The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Trump Is Really Bad at Commemorating 9/11 | Mitski

Episode Date: September 12, 2018

President Trump sends out a bizarre tweet to commemorate 9/11, Michael Kosta examines a high-stakes midterm race in Orange County, CA, and Mitski discusses "Be the Cowboy." Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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September 11th, 2018. From Comedy Central's World News headquarters in New York. This is the Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Ears Edition. Welcome to the Dacian show, everybody. Thank you so much for shooting it, and I'm Trevor Noah. Our guest tonight is a great singer and songwriter. Mitzky is joining us everybody. And she'll be talking with us and playing some music from her new album, Be the Cowboy. But first, let's catch up on today's headlines. If you are watching this show in North or South Carolina, please stop. Please stop watching this show and get somewhere safe. Collision course, Hurricane Florence barreling toward the East Coast, the monster

category four expected to become a category five today. The Mid-Atlantic Coast has a giant bull's eye on it as Hurricane Florence continues to grow into a monster storm. So far, mandatory evacuation orders are up in parts of three states affecting more than a million people. This could be the largest peacetime evacuation ever seen in the United States. Evacuating more than a million people. That is insane. It was going to be a million people. That is insane.

It was going to be 2 million people, but when some people heard that they'd have to relocate to Florida, they were just like, oh, we'll take our chances here, it's fine. We're not leaving. We're not leaving. We're not leaving. And mandatory evacuation has got to suck for everyone, right? line, he's like, I'm sorry, Vanessa, I can't stay, it's the law. It's the law, I gotta go. Yeah, the good news is, the good news is, the storm has made it safely past the Caribbean islands. Because like for me, I feel bad, they get hit so much, you know, year after year, a storm after storm. In fact, I think that's how people in the Caribbean got their

accents. They probably started with the wind wind wind wind wind wind wind wind wind wind wind wind wind wind wind wind wind wind wind wind wind wind wind wind wind wind wind wind wind,. their their their their their storm, their storm, their storm, their storm, their storm, their, their, tho, tho, their storm, their sa, their sa, their sa, their sa, their sa, their sa, the storm, the storm, the storm, the storm, the storm, the storm the storm the storm safely, the storm safely, the storm safely, the storm safely, the storm safely sa, the storm sa, the storm sa, the storm sa, the storm, the storm, the storm, the storm, the storm, the storm, their s s sa, their sa, th. thi. the, thea, thea, thooooooooooo, tha, tha, thoooooooooooooooooma, the storm tha, tha, a hurricane. And they were just like, yes, it's a beautiful day here in Kingston. It looks like we're here in for a spot of weather and all the other wind they hit me when they're a beer party and a blam blah blah about the face down. In other news, for anyone who's ever gazed up at a beautiful night sky and thought, wow, I wish there were ads up there, you're in luck. The Washington Post reports on why NASA's next rocket might say Budweiser on the side. The agency is setting up a committee to look into boosting NASA's brand by selling naming rights to rockets and spacecraft. It will also examine allowing astronauts to appear in commercials and on cereal boxes.

Okay, I'm not sure NASA really thought this one through, right? sending ads into space, really? Who's gonna see them? The aliens, that's who's gonna see them. Yeah, rocket goes up, six months later, a UFO shows up like, take me to your foot locker. We come for great values. And I don't know how iconic space would be if they came with ads.

That's one small step for man. Every kiss begins with K. All right, let's move on to our top story. As all of you know, today is September 11th. And as humans, we all have our own way of processing what happened that day. But as we know, in life there are humans, and then there's President Trump. And this morning, the nation's leader sent out a heartfelt tweet tweet that twe. twe. twe twe twe. twe twe, twe, twe, twe, twe, twe, twe, twe, twe, twe twe twe twe twe twes, twe tha tha tha tha today, today, today, tha today, ttax, ttax, ttax, ttax, tta ttax, tta tta tta tta tta t t t t t t t t t t t t, t, t, t, t, t, t t t t tod tod tod tod today, ttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttoday, today, today, today, there are humans and then there's President Trump. And this morning, the nation's leader sent out a heartfelt tweet that read 17 years since September 11th, exclamation points. Now, this tweet upsets a lot of people,

