Trump Hits 100 Days & Canada Celebrates By Electing the Anti-Trump | Katherine Maher
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Welcome to the Daily Y'all. I'm George Clapper. We got so much to talk about because today is a big deal. It's the 100th day of Donald Jonestown Trump's second term. We're at cruising altitude, people. The seatbelt sign is off and the pilot is aiming straight for the mountainside. So, let's get right into it. There may be a little disturbance.

Yes, it has been a hundred days of Trump in the Oval Office. I mean that figuratively. Obviously, he spent lots of those days in the steam room at Mar-a-Lago. Picture it. I'll wait. Can you see him glistening? Picture it. Oh, yeah? Yeah? Oh, put it in your head. Put it in your head. Don't make me put up a picture. I'm doing it. Oh, yeah? Even hotter than your imagination, huh? What were we talking about?

Right. It's Trump's 100th day.

I think. Tuesday will mark President Trump's 100th day in office. President Trump's 100th day in office is coming up this Wednesday. Tuesday is going to mark President Trump's 100th day. Wednesday marks the 100th day. On Wednesday of this week. It's actually Tuesday. Wednesday, April 30th. Tuesday. Wednesday. If you count January 20th, his inauguration day as day one, then tomorrow is day 100. It's simple math. You just look at the calendar and count days. Oh my God!

This is how divided we've become under Trump. We can't even agree on how counting works. Apparently Wednesday is now a partisan issue. I mean, it's hard to think of a better metaphor for how the first 100 days have gone. But here's one. This morning, new questions about how a $70 million U.S. fighter jet fell off an aircraft carrier in the Red Sea, sinking to the bottom of the ocean. Oh, no, no, no.

America's doing great. We're doing great. Yeah, sure, some of our fighter jets are kamikaze-ing themselves instead of serving under the Hegseth regime, but things are fine. I will say, you know who this is good for? The Little Mermaid. You know? Think of how excited she was when she found a fork. Now she's got an F-18 fighter jet. Hegs, I got wings, baby! Woo!

You're part of my world now, bitch. So, yeah, bit of a shock. But the good news is the military says the plane can be salvaged. They just need to get it out and plop it into a really big bowl of rice. Good as new. Okay, so that was a bit awkward. And to put an even bigger damper on Trump's 100-day celebration, our neighbor to the north celebrated last night in a very disrespectful way. Taking on Trump and winning at the ballot box.

Last night, Canada's Prime Minister, Mark Carney, his Liberal Party winning re-election after a stunning turnaround. Voters were swayed by U.S. tariffs and comments from President Trump about making Canada the 51st state. I think who I voted for would be the best to take care of Trump because Trump is, I'm sorry to say, an asshole. What have we done? We've turned Canada's cutest nanas into foul-mouthed expletive machines.

And I know, I'm sorry to say he's an asshole doesn't sound bad to us, but in Canada, she's Cardi B. Cardi B.C., you know, British Columbia. But yes, thanks to Trump, the Liberal Party just pulled off a historic comeback, winning all the major Canadian demographics. Hockey moms, hockey dads, hockey non-binaries, hockey seniors, hockey hockey players, and of course, hot Ryans.

But the winner of all this anti-Trump energy was new Prime Minister Mark Carney. And his victory is all the more impressive when you see that he is not the most traditionally electric candidate. A system that, while not perfect, has helped deliver prosperity for a country for decades is over. We are over. We are over the shock of the American betrayal.

But we should never forget the lessons. But you're going to take us forward. We have to look out for ourselves. Wow. This lady was trying to be his hype man, and he's like, ma'am, please, this is a victory party. This is no place for excitement. Was Mark Carney doing that the whole campaign? What do we do? Fight! No, no, no, quiet down.

That was rhetorical. It's not what this is about. But look, let's step back for a minute, because here on the 100th day, it might be worth taking stock of where we are. Because right now, all the vibes are terrifying. Trump is overreaching, he's breaking rules, he's ignoring judges, he's collecting all the infinity stones, he convinced the Pope to do the eat a hot dog without chewing challenge. Rest in peace. You lost fair and square, Pope. Sorry.

But if there's one silver lining to this Dictatory 100 days, it's that when anyone pushes back, he folds like a Cybertruck in a fender bender. Like this. Look at what happened with his tariff policy. He's been hyping up tariffs for decades. It was the centerpiece of his campaign last year. The most beautiful word in the entire dictionary of words...

Here's the word. Tariff. I love tariff. Tariff's more beautiful than love. Let's put God number one. Let's put religion number two. And then it's tariff. Tariff. Tariff. Tariff. My favorite word. Tariff. Tariff! He says tariff like I'm trying to take a bone out of his mouth. Tariff! Tariff!

