The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Trump Whines He’s “Unappreciated” & Self-Soothes with Ballroom and Third-Term Talk | Zohran Mamdani
Episode Date: October 28, 2025After Trump echoes a complaint that he's unappreciated by Americans for his "sacrifices," Jon Stewart looks at all the things the president has accomplished without getting proper recognition, like go...ing against protocol to tear down the East Wing of the White House for an ostentatious ballroom, or blowing up Venezuelan boats without due process. Jon also takes a look at the Republicans properly eating s**t for the president and determines that a third term is the only appropriate show of gratitude for this poor little billionaire. New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani sits down with Jon Stewart to discuss building a campaign on delivering politics that “aspire for more than what you’re living through,” ensuring his tax plans aren’t just popular but precedented, taking safety beyond the NYPD to job and housing security, reaching the hearts of young voters with inviting rhetoric, and whether the days of endorsements deciding elections have come to an end. To get simple, online access to personalized, affordable care for ED, Hair Loss, Weight Loss, and more, visit http://hims.com/dailyshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Later on, we'll be talking to New York City mayoral candidate.
Zorn Mamdani will be doing.
We will be doing.
We will be discussing his plans
to turn the city into a communist hellscape
where crime is legal
and subway rats receive universal basic income.
I haven't had a chance to read the platform.
I'm just assuming.
But first, our current president, Donald
Josephine Trump is currently on a tour of Asia
where he will be meeting with allies,
such as the new Japanese prime minister,
and rivals such as Xi Jinping.
It's a crucial moment with huge ramifications
for the current tariff regime in this country
and for the peace and security
of the entire region itself.
But first stop, Kuwala Lempore.
So let's dance, motherfucker.
He loves this shit.
He loves this shit.
I love at the end, he was like, ah, ah, eh, and then he just goes like, eh.
That's all I got.
He loves the red carpet.
He loves the hats.
None of it makes any...
They're playing the theme song
to Hawaii 5-0.
None of it made any sense.
But he loves the pomp.
He loves the circumstance.
It's why he loves going overseas.
That's what they give him overseas.
Ladies and gentlemen, it's...
It's what he loves.
Look what we do to him here.
This is what he tweeted
right before leaving on the trip.
I want to thank Donald Trump for working like a dog
for no money
to save a country
that doesn't appreciate his sacrifice.
I hope you're happy, America.
Look at this poor son of a bitch.
It just wants
he just wants to save his country
and all he asked for in return
is a little bit of total unquestioning fealty
and a few billion dollars in influence money
and new forms of currency
this poor bastard
hey buddy
Want to go to Malaysia?
Yeah, there we go.
Come on.
But what do we do when he comes home?
Beef is too expensive.
My health care bankrupted me.
Where's my abuela?
Poor little billionaire president.
He hates it here.
why wouldn't he?
Everything he does for us.
We have a problem with.
What's the one thing that we've wanted in this country?
For as long as I can remember, an outsized ballroom.
I have been talking about this.
Someday I'll grow up and do the cha-cha.
Remember the march when we all wore the chandelier hats?
no crown molding no peace
when I say crystal you say stemware
crystal
crystal
I can't believe how well that works
we didn't
we don't rehearse any of that
how easily
fascism comes to America
chant with me so we've always wanted a giant ballroom and then as soon as the man surprises us
by completely demolishing the east wing of the white house after announcing that he would not
touch it at all suddenly everybody's got a problem the new construction plans haven't been
filed with the national capital planning commission for public input
or to have review by professionals
who actually work in this field.
Well, maybe you'd like to file an appeal with
the thing's already not here anymore, board.
You know, the man is just trying to give Americans
a $300 million dollar space
that we can use four to six times a year.
And you're all worried if it's the right shade
of historic federal gray from faculty.
arrow and ball.
It's like we don't even want to be happy.
And then, as if that's not bad enough,
after Trump builds us a double the White House
next to the White House,
we won't even offer him the simplest of thanks.
We act like he's in it for himself.
ABC News now reporting,
Trump will likely name the ballroom after himself.
how dare you sir at long last have you no decency what makes you think this selfless man
look at him what makes you think this selfless man is so arrogant as to want his name
over whatever he makes.
You bastards.
You know, if George Washington had known
there would come a day
when an American president would be so disrespected
that he couldn't even build a ballroom
without filing plans first,
would he even have crossed the Delaware?
Or might he have said,
Forget the whole thing, me, boys!