because on days such as this, part of any president's job really is to articulate the mood of the nation, whereas this tweet looks like it was ghost written by a calendar. And, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I th, and I th, and I th, and I th, and I'll, and I'll th, and I'll th, and I'll th, and I'll thi, and I'll th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi, thi, to articulate the mood of the nation. Whereas this tweet looks like it was ghost written by a calendar. And I'll be honest, I think we should give the guy some credit. First of all, he didn't say they were fine people on both sides, so that's progress. And secondly, the president was not wrong. It is September 11th that happened 17 years, right? Which means this is the most fact-a-a- has tweeted about in about three months. So that's a good, that's a step forward. And besides, compared to what Trump normally says about 9-11, today's tweet was a huge step

in the right direction, you know, which puts his pedometer at one, because Trump has never been able to talk about 9-11 on Twitter or in real life without being totally weird about it. Like, today's tweet was much better than the 9-11 tweet he sent out in 2013. Trump tweeted, quote, I would like to extend my best wishes to all. Even the haters and losers on this special date, the haters and losers, September 11th. Now, you see that I don't even even even even th, I don't even th, I don't even th, I don't even th, I don't even th, I don't even th, I don't even th, I don't even where to start, right? Best wishes, haters and losers, special date. It starts out sounding like a wedding invitation,

then it becomes a distrack, and then it ends as a birth announcement. That's what it felt like. Like Trump tried to commemorate 9-11, and then he ended up writing the world's most confusing hallmark card. That's what it was. And it turns out, it turns, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, t, it, t, t, t, te, te, te, te, te, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, tom, te, te, te, te, te, te, te, te, te, te, te, te, emotionally out-of-step shit about 9-11 since 9-11. On the day it happened, most people were thinking, is my family okay? Could this be the start of World War III? Donald Trump, on the other hand, was more concerned with bragging rights.

You have one of the landmark buildings down in the financial district, 40 Wall Street. Did you have any damage or did, you know, what's what's, the the the the th, their, their, tah was, their, their, their, their, thiiiiole, their, thiole, thiole, thiole, thi, thiole, thi, thiole, thi, thi, thi, thi, thioliolomea, thiolomea, thiolomea, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi-a, thi-s, thi-s, thi-s, thi-s, thi-s, thi, thi, thi, thi, thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.eei.a.a, thi-a, thi-a, tha, 40 Wall Street. Did you have any damage or did, you know, what's happened down there? 40 Wall Street actually was the second tallest building in downtown Manhattan, and it was actually before the World Trade Center was the tallest. And then when they built the World Trade Center, it became known as the second tallest, and now it's the tallest. Okay, so, so just so we're the th so here, two buildings have just collapsed, and Trump's

reaction is, I now have the tallest building in downtown Manhattan. That is not a normal thing to say. Like imagine if after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, FDR was like, December 7th, 1941, a date when my boat became the biggest boat in all of Hawaii. It was a pretty cool day, actually. Some would call it the bomb. And by the way, this was all before Donald Trump started running for presidents. Once he got on the campaign trail, his track record of talking about 9-11 went from weird

to downright hateful. There were people over in New Jersey, they were watching it, a heavy Arab population that were cheering as the buildings came down, not good. Hey, I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down, and I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down Okay now This is a proven lie, right? There were never thousands of Arabs in New Jersey

Celebrating the towers coming down, but to be fair. We do know that Trump suffers from a rare medical condition that causes him to see large crowds where they were none It makes sense. Oh and his lives about 9-11 didn't stop there, right? Because once he put New Jersey Arabs into the story, he was like, wait, I want to be in the story too. In our darkest moments as a city, we showed the world the very best of America. The firefighters and first responders and the police officers and the port authority workers. Everyone who helped clear the rubble.

And I was there, and I watched, and I helped a little bit. But I want to tell you, those people were amazing. I'm sorry, what? How do you help with 9-11 a little bit? Like, you either help or you don't. What? Did he go up to a cop and be like, hey, officer, you got a little schmutz right there. All right, I've done my part.

