The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Trump Threatens Third Term, Admin Admits Deportation Mistake

Episode Date: April 2, 2025

Michael Kosta breaks down the Trump administration’s disregard for the Constitution: Trump’s plan for a third term that even Republicans think is an April Fools joke, omitting due process on ICE deportations, and a mistaken deportation to El Salvador that can’t be undone. Plus, Josh Johnson lays out the difference between Kid Rock's tattoos and deportation tattoos. Charlamagne Tha God has had enough of Chuck Schumer and Gavin Newsom's stale brands of politics and calls on the struggling Democratic Party to rebrand and match the energy of people like Cory Booker and Jasmine Crockett. Gianna Toboni, an Emmy-winning journalist, joins Michael Kosta to share findings from her new book, “The Volunteer: The Failure of the Death Penalty in America and One Inmate’s Quest to Die With Dignity.” They discuss why the system is failing Americans, the complexities around lethal injections and pharmaceutical companies, and why the death penalty affects more parties than just convicted inmates.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You're listening to Comedy Central. From the most trusted journalists at Comedy Central, it's America's only source for news. This is The Daily Show. I'm Michael Kosta. We've got so much to talk about tonight. Your tattoo might ruin your life. Cory Booker won't show up, won't shut up in a good way. And Donald Trump pledges to respect the Constitution.

April Fools, he still doesn't care. Let's get into it. -♪ I'm in a coma. I'm in a coma. -♪ The second Trump administration is off to a roaring start if you don't count the economy, inflation, rampant corruption, cyberbullying of ally nations,

and we're all gonna die of measles. So it makes sense that on Sunday, he said he's considering running for a third term. But of course, the liberal media is freaking out. New fallout after President Trump did not rule out the possibility of a third term. A move that would require breaching the two-term limit

outlined in the Constitution. Caroline, what method would the president use to potentially run for a third term? Look, you guys continue to ask the president this question about a third term, and then he answers honestly and candidly with a smile, and then everybody here melts down about his answer. Yeah, right.

Oh, right. Obviously, this is the media's fault, okay? If they ask the president a question, of course he's gonna give you a deranged answer. He's the president. What do you expect him to say? No, I'm constitutionally barred from running again. Come on. The guy's just having a good time.

His fellow Republicans know nobody gets comedy like the Republicans. Don't you think he's probably trolling? I think he's probably having some fun with it, probably messing with it. This is a president who loves to give a snake in a can to the media just to watch them open it and he's doing that.

This is another jump scare that has just lit up the internet. Yeah, guys, relax. The president of the most powerful nation in the world is just, he's in his Dennis the Menace phase. The point is everybody knows he's joking. Trump isn't serious about a potential third term. Trump insisted he was serious about a potential third term. Trump said, I'm not joking.

I'm not joking. No, no, that can mean anything. That can mean anything. Look, the truth is, Trump doesn't really joke so much as he jokes, right? The same way that guys joke to their wives about having a threesome. Ha-ha.

You know, that would be so wild. Obviously, we'd never do that. I mean, definitely not with my coworker Cindy that you said was pretty once. And I'm sure she's open to stuff because her nose is pierced. That would be so hilarious, right? Or would it be sexy? Personally, I'm not freaking out that Trump

is going to defy the Constitution because he's already been doing it. For weeks now, ICE has been rounding up any immigrant who they suspect is a member of the Venezuelan gang Trendy Argua, or as Trump pronounces it... Trendy Argua. Or as Trump pronounces it, Trendy Argua. Very good, Mr. President. But this week, we found out that instead of sending

these suspects to a trial or hearing, you know, all the due process shit in the constitution, the ICE agents just fill out a checklist on the suspect. And if the suspect scores an eight or more, they get deported to an El Salvadorian prison. Look, look, I'm not a legal expert, but I'd rather not be sentenced to life in a foreign prison with the same checklist system that Cosmo uses to decide if I'm good girl hot or bad girl hot. By the way, I'm bad girl hot. Woo!

And reading through the checklist doesn't make me feel any better either. You get points just for having a tattoo of a star or a clock or the Michael Jordan logo. It doesn't even have to be a tattoo. You can just get points for wearing a Bulls jersey. So have fun in prison, Hannah Montana. If that's even your real name. But, hey, I'm sure the famously detail-oriented Trump administration isn't going to deport people

without making sure they're hardened criminals right right right. The Trump administration now admitting that a Maryland father from El Salvador was mistakenly deported to a super prison government lawyers just confirmed that the man who was granted protected status in 2019 was deported due to, quote, an administrative error. -"Oopsie-doopsie, I did a poopsie." Could it be that the geniuses who added Jeffrey Goldberg to the strike team group chat aren't great at identifying the correct people?