I don't know his accent.
Forget the whole thing, me, boys!
And don't just say, oh, the White House,
but it's a historic building and a symbol for the country,
and it means a lot to a lot of people.
We have been nagging this man
since he selflessly decided
not to host a sequel to The Apprentice
and lead our great nation.
And these are the complaints just from the last
few weeks. The president igniting a firestorm. President Trump facing new questions
about his latest pardon. Tension rising on President Trump's plan to send the military
to American cities. Tensions rising as the shutdown is dragging on. Cattle ranchers
across the country are blasting President Trump. Cattle ranchers? How dare you? He's
personally keeping you in business. We
We are taking the joy out of this thing.
And then, as sad as he gets, when he goes to blow off a little steam by blowing up some boats.
If you want to engage in a war with Venezuela, you need to come to Congress for an authorization.
There being none, these strikes are unconstitutional and unlawful.
Nag, nag, nag, nag.
Which one of you murdered those people without due process?
due process. Oh, was it you? You get detention. You see what you've done. You're killing the
guy. You treat me so unfairly. It's hate. You have a lot of hate in your heart. You know nothing
about nothing. You have fake news. You should be ashamed of yourself. Quiet. You're really
obnoxious. One of the worst reporters that you'll ever say. I don't know to take a question.
You're a third-rate reporter always have been. Frankly, you're a terrible reporter.
You know it and so do I. Who is that back there? I get out of the room.
Our constant complaining
is turning him into the worst version of himself.
He doesn't want to be this person.
Everyone knows a healthy relationship
is a relationship where one person gets to do whatever they want
whenever they want, even if some of that shit's illegal.
And the other person
has to eat it
just eat it
if you don't want to eat it
at the very least
just pretend like you don't see it
like Speaker Mike Johnson
how comfortable are you with the president
apparently seeking $230 million
from the Department of Justice
I don't know the details about that
I've just read it I didn't talk
with him about that
see
how hard is that
uh
I'm used to
dumb.
And by the way, anyone can pull that
off when they're first asked. A real pro
can pull it off when they're asked the exact same
thing the next day. You said yesterday
you were still trying to get the details of this
$230 million the president has asked
with justice to want to pay for his legal bills. Now that you've had
some time I'll have to get the details. Are you okay
with taxpayers potentially being on the hook for that kind of money?
I'm not trying to dodge a question I haven't had time to get the details okay that's still on my list things to do list
He's got a big list of things to do list and uh he's got a big list of things to do he's got the covering up in the epstein files and um well i guess that's the only thing on the list but still there's a lot of
papers in that file. It's pro-level ignorance support. But if you want a relationship to work,
you've got to put in that kind of effort every day. You've got to show up for that person.
Every day. Mike Johnson does. I don't know anything about the meme coin thing. I don't know.
That's first I've heard of that. I don't know anything about it. I've never seen the Epstein
evidence. I haven't seen the specifics of that. I don't know the details. I just saw a headline
this morning. I haven't seen it. I can't comment on it up a little busy today. Look, I don't
know anything about the dinner. I was a little busy this past week. I don't know anything about it yet.
been really busy do you support those comments or not i don't know what eric was saying because i
only heard just a snippet there i don't know the context you just saw it sir
what did i did i see it i haven't had a chance to see myself seeing it but seeing myself seeing it
is on my list of things not to i'm very busy we've got a lot of work to do america
Because if we're going to hold on to this man for the rest of our natural lives,
it's going to be hard.
Lucky for us, even after everything, he's still open to making it work.
Sir, Steve Bannon said in a recent interview that there could be plans for you to be able to run and potentially win a current term in 2028.
Is that something you'd be, well, like the challenge of the fourth?
I haven't really thought about it.
Yes!
He's doing it!
I haven't thought about it.
That's the tell for whenever he's asked about something
that he is definitely going to do
that is dubious, legally, ethically, or morally.
He says he hasn't thought about it.
But, of course, we know he's thought about it
because he already has the merch.
Yeah. Now, of course, the negative Nellies are going to have issues. They'll say presidents cannot
serve more than two terms due to the 22nd Amendment. You recall that Congress ratified it after
FDR served four terms and caused irreparable harm to this country by inventing the podcast.
But what's...
he's actually worked through the various scenarios
of running for a third term
he has not thought about.
One theory on how you might try to serve a third term
is that you could run as the vice president.
Yeah, I'd be allowed to do that.