Good luck everybody. And look, I can't say for sure that he's lying. I'm just suspicious of someone who says that because Trump has never taken a little credit for anything, right? If he had helped at all, he would have been like, I cleaned up all of 9-11, folks. I was the first and last responder, all by myself. I also struggled to believe that someone who was helping can't remember what day it was. It's very close to my heart because I was down there and I watch our police and our firemen down on 7-Eleven

down the World Trade Center right after it came down. 7-Eleven? How do you mess up the date of an event named after the date? You just have to remember three numbers. Like I wonder what happens when he has an emergency. Hello police, it's an emergency. What's 7-Eleven? Oh, I dialed 7-1-1.

Well, as long as I have you, let me get a slurpy and a wrinkly hot dog, please. Honestly, Trump is so bad with 9-11. It feels like at some point in his presidency he's gonna mix it up completely with a different holiday and like I wouldn't be shocked if he shows up to ground zero in a Halloween costume, right? Although knowing Trump he just roll with it. He'd be like I'm wishing everyone a spooktacular 9-11 Look what I'm saying is all things considered. I understand this tweet from today might have pissed of some people, but it's not really that bad in fact. It's probably tru-I tr. tr. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. tha's tha's th. th. th. thi thi. thi. th. th. th. to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to th. th. the the the the the the the the the the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the the the the to the to to the to tru. to the tru. toe toe toe toe toe to to to to to to to to to to to to the the the the the from today might have pissed off some people, but it's not really that bad. In fact, it's probably Trump's best 9-11 observance yet. And if you don't think so, you're a hater and a loser. We'll be right back.

to thrown. this election cycle has already been quite a ride. Scared, nauseous, wishing this thing had seatbelts, Pod Save America is here to help. I'm John Lovett and each week, me and my co-hosts, John Favre, Tommy Vitor, and Dan Fyper break down the political news that makes you laugh, cry, and scream into the void to help you figure out what matters and what each of us can do about it.

Pod Save America on your favorite podcast platform now. Welcome back to the Daily Show. The midterms are exactly eight weeks from today. That's right, we are just one dog pregnancy away people. And you take care of those little puppies, okay? You take care of them. No, what are you doing? Think about the puppies. Anyway, there's a lot at stake. Democrats need 23 seats to win back the House of Representatives

and retake some power in Washington. So this weekend, they turned on the Barack signal, and he answered the call. He's back. President Obama returns the campaign trail for the first time in 2018. He chooses Orange County as his first stop, proof of just how important the O.C. is for Democrats this year. We have the chance to flip the House of Representatives and make sure the wheel checks and balances in Washington. We're going to kick off our bedroom slippers. We're putting on our marching shoes. We are going to go up. And we're going to start taking some clipboards at.

You know everyone's been missing Obama when even a clipboard gets a huge chair. Everyone's like, yeah, he's got office supplies. It holds all the paper and the band. But I do get why they were pumped, though. This was Obama's first time campaigning with 2018 midterm candidates. But why did he start in Orange County, California? Well, Michael Costler is here to explain in our continuing midterms coverage of Democulips

2018. So, Michael Costa, you've been following this race really closely. This race and all the races. You name a race and I'm the expert. That's why everyone around the office calls me the racist. That's not why they call you that, Michael. So let's talk about the California's 48th Congressional District, aka the O.C. The district has voted Republican for a long time, but in 2016 they flipped and went for Hillary. So the Democrats' hopes are up, like when you download Tinder.

But they could be in for a huge letdown, like when you use Tinder. Well, Michael, for Democrats, I guess it does depend on the strength of their candidates. Actually, Trevor, for Democrats it depends on the strength of their candidate. Harley Ruda. Now, Ruda's got an impressive resume. Not only is he the top Google result for a white dad's stock photo, but he's also been a successful lawyer and businessman. So, Ruda is running as a Democrat now, but didn't he used to be a Republican?