If only there is a way that they could have presented this suspect before another person, someone who, I don't know, and I'm just spitballing, maybe could have judged whether or not the person could have been deported. Maybe that person, I don't know, could be behind a tall desk, and they hold a stick and with a robe, and they're federally appointed, and they say things like,

Another DUI, Mr. Costa? I'd put you in prison, but you're too bad girl hot. No, no, no, no, no. Let's just do another checklist. Thank you for that. But hey, but hey, but hey, no harm, no foul. We can just get that guy back on the next flight, right? Right? Right?

But here's the thing. The administration argues he can't be brought back because now he's in El Salvador's custody. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. What are you talking about? We can't get one person out of a prison that we sent to that prison? JD Vance is out there calling dibs on rare earth minerals

underneath Greenland and Ukraine, but with El Salvador, suddenly they're like, hey, sorry, no hablo español. Trump, don't you speak Spanish? Trendy, arguay. Tremendioso. Seeing all these constitutional crises pile up, it makes me wonder what sort of evil machinations

Donald Trump is plotting inside the Oval Office right now. A friend of mine, Kid Rock, sometimes referred to as Bob. I know him as Bob, but he's been a good friend for a long time, many years, and he's been after something that is for the good of a lot of people. Uh, Mr. President, I don't mean to alarm you,

but the guy next to you, he's scoring a lot of points on that checklist right now. Um... For more on the ICE raids, let's go to the White House with our very own Josh Johnson. Josh. Josh. Josh, what Trump is doing right now is disturbing.

That's absolutely right, Michael. And we can't stand for this. The American people need to get out in the streets right now and let Donald Trump know that this is a nation of rules and laws, and the American people will not allow him to hang out in the Oval Office with Kid Rock. Oh. I thought that speech was going to be about the mass deportations. No, no, at this point I'm sort of resigned to that.

But if he's gonna be a dictator, can he at least be a serious one? When the history books get written about the fall of American democracy, I just don't wanna look like a bitch, okay? If I'm gonna get my nipples tasered off and in an El Salvadorian prison, it can't be by a guy who looks like

Ronald McDonald's lesbian aunt, all right? That's not how I wanna go out. Okay, I don't think the ice raids are coming for you, Josh. You don't know that. You saw that checklist, they're looking for Jordans. Tattoos. Sound like anybody you know, Michael? Oh, wait. You have tattoos? Yep.

I got a couple of nasty ones. Oh, really? Well, can we see them? Well, I can't show you all of them because a few are near and on my butthole. But... LAUGHTER But here's one I'm worried about, okay?

Mmm. Who knows how ICE could interpret this tattoo? What does that say? Fight song. From the song Fight Song. It could be conceived as a threat, you know, fight song. Why did you get that tattoo? Cause it's not just an anthem for white women, all right?

Everybody's got a fight song and fight song is my fight song. Take back my life song. Prove I'm all right song. Josh, Josh, Josh, Josh, Josh, Josh, stop, stop, stop, stop. Yeah, you're not even ready. Imagine if we were fighting right now. Okay, I just don't think ICE is going to confuse that for a gang tattoo. It's not gay.

I said, I said gang, not gay. Oh, not gay. Oh, well good. You know, show you my butt hole tattoo, then we'll see who's gay. Wait a second, what does that even mean? It means if my fight song tattoo doesn't get me, this one definitely will. It's a firework.

They're gonna think I'm a domestic terrorist over here. Blow this whole thing up. Kill everybody. Body pieces everywhere. Let me guess. It's actually from Katy Perry's song, Firework. Yeah, it's pretty much my backup fight song. It reminds me that, baby, I'm a firework. And I got to show them what?

Okay, we get it, we get it, we get it. Josh Johnson, everyone. When we come back, Charlamagne the God will give us his opinion, so don't go away. Josh Johnson. Welcome back to the Dairy Show. We all know that I've got great opinions, but I'm not the only one. Studies show that other people also have opinions. So here with another installment of In My Opinion is our good friend Charlamagne the God. -♪ The God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the God, the a marathon speech on the Senate floor to protest what he calls reckless actions by the Trump administration.

Booker began his speech around seven o'clock last night. I rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able. New Jersey Senator Cory Booker is still talking on the Senate floor. His marathon speech has now reached the 22-hour mark. This is unbelievable!

Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! A Democrat actually doing something! Wow! Wow! That's the longest someone's held Congress captive since January 6th. I mean, yeah. I mean, so far, he's only talking, but he's talking a lot, so I'll take it, okay? What Booker did today is like the political version

of phone sex. It's not as good as the real thing, but it's a hell of a lot better than nothing. That's right. And nothing is what it seems like the Democratic Party has been doing for the last three months. The Democrats are like Jason Momoa in between Aquaman movies.

Not in good shape. Disarray among the Dems, new CNN polling showing the party's favorability hitting a record low of 29%. 29%? That's lower than Pete Hexf's blood alcohol level. Democrats are about as popular as an album of RFK Junior covering Adele. I set fire to my brain.

Isn't there anyone who can save this party? NBC News is reporting that the Bidens want back in. Isn't there anybody else who can save this party? Look, I know there are some people that think Joe Biden should help rebuild because as the most recent president, he is the de facto leader of the party. And to those people, I'd like to say, Hunter, lay off the crack, OK?

I thought Biden was an OK president. It's not his fault his brain reached his term limit before he did. But he's not the future of the party. So who's supposed to be the leader as well? In Congress you've got two people. The first one is this guy, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffress. In America, we don't have a king, we don't have a monarch, we don't have a dictator. In our democracy, we have separate and co-equal branches of government. Yeah, I'm not feeling too inspired by business. I'm not too inspired by business casual Morpheus, okay? You take the blue pill, nothing changes. You take the red pill, nothing changes, but

with cherry flavor. And Payless Obama's counterpart in the Senate? Eh, he's somehow even less inspiring. It's gonna affect beer, okay? Most of it, corona here, comes from Mexico. It's gonna affect your guac, because what is guacamole made of? Avocados. Schumer is not the man with a plan to fight Trump.

Shit, he ain't the man with a plan to fight Trump. Shit, he ain't the man with a plan for a good Cinco de Mayo. It's not my job to say that any particular candidates need to be primaried and thrown out of office, but Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer need to be primaried and thrown out of office. Yeah. So, yeah.

Maybe Democratic leaders in Congress ain't it. What if we look outside of Washington to the governors? Gavin Newsom from California. He's been getting active lately. What's his fight plan? We need to change the conversation. And that's why I'm launching a new podcast. And this is going to be anything but the ordinary politician podcast.

I don't believe you. Your body doesn't even believe the words you're saying. None of your words match your motion. Like Gavin just feels phony. All right? Feels less like you're going to lead a revolution and more like you're going to sell me pills for natural male enhancement.

Fortunately, there are people on the left really willing to put up a fight, though. The Republicans have actually organized this boogie hearing to try to convince the American people that PBS and NPR are, quote, domestic threats. It's as stupid as it sounds. I would tell him to grow a spine

and stop being Putin's hoe. If you could speak directly to Elon Musk, what would you say? F*** off. That's right. That's right. That was the homie Jasmine Crockett, a U.S. representative and social justice warrior with less filter than a Paul Maul. Okay?

She did get into a little trouble for some recent comments about the Texas governor, Greg Abbott, and to appreciate this next clip, all you need to know is he's a far-right bigot who happens to use a wheelchair. We in these hot-ass Texas streets, honey. Um... Y'all know we got Governor Hot Wheels down there.

Come on, now. And the only thing hot about him is that he is a hot ass mess. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, man, when they go low, Jasmine slashes the tires on their wheelchairs, OK?

And you know Republicans are scared of Democrats stooping to their level because conservatives were big fake, man. Jasmine Crockett stoops to a new low. Pretty disgusting. Speaker Johnson saying this, quote, these outrageous remarks by Crockett are shameful and completely out of line.

She's a low life. And she's a very low IQ person. Excuse me? Donald Trump is going to lecture someone about tasteless jokes? MAGA complaining that a Democrat is ableist is like Quentin Tarantino telling me, I used the N-word too much. Nigga, please." Okay?

I'm not saying Democrats need to be offensive like Trump is. Just show any kind of authenticity and fight. All right? That's why people are cheering Cory Booker today. Yeah. Yeah. And that's why Bernie Sanders and AOC are turning out huge crowds at rallies all across the country. Yes. I just hope it's enough, because right now, and AOC are turning out huge crowds at rallies all across the country.

Yes. I just hope it's enough, because right now, the Democratic Party brand is so wack, it almost doesn't matter who runs. A D beside their name makes even great candidates seem bad. Voters are like a college student, halfway through her first year at Bryn Mawr. She just doesn't want that D no mo, okay?