You'd be allowed to do that, but I wouldn't want.
I would do it.
I think it's too cute.
Yeah, I would rule that out because it's too cute.
I think the people wouldn't like that.
It's too cute.
Too cute?
That's why you don't go to build a bear as an adult.
running as the vice president
to skirt the 22nd Amendment isn't cute
but he's the kind of guy who's like
I respect Americans too much to play games
if I'm going to run again
I'm going to rip off the Constitution's head
and shit down its neck
and truth is
indications are very clear he's going to do it
because you don't move into a house
knock down a wing
and build a 90,000 square foot ballroom
for the next guy.
Trump's not a house flipper.
He's not Ellen.
He's in it for the long haul.
But the question then becomes why?
We've already let him down so badly.
America's clearly not his happy place.
So maybe there's a solution that could work for everybody.
I'd like to propose it.
Let's make Donald Trump our overseas president in 28.
We could give him all the pomp and all the adoration.
He could be America's touring company,
taking our great show anywhere, but here.
He can dance in Malaysia.
He could hold orbs with the Saudis.
He could pretend to enjoy literature with the King of England.
And when he's done, we'll put him back on the plane.
and have everyone ask him questions.
And we'll do it all again.
I'd like that.
Would you like that, Donnie?
He likes it!
When we come back, Zora and Donnie will be joining us.
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We're back to the show. My guest tonight, he represents Queens in the New York State Assembly,
and he is the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City. Please welcome to the show,
Zoran Mamdani.
They're very nice.
This is it.
These are the people you would like to represent.
The New York City people.
I'm curious about that.
You know, I had spoken with you months
ago and I felt a real love
that you had for New York City
now that you've gotten to know us
still there? Still love it.
Really? Still love this too. All of it.
All of it. All of it. All of it.
What do you got now? You got three
days, four days? Is that?
We've got about eight days left. Eight days
left. And what is that
in that moment, do you
have to keep, what do you think you need
to do to close the deal
to keep this.
You are clearly right now in the front-running position.
I can tell because they've gone 9-11 on you.
So that's clearly a sign of...
A closing argument.
A closing argument.
The 9-11!
So what do you feel like you've got to do
to close the deal with New York citizens?
You know, it is in many ways the same thing that got us here,
which is canvassing.
Oh, really?
You know, for all of the focus on rallies,
on commercials, on debates.
It really comes back to people
speaking to other New Yorkers
about the city that we all love.
We have 90,000 volunteers right now.
On your campaign.
On your campaign.
90,000.
And it's 90,000 people
who are picking up the phone,
phone banking someone that they don't know.
90,000 people who have knocked on a door
of a New Yorker they've never met.
90,000 people who just wait for 15 seconds.
No, listen.
And then hope that someone will open that door.
What do you knowkers love more than anything?
It's strangers coming to the door.
Yes. Yes.
Or calling them.
You know, I think this is the thing is that for people that we're often characterized as being rude,
I will tell you that New Yorkers have been so kind in the experiences they've had with our volunteers
because what they're speaking to is another New Yorker.
Right.
And it's an understanding that politics is not something you have.
It's something that you do.
and in this moment where politics has become
just another word for division
for not just Republicans but also Democrats
these New Yorkers are ones who've understood
that you never hate someone more than before you know them
and knocking on that door having that conversation
doesn't just win the election for us
it also starts to build the city that we want to leave
what's the kind of feedback that you get from your
volunteers in the field and what about
for you canvassing because I have to tell you one of the most
I thought shrewdest
campaign moves, and this was in the primary, not in the general, is when you walked from
the top of Manhattan all the way down to the bottom and just, and met people, you've got to be
very confident in yourself to do that, because New Yorkers will generally tell you what they
think when they see you. And even when they are telling you something that's technically
supportive, it sounds like you're being heckled.
That is what we do.
Yeah, I was on Nostronab a few days ago,
and this woman just pulled up in her car,
she was like, I'm voting for you.
I was like, I don't, thank you.
It just sounded like I was about to get my ass whipped,
but it was by my voter.
Right.
It was a good experience.
And New Yorkers, by the way,
no one will be as mad at you
if it doesn't go right as the people who love you now.