Yeah, well, so what? People can change. Okay, you know, look at me. I used to be a Milf Hunter. Now, I know his name sounds like he owns a thriving pretzel company, but he doesn't. The point is Democrats want anyone who can beat the incumbent Dana Roarbacher. Now, I know his name sounds like he owns a thriving pretzel company, but he doesn't. Here's his deal. He's a conservative to the core.

He's voted with Trump 84% of the time, and he wrote the speeches that Reagan would read. Sorry, Trevor, let me explain. American presidents used to read. What makes Roarbacher interesting is that Orange County isn't the only place he's been representing all this time. Orange County Congressman, Dane Rorabacher, dubbed Putin's favorite congressman for his pro-Russia politics. When the Russians went in and took over Crimea, it was he who gave a sort of qualified defense of

that. And when the Russians were fighting the Georgians, he was on the Russian side. He's always, he's always with the Russians. Behind closed doors, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy joked, quote, there's two people I think Putin pays, Rohrbacker and Trump. Mr. Putin is demonized by a lot of people here. And when he's ever watching out for Russia's self-interest, Putin has a right to watch out for the interests of the people there, just as the way we do in the United States. Wow, we finally found the one American who rooted against Rocky.

And Trevor, this isn't just a geopolitical relationship. It's gotten geophysical. Listen to this. Some say that Vladimir Putin rules with an iron fist. Well, California Congressman Dana Warbacher found that out literally when he arm-wrestled the Russian leader back in the early 90s. He's a little guy, and but boy, I'll tell you. He put me down in a millisecond. He is tough. You know, his muscles are just unbelievable. Of course Putin's muscles are unbelievable.

He's Russian. There's a 75% chance he was doping. Michael, this is kind of bizarre, man. I mean, you would think Rorbaqa's open love for Putin could hurt him in the campaign. Yeah, well, right now Ruda and Rorbacker are neck and neck in the polls, which means if Rorbacher loses, Putin will lose his top congressman, and then he'll have to settle for only having the president. Michael Costa, everybody, we'll be right back.

Thank you. Thank you. Welcome to the Daily Show. My guest to- is a critically acclaimed musician whose new album is called Be the Cowboy. Please welcome, Mitzky! Welcome to the show. Thank you for having me. Was that sign language for I like your shirt? Yes, she has my shirt on. Like your personal shirt or a shirt of yours? Like I don't know what that means. I'm sorry, my merch shirt.

Oh, okay, okay, so you got fans, you got fans in the audience wearing the shirts. Because I just saw you walk out and you were like, you t the show. Congratulations on a new album. I am dying to find out, like, what is the message you're trying to get out with be the cowboy? What are you trying to get people to do? Well, when I say cowboy, I don't mean like the working cowboy of today. I literally mean like the cowboy myth, like the Marlboro commercial cowboy, where there's like a white man leaning on a fence and squinting or like Clint Eastwood, you know, riding into town like that kind of cowboy. There's such an arrogance and a freedom to it. That is so appealing to me especially because I'm an Asian woman and I think I walk into a room and feel like I have to apologize for existing, you know, and I just sort of I was so

Attracted to that idea of freedom and arrogance and not having to apologize. So this album I think it's protagonist is someone like me, right? Who feels like they want to channel or embody that energy of a cowboy. Would you say that growing up for yourself culturally is Asian culture the furthest thing from cowboyness? Is that like the complete opposites? Yeah, I would say so. Like you'd like kick in the doors and then you'd be like, sorry about that? Yeah, I mean, I think the cowboy, the idea of the cowboy is so the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the thee the the the thee the thee the the thee the thee the the that that that that that that that that that that that that thii that that that that that that that that that that that to to to to to to toch toe toe toe toe toe toe toe toe toe toe toe toe the the the the the thiiii thi thi thi thi thi the thi thi thi thi thi the thi the the the the the the the the the the the the that? Yeah I mean I think the cowboy the idea of the cowboy is so American because the idea of a man riding into town wrecking shit and then walking out like

he's the hero. That's just the way life should be lived. That is the way life I like that. Be the way life should be lived. That is the way life, I like that. Be the Cowboy. I want to be the Cowboy. That sounds like fun. Yeah, have a good day. Be the Cowboy. Yeah, I want to be the cowboy in life.