Democrats just need to fight back. And whether that looks like filibustering on the Senate floor, rattling across the country, or getting in a roast battle with a wheelchair-bound senior citizen, you gotta take that fight. But that's just my opinion. Show of the Year, the God, everybody. When we come back, Gianna Tavoni will be joining me on the show. Let's go ahead.

Let's go. Welcome back to the show. My guest tonight is an Emmy-winning journalist whose new book is called The Volunteer, the failure of the death penalty in America and one inmate's quest to die with dignity. Please welcome Gianna Tabboni. -♪ What is it that I want? What is it that I want?

-♪ -♪ What is it that I want? What is it that I want? I'm going to be the judge. I'm going to be the judge. I'm going to be the judge. I'm going to be the judge. I'm going to be the judge. I'm going to be the judge. I'm going to be the judge. I'm going to be the judge. I'm going to be the judge.

I'm going to be the judge. I'm going to be the judge. I'm going to be the judge. I'm going to be the judge. I'm going to be the judge. I wrote a book on it. Uh... Next question. No, no, no. Look, it's a fundamentally broken system. First, and you don't usually hear these arguments, right? We usually lead with the moral arguments in media, but I took a different approach.

Of the 2,000 death row inmates that we have in our country on the state level, right, different from the Luigi Mangione federal death row, only 15% are getting executed, right? The 49.9%, those cases are overturned, right? And then you have cases that are commuted. You have people dying of old age on death row. So a 15% completion rate, I mean, think about that in any other industry, right?

Like a surgeon completes 15% of surgeries, right? A contractor completes 15% of, it's totally unacceptable. I'm about right for contractors, but. No, but That is a terrible rate of efficacy and it kind of leads to The subject of this book and why you reached out to him Scott Dozier who was convicted of murdering two people Why did you initially write him a letter to be the subject of this? So I was making a documentary for a show called Vice on HBO

and I needed an interview with a death row inmate. Yeah. I wasn't trying to do anything beyond that one interview. Wrote him a letter, didn't know if I'd hear back, and then I got a call. You know, Ely, Nevada. I was like, OK, this is him. Right.

And we started chatting. You know, and from the first few minutes of that conversation, I understood that this guy was different for one He was completely unsympathetic. He was a violent offender as you said he was convicted of two murders, but he was also Volunteering for execution right right only 10% of inmates volunteer for execution What does that mean so he wrote the judge a letter and he said let's get this over with but they're already sentenced to death a Lot of these states don't carry out these sentences. Right. Right? So the attorney general's office

has to pursue that. And the judge has to sign a warrant, and then they schedule the execution. And then the prison chief has to find the drugs or the method that they're going to use to execute this guy. And he actually said, and you have the letter, his handwriting, it's very moving.

He says, I, Scott Dozier, am requesting to execute me. Yes. And at one point, I think he even calls the government a bunch of pussies. Yes. Yeah. He didn't mince words. If you're going to sentence me this way, then do it. Yes. It's hard not to sympathize with him a little bit in that regard. Talk about some of the complexities

of actually killing someone on death row when it comes to the drugs and the method. So, I mean, in the past, we had kind of simple, but very gruesome methods, right? Like burning, boiling, you know, guillotine, hanging, electric chair. And then we sort of kind of sanitized the death penalty in part to get the public on board with it, right?

Public approval ratings just died right and so we legalized lethal injection and the idea was that we would make it more humane what we've learned is that it is not more humane that's what a lot of expert witnesses anesthesiologists have have told us about this method not to mention you have to source all these drugs right turns out drug companies like Pfizer don't want their drugs used in executions, right? They want to create the cancer cure or the next big vaccine.

They don't want to be known as supplying the death drug. So it's been incredibly hard for states to source these drugs. Is Pfizer not wanting to give drugs for lethal injection because, well, yeah, they don't want to be associated with executions, but also it could affect their profit margin for giving more people the drugs that actually need them. I mean, there's, I guess, a sourcing issue in the sense that, you know, if these drugs

are used for execution and you pull them off the market in order to get prisons not to use them. So sodium thiopentol, this is a drug that was used in executions for years. When drug companies really don't want them used, sometimes they pull them from the market. And then patients who actually need the drugs won't get access to them. This is gonna be a strange metaphor,

but it reminds me of dog food for my dog. We make it so it's palatable for me as the human. I don't think my dog wants to eat this little, like, brown pellet. He wants to eat sloppy, messy, disgusting food that his DNA is telling him. But we've made execution palatable for me and you and us, but it isn't effective. And wasn't at one point Scott Dozier saying, shoot me?

