalate. The international community is responding to President Trump's desired tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. Officials from the European Union vowed to impose taxes on U.S. goods, including Harley-Davidson motorcycles, bourbon whiskey and Levi's jeans. In turn, President Trump threatened to tax

European cars. If the EU wants to further increase their already massive tariffs, he'll add a tax on their cars. You see, it started at steel and aluminum and now we're up to whiskey and jeans. And honestly, I think the European Union is going about this the wrong way. You're not hurting Trump by threatening Jim Bean and Levi's. All right, Trump has never touched alcohol, and he doesn't exactly have what we call jeans ass, okay? And so now, you'd think, Trump getting all these bad Yelp reviews on his terriff would make him twice.

But jokes on you on you on you on you on you on you on you twice. But jokes on you, he doesn't think once. President Trump is doubling down on those tariff proposals. Yesterday he tweeted that trade wars are good and easy to win. The truth is, trade wars aren't easy to win. In fact, already a study has shown that even before a trade war, Trump's tariffs by themselves could cost Americans 146,000 jobs. Yeah, and don't forget the past two presidents tried this type of thing and it didn't work. George W. Bush tried steel tariffs too and studies showed that they cost America far more jobs than they saved and President Obama put tariffs on tires but they ended up costing Americans thousands of jobs and nearly a billion dollars. Yeah, a billion dollars on tires.

I mean, I know us black guys like spending money on wheels, but God damn. Now, although Trump's solution may be extreme, that doesn't mean that he's wrong about the underlying issue. Because the truth is, China is dumping steel into the U.S. and it is hurting American steel companies. So Trump is right about the problem, but his solution will cause even bigger problems. He's like a doctor who's great at the diagnosis, terrible at the cure. You know, he's just like, you have skin cancer, so I'm going to chop

off your dick. Wait, what? But like it or not, Trump is the doctor America chose, so it's ultimately his call. So even if it's bad policy, America could be headed for a trade war, which to be honest, of all the wars we thought Trump could get us into. I mean nuclear war, race war, a trade war is like the least bad option. We'll be right back. Hey everybody, John Stewart here. I am here to tell you about my new podcast, The Weekly Show, it's going to be coming out every Thursday. So exciting, you'll be saying to yourself, TGID. Thank God it's Thursday. We're going to be talking about all the things that hopefully obsess you in the same way that they obsess me. The election. Economics. Earnings calls. What are they talking about on these earnings calls? We're going

to be talking about ingredient to bread ratio on sandwiches. And I know that I listed that fourth, but in importance it's probably second. I know you have a lot of options as far as podcasts go, but how many of them come out on Thursday? I mean, talk about innovative. Listen to the weekly show with John Stewart, wherever you get your podcast. Welcome back to the Daily Show. My guest tonight is a world-renowned chef and founder of the Momofuku Restaurant Group. He has a new documentary series on Netflix called Ugly Delicious.

David Chang! Welcome, sir. Excited to be here. Welcome to the show. Glad that you're here. Disappointed you didn't bring any fried chicken with you. I'm addicted to a lot of your food and so many other people are. This Netflix series has started off with a bang. People are loving it. Why the title, ugly, delicious.

Well, as you saw in that clip, I grew up eating really well. My mom cooked a lot of Korean things, and growing up in Northern Virginia, it wasn't that cool. In fact, I was like the butt of many jokes. So when I started cooking professionally, those were the foods that I never wanted to toubts. Because I was ashamed of it, or I of the foods that I think are truly delicious, but may not be cool or is looks good on a photograph somewhere like a curry is a perfect example. Bullock curry is so good, but isn't something that's going to be on the cover of a magazine.

And for you growing up, your food was a part of your culture but it was also something that people used to tease you about. Do you think that that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's thi thi thiii thi 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, thi, thi, thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii, thi, thi, thi, th people used to tease you about. Do you think that that's a big part of food is the cultural identity that comes with it? Absolutely, because we're at a, not a crossroads, but food is more popular than ever before. And it sort of intersects so many different parts of culture throughout the world. So in so many of the different parts of culture. So in so many of the thrown s s s many of the bad things in culture. Right, like for

instance with Chinese food. There's an episode where you delve into Chinese food and it feels like it's less about the Chinese food itself and about how Chinese people in America have had to assimilate and what that means and how the food has had to assimilates in many ways to fit in the the the the of........, the the, the the, the the, th. th. th. th. the the, th. th. th. the the, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. the the, thi, thi. thi. thi, thi, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th.. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, the, the, the, th. And, the the th. And, the th. And, the thin, thin. And, the thin. And, the thin. And, they. And, they. And, they's, they's, they's, they's, they's, they's, they's, they's, they. And, th culture. Like, what did you learn in that experience when looking at Chinese food on its own in America? I mean, it goes all the way back to when they came to work on the railroads and how they were marginalized way back then in the 189 years or so. And without getting too much in the history, I feel like as delicious as Chinese food is,

