The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Trump’s Shock Nominations, Charlamagne’s Plea, and Coppola’s Vision

Episode Date: November 15, 2024

Jordan Klepper unpacks Trump’s latest bombshell cabinet picks, RFK Jr. and Matt Gaetz, while Desi Lydic reveals the Democrats’ blunt new response strategy. Charlamagne Tha God shares his cautious optimism for the next four years and issues a heartfelt plea to Trump to protect the Constitution. Legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola joins to discuss his ambitious film Megalopolis, exploring themes of risk, freedom, and his enduring optimism for humanity’s future.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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This is The Daily Show with your host, Jordan Klepper. Welcome to the Daily Show. I'm Jordan Klepper. We got so much to talk about tonight. RFK Jr. is now your primary care doctor. Matt Gaetz is taking the DOJ to prom. And Charlamagne the God does a wellness check on democracy. So let's get into another installment of Trump 2.0 coming for the White House. -♪ I'm gonna come.

Thank you. -♪ -♪ Whoo-hoo! Thoroughly dislike hearing that. You've been feeling under the weather since the election. Don't worry. Pretty soon, everyone else will be sick, too. President-elect Trump on Truth Social just made it official. He wrote, quote, I am thrilled to announce Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the United States

Secretary of Health and Human Services. Yay! Unpasteurized whale juice for everybody! Wow! This is exciting news. We are making things in America again, specifically patient zeros. Of course, with Trump, there's never just one horrifying thing

to focus on. Today, the fallout continued over Trump's pick for attorney general, Matt Gaetz, House Republican and guy who's had more needles in his face than pinhead. Now, yesterday, Trump selected Gaetz to lead the DOJ. And his future employees couldn't be happier. Multiple current and former senior officials

left speechless, calling it insane, unbelievable, sure employees couldn't be happier. Multiple current and former senior officials left speechless, calling it insane, unbelievable, and one saying he is the least qualified person ever nominated for a position in the Department of Justice. I think what I'm hearing is he has a lot of potential. Seriously, the least qualified ever. Keep in mind, that includes one of Trump's previous AGs who once starred in promotional videos for a toilet for well-endowed men. And yes, this was a real thing that happened during Trump's

first term. You don't remember it, which is okay, because if it's in any consolation, maybe someday we'll forget all this, too. But I'll tell you. I'll tell you who's not disappointed by this pick. I'll tell you who's not disappointed by this pick, Matt Gaetz, aka the guy who plays Bob's big boy in porn parodies. Gaetz is ready to go. In fact, as soon as he was nominated,

he immediately resigned from his house seat so he could get the ball rolling. He's just that eager to begin generally a turning. Unless, you know, there was, I don't know, some other reason he resigned so quickly. He's been under investigation by the House Ethics Committee over an allegation that he paid for sex with a 17-year-old.

His resignation from the House will effectively end that investigation with that report due to be out Friday. Wow. Wow. Wow, wow, wow. What a crafty legal maneuver by Matt Gaetz. He must be dating a girl who does mock trial. Now, call me old-fashioned, but it seems to me like a guy who was recently investigated by the Justice Department

isn't the best fit to lead the Justice Department. But maybe that's coastal elite talk. I assume congressional Republicans are excited for one of their own to be elevated to such a lofty position. Let's hear them gloat to reporters. I tried to talk to a lot of Republican senators tonight about Matt Gaetz being nominated to the post,

and they made clear they were not ready to engage. I'm having trouble. What about Matt Gaetz? I'll get it. You support him? We have a confirmation process. I don't know yet. I'll think about that one. Do you think Matt Gaetz is confirmable? We'll find out.

Senator Kennedy, what do you think of Matt Gaetz as Attorney General? Happy Thanksgiving. Oh. Laughter. Applause. Happy Thanksgiving. Matt Gaetz has nothing to do with Thanksgiving, besides him and the turkeys both needing pardons, of course. I would say, I like this strategy for avoiding the press, though. Sir, do you have regrets about the internment camps? Happy Arbor Day! And if you're wondering,

why does Matt Gaetz's own party hate him so much, the answer would actually take some time. It's not just the underage sex allegation. It's also that he routinely attacks other Republicans. He doesn't do any work himself, and his personal quest to overthrow Speaker Kevin McCarthy so divided his party, a fellow Republican had to be restrained by the mouth from fighting him on the House floor.