Yeah. I mean, his ideal way... He'll be with a gun. Exactly. Where Americans are good at that. Yeah, yeah. And by the way, finding a cowboy, a gun, and a bullet, all things that are not hard to come by in America. And certainly the gun lobbies aren't going to say,

you better not use that for an execution. Yeah, and there's never a shortage of volunteers. Right? Yeah, I still talked about that. You mentioned that in the book. That's wild. Yeah, I mean, you have the former warden of Florida State Prison who oversaw a bunch of executions.

He said that he would get letters, thousands of letters, people saying, hey, if you need a volunteer to do the firing squad or to partake in the execution, I'm here. I mean, I don't even have thousands of Instagram followers. We can work on that. Yeah. And there was just an execution by firing squad in South Carolina.

So are more inmates volunteering? I mean, you said it's about 10% that do this? Yeah, so not volunteering. But what they're doing is they recognize that lethal injection is not a more humane method or doesn't cause less suffering. In fact, it can cause more suffering. Yeah, you know inmates understand that now and so now they're actually opting

for methods like firing squad right so lethal injection has a 7% rate of botched executions firing squad that rate is effectively 0. I mean it is wild to think of and one of the things I love about the book is I'm thinking and debating a very serious topic that I try to avoid. I don't want to think about this stuff. A firing squad, they put a bag over the person's head.

They put a target on his heart. And five people have guns. And I mean, it's like, in a way, maybe, and I think this was made in one of the vice pieces at point in a way maybe we should make it more brutal so we as citizens can decide do we really want to do this. I mean look execution is brutal you know right killing our own is brutal yeah and the way we've whitewashed you know this method of execution yeah it's all kind of ridiculous yeah you know and firing squad I think that if we went back to

that method, yeah, I think the public may start to second guess what their tolerance is for killing their own. There's so many people affected when an execution needs to take place and that's one thing that the book just illuminated to me so much there's the prison that has to try to do this thing. They're required to do it. There's the victims' families who are involved. There's the inmate who, at one point, you know,

you say to him, you're going to be dead tomorrow in two hours. You're going to be dead. And he has to respond to that. And then there's also the family of the death row inmate. Who is suffering the most in this? You've really been close. Who's suffering most in this shit show that is our death penalty?

Look, I think a lot of people are. I sympathize deeply with victims' families. I mean, those murders are so horrific and create generational trauma. The perpetrators' families, they didn't do anything wrong, and they're dragged through this mess all the time. I would say the one subsect of people that we don't focus on that much are the people

actually doing the executing. And a lot of these people, they're not bad people. It doesn't suggest that they're pro-death. I mean, this is their job, right? And I talked to the warden, as I mentioned, at Florida State Prison, and that guy, I mean, he really botched a bad execution by electric chair.

I mean, effectively burned this person alive. He became an alcoholic. And he had these nightmares. I mean, he had total PTSD, where he described that each night he would go to sleep, and the inmates that he had executed would walk into his room, and they would sit at the foot of his bed, and they would just stare at him.

And they didn't have to say anything anything because he knew what they were thinking. And then though, there's a nice part to that is his wife basically made him go to therapy and it helped him. So good job to all the wives making their husbands go to therapy out there. Is there a way we can reform this system? Is there a positive that we can take from this in your opinion? I mean, this book is not anti-death penalty. It's not pro-death penalty, right?

This is a deep investigation into a broken system. I really believe... You say on page five, which I love, which is we're not here to debate the morality of the death penalty, but we are here that we can all agree that it's a broken system. Yes, yeah. What I want people to take away is, look, if we are gonna have this practice carried out

in our name and on our dime, right? Hundreds of thousands of dollars, millions of dollars per death sentence, right? Way more expensive than life without parole. Well, that's what I wanted, yeah, we're going to, go ahead, continue. Then I think we need to face what we're actually doing. I don't think we should sleep at night thinking that these guys are just peacefully falling

asleep on a gurney and that's the end of the story. And if we're okay with these brutal executions, then okay, we live in a democracy, vote for the death penalty for all I care. But at least face what we're doing and understand that a lot of the time, we're not actually doing the executing. Right? We're just putting people on death row, in many cases solitary confinement. understand that a lot of the time, we're not actually doing the executing. Yeah. Right? We're just putting people on death row.

In many cases, solitary confinement. We're paying exorbitant amounts for this death penalty without even carrying it out. I mean, the irony of at one point, they put him on suicide watch. So they don't want to watch him kill himself. So then they can kill him later, even though they're too soft to even kill him in the first place. It's too wild. It's wild.

It's wild, yeah. Thank you for writing this. It's a tremendous book. The Volunteer is available now. Gianna Ciavoni, we're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back after this. Thank you very much. Thank you.

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