and it's like the most prevalent kind of food throughout the world, it seems. It's never been seen as like as cool as other European cuisines. And quite frankly, I think that there has been a lot of sort of hidden racism in how people perceive, not just Chinese food, like basically anything that's different than the mainstream America. Right? And you see that with MSG or how people see like cheap meats in Asian restaurants, and a lot of that's not true, right? They're just, you th, you th, you th, you th, you th, you th, you th, you th, you th, you th, you th, you th, you th, th, th, th, 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, thro, throooooooooooooan, throoan, throan, throooan, throooan, throoooooooooooooooooooo, Chinese restaurants, and a lot of that's not true, right? They're just, you know, not even misperceptions, they're just wrong, right? It's interesting that you bring up racism with regards to food because those are stereotypes that you see, you know, rearing their ugly heads all over the world. You know, people go,

watermelon, black people and chicken and they'll be like, oh, you eat this type of food if you're Asian and you eat this. There are certain ideas that come from food. There are certain stories that are told by the food. There's an episode where you talk about fried chicken. And what I loved is in the story, you know, you're out in the south. You're meeting with people who make fried chicken. Did you find that it was interesting to speak to people about where the chicken came from, how it came to be popularized, and how they saw the story as it related to the food?

Absolutely. And I think, first and foremost, about fried chicken, it's a story that a lot of people don't know about. Everyone I think that eats chicken will find it to be a fried chicken to be delicious. Again, the world over almost, but the story of how it was born out of oppression and slavery for the most part, the fried chicken that we all most are commonly associated with, that's a really tough story to tell, right?

And if we can't talk about fried chicken, how are we supposed to talk about other things that are problematic in this world? And going back to the so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, 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, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, the the the the, the the, the, the, the, the, the, the, to the sort of the popularity of fried chicken shops, there's a scene where I'm talking to my friends really and questioning them, the same questions I'd answer myself, and the reality is it's like, it's a responsibility that I think today in 2018 that we should know more about and we should talk about. And it's not easy to talk about. I mean, I think you have to watch the episode because I think think we think we're think we're think we're think we're think we're think we're think think thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thr-a thr-a thi thi thr-a thr-a thr-s thi thi thi thi thi the the the the the the thi thi thi thi thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, the, the, throooooomomooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooome and. the and. th talk about. I mean I think you have to watch the episode because I think we're not trying to answer anything, we're just trying to start the conversation about that. Because it's just too dense of a topic. Do you feel like that's something people

could do like at restaurants, like the waiter should have to tell you about the history when they give it to you? So you should be like like like like what what what what what what what what what what what what the the the the the their their their their their their their th. I th. I th. I'll th. I'll th. I'll not th. I'll not th. I'll not we're not we're not to to we're not we're not to to to to to wea wea wea wea wea wea wea we an we an we an we an we an we an we an we an we an we an we an we an we an we an we an we an we are are not we are not we are not we are not we are not we are not we're not we're not we're not we're not we're not th. I'll not th. I'll not try. I'll try. I'll just try. I'll just try. I'll try an try and and and and. I'll just try and. I'll just try an try an try an we' we' we' we' try an tell you about slavery and oppression. This chicken over here comes from a long history of people being oppressed and you're like, I'm going to go with the rice. Can I go to rice? No, it's not about that. I mean, certainly it could be, but we live in a world where there's so much information at your fingertips, like why not go down that rabbit, right? Right.

Just a little bit. chicken episode where it's not about fried chicken where I say to David Simon great director of the wire where I'm like hey I would have a problem of someone that's not Korean starts making kimchi right and he sort of smacks me down being like you're an idiot right like America is about cultural appropriation when it's done like very well right that makes any sense and I thought about that and I was like man he's absolutely right in the sense that the only way I'm going to get th a th. th. th. th. the the to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the to the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the their. I their. I's their. I'm 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 th. I'm th. I'm to to to to to th. I'm to to thr-I. I'm thr-I. I'm throwne. I'm tre. I'm tre. I'm not I'm trean. I'm trean. I'm thro. I'm thr-I. I'm the the throwne. I was like, man, he's absolutely right in the sense that the only way I'm going to get this person that's making kimchi to appreciate kimchi is to let them go down the rabbit hole. Right, right, and maybe they're going to be the biggest advocate of it, but if I'm there judging them saying like you can't do this, right Nashville because I love hot fried chicken so much. Of

course the first thing you want to do is pay homage but we it's a it's a problem sometimes right it's a what happens if you start killing the very thing that inspired you. Right that's really interesting and that's I think what the show does it asks questions it starts conversations and most importantly, it makes me hungry. That shit. Thank you so much for being on the show. Amazing to happen here. Ugly Delicious is available on Netflix now. David Chang, everybody.

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