It was the first time in history Congress had to call a face mask penalty. And Gates hasn't just been instigating coups against his own leaders. Even his social skills gave his fellow Republicans the ick. Take it from Republican Mark Wayne Mullen. We had all seen the videos he was showing on the House floor that all of us had walked away

of the girls that he had slept with. He'd brag about how he would crush ED medicine and chase it with an energy drink so he could go all night. Oh! First of all, I'm not sure Matt Gaetz knows how to brag. You're... You're going around telling coworkers that you're free-basing Viagra?

And you know I had to use an extra-small condom, bro. Yeah! Hit me up top. Also, also, yeah. Super tiny. Yeah, bro. Oh, I could barely get it off. Yeah! Also, for the love of God, who drinks energy drinks? Pound some coffee like an adult sexual predator, man.

Clearly, the Justice Department is about to get a hardcore bro makeover. I mean, once Gates is in power, you're gonna get to plead guilty, not guilty, and the f*** your problem, man. More importantly, there's not a single thing we've seen from Matt Gaetz's career or character that would make him fit to be the attorney general

of the United States. Luckily, all it will take to stop him is for his own colleagues, who legitimately hate him, to show the slightest bit of spine. What say you, Mark Wayne Mullin? Are you gonna vote for Matt Gaetz? I completely trust President Trump's, um, uh, decision-making on this one.

I don't get it. Do you hate Matt Gaetz or not, Mark Wayne? You can't have it both ways, unlike your mom did when she couldn't decide whether to name you Mark or Wayne. Come on! Come on! I on! Come on! Come on!

There you have it, folks. The Republican submission to Donald Trump in a nutshell. Matt Gaetz is a creep who forced me to watch his sex tapes, and yes, I will be voting for him. Happy Thanksgiving. For more on the Congressional reaction to the Matt Gaetz nomination, we go live to the Capitol with Desi Lydic. Desi Lydic.

Desi! Desi. Now, we've heard from Republicans, but what's the Democratic strategy for Matt Gaetz? Well, Jordan, I spoke to Democrats, and their strategy is to vote for him unanimously. Wait, Dem... Democrats will vote for him?

Yeah. It's part of a new strategy that they call, and I quote, "'Fuck around and find out.'" Yeah. See, if Donald Trump wants a coat clown as A.G., Donald Trump gets a coat clown as A.G. Have fun watching his press conferences where he shows a video of him Eiffel Towering some chick. Uh, do you need me to explain that to you, Jordan?

No, no, no. I get it. Is that really how the Dems are gonna respond to the A.G.? Well, not just the A.G., the entire Trump presidency, RFK at the health department, No, no, no. I get it. Is that really how the Dems are gonna respond to the AG? Well, not just the AG, the entire Trump presidency. RFK at the health department, Fox News guy as defense secretary, Democrats are not gonna try to clean up the magma messes anymore. You know, you wanna be bad and smoke a cigarette?

Well, guess what? Now you gotta smoke the whole carton. Good news, according to RFK's new health guidelines, it's healthier than vaccines. Okay. I understand that impulse, but isn't that gonna just be bad for the voters? Well, I asked Nancy Pelosi that,

and she said, oh, the voters. How did the voters vote again last Tuesday? Oh, I got a recount right here. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Turns out she didn't have the recount. It was just her middle finger. Right, right. I guess Democrats have a right to be upset, but aren't they at least a little concerned that Gates could weaponize the judiciary to go after them? Yeah. See, I asked Nancy Pelosi about that, too,

and she said, Oh, yeah, I'm so scared of legal mastermind Matt Gates coming after me. I can't wait to see his indictment written in crayon. Here's my response. And then you can imagine my surprise when she just pulled out her middle finger. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. It seems like she only has that one move. Yeah, it's a decent move. So, their attitude towards Republicans is basically, you made your bed, now you get to lie in it. Yeah, exactly. But with Matt Gaetz, you might want to change his sheets first.

Desi Lajnik, everybody. We come back. Charlamagne the God will be joining us. Don't go away. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! 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, you'll be saying to yourself, TGIT. 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 gonna 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 Jon Stewart, wherever you get your podcasts. MUSIC CHEERING CHEERING Welcome back to The Daily Show.

We all know 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 Char Charlamagne Lega. ["In My Opinion," by Charlamagne Lega plays and audience cheers.] Hey, look, I'm not gonna bullshit you. Right now, I'm confused.