This album is one where you feel like you've dug into the depths of your soul, which is what you always do when you're writing your songs and your music. You've mentioned the loneliness that you've encountered when touring on the road, you know, like you, you traveled alone for a long time. Did you ever think of like bringing up, like just adding a backup triangle player just to have a guest or somebody? Well, the thing, the lonely thing about tours is, it's not personal or individual loneliness because you're always surrounded by people on tour, but there's a sort of structural, societal loneliness because you're always in a different time zone, you're far away from everyone you know.

Your work is so different from everyone else's, none of your friends can really relate to your experiences. So little by little, you kind of become more and more solitary. I think that's the kind of loneliness I'm talking about or I experience on tour. It's interesting because many of the songs when you listen to them you'll be like, oh that's that's about a love interest, that's someone in your life, but but it's not though, it's about the music, you're about, thia, th.. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. that's, that's, that's, that's, th. th. th. th. that's that's, that's, thin, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's th. I I I's th. I's th. I's th. I's thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. that's th. thee. th. that's that's that's the. I's th. I's though. It's about the music you're writing love songs about music Yeah, I do that a lot where it's just I think music is just my closest relationship. It's been my only friend sometimes growing up because I grew up moving around I didn't know anybody but I would you know play music or sing music to myself

and I don't know it's like my family and so a lot of my songs are just about how much I love music. Or, you know, it's kind of hard being a musician. So sometimes when I sing about being spurned by a lover, it's actually the feeling of being spurned by music or my career in music and how it's just not going well. When you, when you write the music, you put a lot of effort into it, and yet I, you know, I always, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I always, I always, I always, I always, I always, I always, I always, I always, I always, I always, I always, I always, I always, I always, I always, I always, I always, I always,the music, you put a lot of effort into it and yet I, you know, I always read these reviews about you where people make it sound like you just have these diary entries and then you sing them to a tune, you know, it makes it like they'll write about you like, oh yeah, what Mitzki does is she just has a day and then she sings about, dear diary, you know? But you actually work these ideas out.

You try and craft, you know, a story that you weave through the album. Do you wish there was a way that people would know that you're doing that? Or do you like the fact that some people feel like it's just free-flowing and easy going. Yeah, I go back and forth. Because on one hand, I would like like like like like like the the the the their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their the listener to get whatever they need to out of a song. So if they need to imagine me writing in my diary, then I guess that's healthy.

But the thing is, it's so gendered, you know. I don't think I would get as many critiques where people say my music is confessional or raw if I wasn't who I am. And I think there's so much effort in like taking away my authority or autonomy over my own music because it's coming out of my own brain and I have control over my own brain. For some reason, people really need to imagine me as some sort of vessel or vessel for emotion or like vehicle for music instead of the creator.

That's interesting. When you write for others though, which is something you've started doing, you write for others, which is something you've started doing thrown, you're on a song, you're on a different journey though because you know, you've written for yourself, but I've noticed that you started writing for other artists? Do you write for them, thinking of them, or do you write a song and then go, this song could be sung by somebody else. Is it more liberating or do you find it more constricting? I think it's liberating.

I've been enjoying it just because sometimes I write songs that I feel like I can't serve with my own voice or with my own persona, I just couldn't live up to it. And so writing for other people, I feel like I can channel all these different maybe personalities in me that maybe I can't even express very well, but someone else can express for me. Right. Yeah, so I've been really enjoying writing for other people. Oh, because I'm starting a band, Trevor and the Ebola's, and we should talk, we should talk after this. We should talk about the band name. I work really hard on that. And now I feel judged. Thank you so much for being on the show.

I'm looking forward to your performance. Be the Cowboy is available now. The Daily Show with Cover Noa, Ears Edition. Watch the Daily Show weeknights at 11, 10 Central on Comedy Central and the Comedy Central Act. Watch full episodes and videos at the Daily Show. to follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, and subscribe to the Daily Show on YouTube for exclusive content and more. This has been a comedy central podcast. This election cycle has already been quite a ride.

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