Have you felt,
that as well. You know, it's often framed as a burden or as an obligation. Right. But frankly,
I think it's an opportunity. It's an opportunity to actually show that this whole campaign
where we've talked about freezing the rent, making buses faster, free delivering, universal
child care. These are not just slogans. Right. These are commitments. And when we deliver them
here in New York City, it will be also the delivery of a politics that can actually aspire for more
than what you're living through. And for so many people across the city, politics has just become
synonymous with an argument of celebrate the little you have or lose that.
Right.
And it can't be that.
Zero sum.
It can't be.
Do you have a Mamdani hierarchy of needs?
You know, I lived in this city for a very long time.
And I can tell you livability is if you can run this place, you will earn a great deal of leeway to do all kinds of innovative things.
but if people feel disorder
man you won't be at a do
and I've lived through the eras of New York
where it was disorder
and it does make it
people feel it I mean looks
public safety is the prerequisite
for an affordability agenda
job one right people have to be safe
and we also know that safety
is something that you not only deliver
with the NYPD it's also something
that you deliver by ensuring that they're actually
jobs that can pay people enough to stay in the city.
All of these things are integrated.
Tell me that last part again.
Today, I was taking the one train downtown
with a reporter from ABC, and we were having a conversation,
and we walk on the train, and there's a homeless man sleeping on the train.
Was he with the Cuomo campaign?
No, it was not.
But my...
That's just bad humor.
Bad humor.
But my point is that we get on the train
and we see this, and this is an illustration of the fact
there are about 4,300 New Yorkers who are homeless
between our subway platforms, our parks, our streets.
There's almost the same number
of vacant supportive housing units
that are built for those very kinds of New Yorkers
experiencing homelessness.
They're vacant.
And so I tell this to you as an example,
it's not all going to be about a fight for funding
or a fight for, you know, transforming city government
in the ways that are only big,
it's also the ways that are small,
the efficiency of the bureaucracy.
Because that is an example to New Yorkers
that we have a city government that's complacent
with the fact that one in four New Yorkers
are living in poverty in the wealthiest city in the country.
That's unacceptable.
And it's interesting how much New Yorkers judge
the quality of life in New York City
from the quality of life under New York City.
I can remember the subways, you know, in the battle,
days. I'm going to tell you a story. But when I first moved here in the more chaotic days,
back when, you know, I was a purveyor of, I guess you would call them, recreational park vendors,
we would buy from their, let's say, cart.
So don't tell me this after January 1st.
No, no, no.
But it was the city, I was young then, and I didn't mind it, but when I got a family, it was a very different.
And the city that I embraced for its chaos as a younger man, I don't think I would have, as an older person.
Does that quality of life issue?
Because that's not just Manhattan.
That's everywhere.
And I think it's a frustration of mine that we've allowed the word.
quality of life to become seen as if they're bywords for the Republican Party.
They should be at the heart of any progressive politics. If you care about working people,
you have to deliver an excellent quality of life for those people.
Man, oh man, is that, and I got to tell you, it always freaks me out when progressives
don't push for people in communities that have less money to serve the same security and quality
of life that people in on Fifth Avenue deserve. And I think we've forgotten that. And I think
it's you just think about the incentives in city government right now right you have a trash can
in new york city that's overflowing city government's response is often removed the trash can
not increased trash collection of the trash can right this is now i didn't know we had trash cans that
weren't overflowing i thought i thought that new york city bought them filled yeah just permanently
at the top i assumed it was just some sort of illusion you buy a house for your cat that's just for the
rats to have somewhere to climb.
But I think this is, in a city where we're saying we don't have enough money to take care of
those who have the least, we have enough money to pay McKinsey to design that trash can.
That's the city we're living.
It's not about money, it's about Will.
And what I love hearing about this is one of the things that's been so frustrating in our
politics is so much of it has been defined over these last 10 years as the negative case
against someone.
And finally, and I think this is not blowing smoke, I think you've made an affirmative case for people.
I think the enthusiasm that they have for you is because you've made an affirmative case that's not about protecting something that's going to be lost or a bad man that's over there.
It's about an idea that you have.
And it surprised me that the democratic establishment did not embrace that energy.
Is that something that has bothered you, is getting better?
I mean, Hakeem Jeffries, with a brave, brave endorsement, I thought, 24 hours ago.
What's that been like for you?
You know, I think it's interesting in many ways because our politics and the media that
covers it is often focused on the question of endorsements.
And it's part of what gave Cuomo the sense of inevitability in the primary.
He just seemed to pick up all of these different endorsements.
And I think what we showed in many ways was that the days of endorsements deciding elections,
those days have come to an end.