Yeah, more confused in America after finding out John Krasinski won Sexiest Man Alive. Yeah. He wasn't even one sexiest man alive. He wasn't even the sexiest man on the office. Y'all let Kevin hit. And what's confusing me is that for three years, up until last Tuesday, if you asked any Democrat what they thought about Donald Trump, they say something like this.

Donald Trump said he would be a dictator on day one. No one has ever been more dangerous to this country than Donald Trump. Trump is fascist to the core. I want to be a dictator running around trying to punish his enemies. Take what is prob—look at what his objective is. It is totally un-democratic. He says that he wants to be a dictator on day one. He means it. Damn.

Joe Biden was on such high alert, he almost opened his eyes for a second there. So the part that's confusing me is, if all that is true, what the hell is this? It was an encounter many thought could never happen. But in front of a roaring fire, the current and future president exhibited warmth. Who knew the fall of democracy would seem so cozy? It's like seeing Hitler take over Europe in a Snuggie. That's not how you beef. Trust me, Drake isn't inviting Kendrick to a slumber party anytime soon.

When you get in a room with someone, even JD Vance called Hitler, you don't say I have your back. You say, I have a Glock. And look, look, look, look, look, I understand that you have to transfer power peacefully because you're not fascist. But there's nothing in the Constitution that says you have to be nice about it. At least take the opportunity to f*** with him, all right?

Swap his diet coke with kombucha. Change the computer passwords to Eric's birthday so he can't log in. Switch the toilet paper in the Oval Office toilet so it hangs under. I don't know, man. Do something. OK? And look, just because I don't want Democrats singing

Kumbaya with Trump doesn't mean I think they should go all in on trying to take him down. First of all, they already tried that a lot. OK, I don't have the energy for it anymore. Dude got impeached twice. I still get PTSD when someone says the words, Mueller report. But also, and this is an unpopular opinion if you're not a Republican, I want Trump to succeed.

Or at least I don't want him to fail so badly he takes down the country with him. Yeah. Yeah. Come on. Come on. Okay? I love America. We got Waffle Houses here, all right? And there's still a chance that Donald Trump and his friends

won't turn the country into a fascist funhouse. You know who says they won't? Donald Trump and his friends. Donald Trump is not going to rule as a dictator. He's not a dictator. He's not a threat to democracy. He's fun. He's not a fascist. Was Hitler making self-deprecating jokes?

No. They accused me of being a Hitler-type guy or a Hitler lover, and I'm not. I'm the opposite. ... ... Opposite of Hitler. I don't know what that means

unless it's his weird way of telling us he's circumcised. So listen, both sides had their campaign rhetoric. Trump came out on top. And in a few years, we're going to find out who was right and who was wrong. I'm a person who's called him a fascist. I want to be wrong. And maybe we all will be because don't forget, one thing Trump loves more than anything is being unpredictable. He loves it more than he loves his children.

Okay, bad example. He loves it more than KFC. And now he has a chance to do something truly unexpected. Don't be a fascist. And maybe you think that's not possible, but you know me, I'm an optimist. I think if I can just talk to Donald Trump directly, I can convince him.

So let me try. Mr. Trump, sir. Mr. Trump, sir, you're a manly man with great hair and the tightest neck pussy I've ever seen. Yeah. He's listening now. Sir, I need to talk to you about your plans. Right now, you can do anything you want. You have both houses of Congress, and thanks to talk to you about your plans. Right now you can do anything you want.

You have both houses of Congress and thanks to the Supreme Court, you can feed Nancy Pelosi to alligators and call it an official act. But that's what all your enemies say you're going to do. And just think about how stupid they'll look if you don't. You know what liberals hate even more than being thrown into a CIA black site? Being wrong. You could own the Libs so hard just by not being a fascist. Not being a fascist is so easy.

Look, I'm doing it right now. By the way, I'm still doing it. It's simple. Okay? You don't even have to do good things for America. Just do nothing. Go golfing. All right?

That's right. You love golfing, and you're so good at it, too. We all know he cheats. You know what, Mr. President? We'll even let you have a little personal corruption as a reward, okay? Just leave the Constitution in one piece, and we'll let you skim a billion or two out of the Medicare budget.

It's fine, okay? You could literally sit on your ass doing nothing for four years straight, and you'll be considered the greatest president of all time just because you didn't destroy democracy like they said you would. Yes! just because you didn't destroy democracy like they said you would. Yes. F***.

And listen, Mr. President, if you just destroy the economy, lead us into a recession, I can live with that. That's normal Republican president stuff. Just keep your big, strong, not tiny hands out of the fasc fastest cookie jar. And maybe, maybe I still think you're gonna do it anyway, but to quote the great philosopher Sabrina Carpenter,

please, please, please don't prove I'm right. But that's just my opinion. -♪ -♪ -"Shuffle Me to God," everybody. We come back, Francis Ford, 12th of November, joining us on the show. Don't go away. Thursday, we're gonna be talking about the election, earnings calls. What are they talking about on these earnings calls?

We're gonna be talking about ingredient to bread ratio on sandwiches. I know you have a lot of options as far as podcasts go, but how many of them come out on Thursday? Listen to The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart wherever you get your podcasts. wherever you get your podcasts. Thank you so much. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Uh, this... Sir, this truly is an honor. I will say, uh, I remember in college going to see Apocalypse Now. I got to see it in the theater. It was being re-released. I saw it in the theater. And it expanded my mind as to what I could

and should expect from cinema. It was surreal, it was dark, it was literary. And then last week, I get to go and see Megalopolis. And it continued on that trajectory, expanding what one should expect or can expect and see in cinema. Because you didn't say the last thing you said, Apocalypse Now, was all those things that got terrible reviews. I didn't want to last thing you said, Apocalypse Now was all those things

that got terrible reviews. I didn't want to say it, you know. And we've done it again. This is what it is. Applause Court the bastards, right? Well, you know, I mean, they want movies to be something

that they cannot risk, they cannot possibly lose on. And to me, you know, making art without risk is like making babies without sex. It's possible, but it's not the way to do it. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. You're not wrong. This film deals with a lot.

This film, there's big themes in here. Time, Rome, ancient Rome, the fall of America. You've been working on this or been thinking about this idea for 40 years? Well, I, yeah, not exactly, but I was working on something that I thought could be my style because, you know, I made a lot of films that I'm happy you enjoyed, but they were all in different styles, and I wondered if I had a style, or basically it was going to be different for every movie.

So I took... After I made a John Grisham movie called I think it was The Rainmaker, I took 10 years off, turns out I took 14 years off, and I just wanted to learn more, you know, what I could do, and I kept notebooks. And eventually I decided that since America founded itself based on Rome because they didn't want a king,

Rome invented a new form of government called the Republic because they had had a terrible king, and they absolutely did not want a king. And America didn't want the English king. And the people who founded America were all, you know, educated people, which meant they spoke Latin. They studied Latin. They studied the Roman.

And they had read Caesar and the Gaelic Wars and Cicero. So they decided to make a country with senators and with Roman law. We all know what pro bono means and habeas corpus. That's because we took Roman law. And what happened to Rome when it lost its republic was a lot of money came into Rome. But instead of going to the people,

it basically made the senators rich and powerful. And the same thing happened in America recently after World War II. So with exactly the same situation, the same result happened, and we got a new government, which may very well not continue the republic. We don't know. We're about to find out. We're about to get the news.

Yeah. I mean, if Megalopolis follows this once great city in decline, do you know who the attorney general is in Megalopolis? Has that been decided? Well, I'm sure he's someone who is going to... If he's not attorney general, he's going to be arrested by the attorney general. Yes.

So that's probably what's gonna happen. Part of this, you also self-financed this film by selling off some of your wine making. But the same is with Apocalypse Now. Apocalypse Now I ended up, you know, you know, you know who owns Apocalypse Now by the way now? No. I do. You know why? Why? Nobody wanted it.

And if you can imagine interest during the time of Apocalypse Now was 21%. That's not a joke. It's true. Is that right? Yeah. And so, but now it's not so much, so it's better. You sell off part of your winery, though, to pay for this project. I basically, I didn't, I borrowed the money from the bank based on a winery that I had. Yeah. So now I have to pay it back in a year. Is that advice you would give to a young

filmmaker is first start in the wine business to get your finances all settled? My advice to a young filmmaker would be make the film any way you can and you know whatever way, rake it with your iPhone, make it with your parents credit card but try to make it be personal because movies, you know everyone in the world, all of our cousins because we're all related in one big family as you know, I mean really. Is that right? Oh yeah. I haven't seen any cut of the winemaking business from you though.