It's the people that build up a campaign.
And, you know, I appreciate having Congressman Jeffery's endorsement,
and I appreciate more than that, that when we've spoken,
it's been about how do we deliver for our shared constituents.
Right.
Because it's, you know, these are the same New Yorkers,
whether we're representing them in City Hall or in Albany or in D.C.
And like you said, we've been telling them time and again
that all we have to offer is not Trump.
But this is also the city that created Trump.
Right.
We have to reckon with that.
And when you think about...
Did you hear there was an audible gas?
This is the city that created Trump,
and everybody's like, oh my God, that's right!
Are we Dr. Frankenstein?
No!
Franken's...
No!
But it's...
You know, after the...
After the presidential election,
there were all of these obituaries written
about the Democratic Party's ability
to motivate young voters.
And there's just this condescension
in the language that we use about young people.
And I can just tell you
that what we found in this campaign
is that young people have been a thoughtful.
heart of believing that something could be more than this.
And I would say, you know, throughout the primary, this quote from Ed Koch, if you agree
with me on 9 out of 12 issues, both from me.
12 out of 12, see a psychiatrist.
Right.
And I'm in Washington Square Park.
I'm filming a video with David Hogg.
This young guy comes up and he goes, 12 out of 12, baby, send me away.
It took me a moment.
I was like, what are you talking?
And then today on that same one train, I meet a guy who's like, yeah, man, I'm so hyped about the corporate tax being the same level as New Jersey.
And I'm like, you look at the fluency that people have with what it is that we're talking about.
And it comes from the fact that we're talking to young people like we would talk to anyone.
You're not patronizing.
We're not patronizing.
We're not, like, you know, hanging a shiny little thing and saying, please come follow it.
And those are the people, look, that is a natural constituency.
You're a young man, you know, you've got an energy.
you're you're that that's a natural constituency you've also though been trying to connect with
those that see you as more of a caricature i've watched you try and uh open a dialogue with
certain people that are really concerned some of them in good faith some of them in bad faith
about are you experienced enough to handle the city's a bear for even uh you know the best
manager there are real issues what's been your experience meeting and reaching out
with those that look at you existentially, because we live in a culture now, you're either
a savior or the death of us all.
So what's it like reaching out to that other group?
You know, I don't begrudge New Yorkers who are skeptical because they've also lived through
tens of millions of dollars of commercials telling them to fear me.
You know, they have lived through waking up every morning and seeing a photo of me and just
feeling like, oh my God, because the language that's written around me is as if I'm a threat
to the city that they love.
And so when I meet with them, just the mere fact that I don't strangle them within 30 seconds is often a surprise.
So you're doing well based on the low bar, that's been sad.
And then I think it's an opportunity where, you know, I both can tell them the things that I will do and the things that I won't do, right?
I will freeze the rent.
I won't defund the police.
I will make buses fast and free.
I won't decriminalize misdemeanors.
I will deliver universal child care.
I won't require everyone to eat halal food.
This is, this is, this sounds like a punchline.
This is literally...
You just made news.
This is literally in a pushpole to New Yorkers
saying that I'm going to make halal mandatory.
And it's like, if you do want to eat halal,
like go to 34th Avenue and Seinway, go to Mahmoods,
but I'm not going to force you to go there.
You wouldn't force them,
but you would describe it in such delicious terms
that people would have a hard time.
They wanted chicken and rice.
There would only be one place.
Resisting that.
What about those who worry about feasibility?
Yeah.
Who say, and this is another thing,
because not just there's a character presented,
but we've also lived through decades of people
who promised idealism, who promised a lot of things,
and didn't either run the city well
or be able to deliver on that.
And those are not easy things to deliver.
You know, I'll give you an example.
You were talking about a couple of taxes
that you wanted to raise.
It was a millionaire's tax, and I think one other.
Corporate tax.
Kathy Hokel last night.
And you were talking about that.
And Kathy Hoke is on stage, and she goes, we'll see.
You know what? And you saw it like, she couldn't even, she was like, in the middle of it, she's like, I'm going to fight that, okay.
How are you going to deal with the reality when it meets, rubber meets the road when you get in there?
You know, we have seen that that reality is in many ways a result of the political coalition that you build.
Right.
The coalition you build can change that reality.
We changed it from October to now of last year.
We can keep changing it
because what we found is talking about raising taxes
on people who make a million dollars,
increasing it by just 2%,
increasing the state's corporate tax rate
to match that of the socialist utopia of New Jersey.