I feel like, are we a little bit more, I mean you do, yeah. We're cousins. Okay, so yeah, you don't pay off. You don't pay off. You can't help me with my tuition. Yeah, and we've only existed for about 300,000 years and we know only, since there's writing

has only been six, 7,000 years, we only know what happened the last ten thousand years and that's when the men really took over and we had for the first time a patriarchy. Before that we don't know what we had, it might have been better, but we have no way we can guess. And if it was a matriarchy, the thing that's different between a matriarchy and a patriarchy is that the women didn't really give orders, but they were good colleagues. And we worked together and we ensured that there was enough water for the kids and there was this and that.

Women are very, very good leaders. They really... I know. I know. Perhaps the country can look into giving one a shot in the near future. Who knows? Well, one day, one day, I'm sure. I mean, we all, you know, I try to see the bright side of everything because I'm like your previous host. I'm an optimistic.

I truly am. I love people, and I want the world to be beautiful for our children because they didn't do anything to deserve the mess that they might... Isn't that the truth? Isn't that the truth? There's a lot of hope in Megalopolis.

There is. The film is filled with hope and the ending is very positive. And I stand by the ending. The ending, you know, really what it comes down to is that we are capable of solving any problem that was put in front of us. We, we, there's no, there's no, you know, we're intelligent, but you know, there's no creature on earth anywhere even close to what we can do. And the octopuses are very smart and they're very nice.

But the human being is extraordinary. And the fact is that why do people constantly try to make you feel less than you are? And that's because you're a better customer if you don't feel too powerful. If, you know, we spend probably $8 trillion a year on advertising, which is basically selling a little bit of happiness to people in the form of what they can buy. But you can't sell happiness to happy people

because they're already happy. So what that means, what that means is there are efforts to make us be less happy than is necessary. So we'll be better customers. And if you tell people, hey, you know, human beings are geniuses, we're all a family of geniuses, they'll say, well, yeah, but we are, but those people are not. So let's let them in our country. Let's treat them terribly. And the truth of the matter is that that's not true, that we're being kept deliberately felt to be less

than we are so we can be better sold to. And that's what's happening. I mean, I do think... I'm hearing you. I mean, the media landscape does treat us as consumers and consumers only. I think what is compelling about some of what you're trying to do in Megalopolis is to break open some of the mold. Well, to explain what's going on,

because even what you said isn't true anymore. It used to be... What? Yes, it's not true. Did it just change? Yes. It just got worse. Because what they're doing is it used

to be that you sold by what the product was. Now you're selling the identity. If you look at television today, and you look at the way it's styled and the way they're dressed and who they're married to, you're meant to say, hey, those are people like us. And so they're selling an identity, and then by you buying the identity that they've sold you, they want you to be loyal to the brand

that that identity is loyal to. And that's, when they to. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. And that's... When they start selling who you are, then you know that it's gone too far. Yeah, yeah. I agree with that. Where my cynicism comes in... My cynicism comes in as if this is all a war for attention, whether it's on social media, whether it's the Internet,

or just media in general, I feel like the quickest way to get those eyes is with short, loud bursts of anger and flash. And what it does is it warps the way in which we take in information, hold information, and communicate in general. I think like I feel myself being unable

to hold long conversations or depth of thought is harder and harder to reach because of these mediums that we're in. You work in a medium, cinema, that'll ask people to sit and think about something for two hours. But they don't ask that anymore. Now they ask you to go to see something that you already know what you're going to see because you've seen six versions of it already.

And therefore, they want you to be addicted to it the way they want you to be addicted to a particular food product or something. In other words, they don't want there to be any chance that they won't make money. But how do you back... That's what they are doing. But what are you doing? How do you create in that atmosphere?

Because I feel like your audience, no matter what, is going to walk into that theater or watch it at home. There's a line in my movie that he says, But what are you doing? How do you create in that atmosphere? Because I feel like your audience, no matter what, is going to walk into that theater or watch it at home. Well, there's a line in my movie that he says, when you leap into the unknown, you prove you are free. So I leap into the unknown whenever I can because I want to be free.

Because I don't even wear the same socks anymore. What do we got? I got two different colored socks. You got two different colored socks? Yeah, I don't have to wear the same colored socks that I don't want to. This man. And neither do you. And Drake's rules consistently.

Pegalopolis is in select theaters and available to stream now. Francis Ford, Popeye. We'll take a quick break. We'll be right back after the break. consistently. Binglelopolis is in select theaters and available to stream now. Francis Ford, call for it. We'll take a quick break. Be right back after your break. -♪ -♪

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