These are things that are not just broadly popular.
They also have precedents.
And most importantly, though, you're not looking to do them
in and of themselves.
You're looking to do them to fund an affordability agenda
that would transform quality of life
for every New Yorker.
And I think the question...
To make this city affordable.
I mean, I'll be honest with it.
You know, I moved up here again in the early.
Like, I can't remember a time this city was ever affordable.
Like, that truly would be.
I worry sometimes if you make it affordable,
if you make it nicer,
more people will want to come here.
Which is good.
And then the prices will go.
It's such a...
Do we just need...
You know, we talk about housing and all those different things.
Do we just need more land?
There's this park that I've been to in the middle of the city.
What an incredible opportunity.
Right?
But is what makes it so difficult here, just the density that you're dealing with?
Well, I think it's actually the absence of imagination more than the density.
Right.
We obviously have a finite amount of land.
But the ways in which we restrict ourselves from building on that same amount of land, right?
It means the Jersey City is building seven homes per thousand people.
Tokyo is building 10.
We're barely at four.
And that's not because of the lack of land.
That's also because we don't want to build enough around the little land that we have.
Right.
And, you know, I think it's, you were asking earlier about the feasibility, the experience.
Part of this is also not having an understanding of leadership that you, your own.
make every decision and you, yourself, are the person who must know every single thing.
You actually create a team around you, and they're not all going to be 34, right?
This is a team of people who...
Younger?
This is the retirement age.
It's Zohanam Dunning and the K-pop demon hunters.
They're going to go here and knock it up.
But even that, I have to tell you, and again, you know, I'm just, I'm impressed with, there's a certain humility to that.
that I don't think a lot of politicians come into the game with
to say, like, hey, man, I probably don't have all the answers.
And I'm going to be looking at some experienced hands
that I think might be able to help with that.
I think it's a part of youth, frankly.
I think youth gives you an innate sense of possibility
and a humility that you don't know everything.
And I think it's, you know, it's time to have people around you
that are not just characterized by the quickness
with which they say yes to every idea you put in front of it.
Right, right.
And I don't want to keep harping on it.
Are you sure you don't want to go with the Moore Land thing?
What if we just built?
You know, I know they do this sometimes in the Middle East.
They just build islands out of nothing.
Can't we connect Lower Manhattan to the Statue of Liberty
and then just throw up a couple of high rises?
I actually just want to take this moment.
That is the policy idea I came here tonight.
Perfect.
We need something in these last things.
Lastly, before you go, I want to, you know, we were talking earlier in a meeting about, you know, the interview that we're going to go.
And one of our writers, Devin, came up with something that I thought was really interesting about who the real MVP of your campaign is.
You really seemed to take hold when you were out at Madison Square Garden, outside of MSG, after basketball games, talking to people about how much your tickets, all those things.
Do you remember all those videos?
I do remember that.
Fantastic, right?
Thank you.
They really took hold because of how deep the Knicks went into the playoffs.
That's what it was.
So in many ways, isn't the MVP of your campaign?
James.
Mr. Jalen Brunson.
Isn't it Jalen Brunson?
Isn't that, sir, at long last?
I am glad you said Jeline Brunson.
I thought you were going to say James Dolan.
No.
I was not going there.
Jayland Brunson.
I'm glad he's not running for mayor.
Yes. I wish you all the best.
Honestly, I think any New Yorker who looks at someone getting an opportunity
who's representing communities that have not been as representative,
a Muslim, a young person, a progressive, a Democratic socialist,
you know, there are so many different communities that are looking to you
and this, I hate to put it on you, as a bit of a Jackie Robinson,
moment and i know that that that probably wields some weight but man oh man what an exciting
opportunity thank you and i wish you the doctor thank you very much we're going to do a quick break
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Ms. Desi Liding, Dezzi!
Nice to see him, my friend.
What do you got for the people this week?
Oh, well, John, big developments in last week's jewelry heist at the loo.
Police have arrested two people, and that is definitely all the thieves.
Case closed.
I mean, that seems like kind of a big heist for just two people.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
It couldn't be more than one two-person, tops, tops.
I think it's clear everyone can stop looking.
Desi, I can't help to notice.
You have a lot of new jewelry.
What?
This?
Oh, no, this is my nannas.
What did your nana do?
She robbed the Louvre.
Run, nana, run!
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