It took less than a week of market turmoil, and suddenly Trump was like, backsies. Tonight, the stunning about-face from President Trump. People were jumping a little bit out of line. They were getting yippy, you know? I mean, what kind of autocrat bails at yippy? Putin wasn't like, I was going to annex Crimea, but then they gave me the stink eye, so... Dasvidaniya.

And tariffs are just the most famous example. He's been backtracking all over the place. Just for example, he unfired federal workers he had fired. He put back DEI web pages he had taken down. He uncanceled student visas that he canceled. He unnominated the attorney general he already nominated and so on and so on and so on. At a certain point, you've got to ask, does Trump even want to be a dictator?

Because I've never heard a dictator call backseas this much. Say what you want about Hitler, which is a sentence I immediately regret saying. But the guy stuck to his guns. It's Mein Kampf, not Mein Bad. But maybe, maybe my favorite recent example is when he started suggesting he would illegally fire Fed Chairman Jerome Powell.

The Trump administration is looking at possible ways to fire Jerome Powell. The president blasted Powell, calling him a major loser and saying Powell's termination cannot come fast enough. All right, wow. Now, when I first saw that, I thought, here we go. Some dictator shit's about to go down. But then, same old story. The markets got spooked, and then so did Trump. You have no intention of firing Jerome Powell? You have any plans on doing that? None whatsoever. Never did.

Never did. I love Jerome. I did say he's a major loser, but in a friendly way. Hey, my loser. You know, no hard R. I mean, it's good that he backtracked, but it does make it a little awkward that he already called him an incompetent loser. It's like hearing someone say, that guy is the worst, dumbest moron I have ever had the displeasure of knowing. My days are darker and sadder in their presence. Anyways, I do.

Look, the point is this. The point is, the point is, Trump basically does the presidential version of posting a picture, then deleting it if it doesn't get enough likes. Which makes it all the more frustrating to see so many law firms and universities and companies bending the knee to Trump. They don't have to. Chances are, if you push back, he'll take it back. Either that, or he'll send you to El Salvador for a few years.

But then you get a selfie with Kristi Noem, so it's worth it. When we come back, Desi Lydic prepares for the Dogepocalypse. So go away.

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Welcome back to The Daily Show. We all know how uncomfortable it is to listen to Elon Musk, but how bad is it to get fired by him? Desi Lydic sat down with some people who found out. If there's one thing Americans know about, it's waste. In fact, 89% of Americans agree that our government is full of it.

So Donald Trump empowered Elon Musk to create the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, and go through our government with a fine-toothed chainsaw. The chainsaw for bureaucracy. To cut budgets and fire thousands of federal employees. We're cutting down the size of government. We have to. We're bloated, sloppy.

So I sat down with some of these fired bureaucrats to see if they felt any remorse for wasting taxpayer money. What would you say that you did for the government? Would it fall under waste, fraud, or abuse? So I was in charge of helping essentially keep American consumers from getting ripped off by financial companies. Okay, so...

All of the above or? None of the above. I worked for the National Institutes of Health as an education and outreach specialist. Fraud, waste or abuse? I thought I signed up to make sure that those things didn't happen, but apparently I was mistaken. I don't think I can put you down for any of those. I guess fraud? My job as an inspector general is actually to...

Fine. Ferret out waste, fraud, and abuse. I am a watchdog. You do have hall monitor energy. I see it. A little bit. Big watchdog energy. What kinds of things was your department blowing that taxpayer cheddar on? Yacht parties? Balloon excursions? What was the caviar budget? I've never had caviar. Is that like the egg stuff? So you're saying no caviar Wednesdays?

Okay, but even without bottomless caviar, the salaries of these government workers must account for a large part of our bloated federal budget, right? I think the reality is that they're getting wealthy at a touch-bare expense. How much of the federal budget is spent on federal employees? Four percent. Are you sure you don't mean 94 percent? Four percent. Four percent? Yes. I thought you were going to say a much larger number.

A lot of people do. By eliminating your position, how much money was saved for the taxpayers? The taxpayers didn't save any money by eliminating mine. The money that we have under my leadership actually returned is over $30 billion to the Treasury. I'm no mathematician, but that sounds...

Pretty good. We've gotten $21 billion back in restitution and relief to Americans who were scammed by their financial companies. And it's even better because we don't cost taxpayers a single dollar. That's right. These guys were hunting down fraud, waste, and abuse way back when Elon still had his original personality. So you were the original Doge.

Well, I don't like to call what the IGs do what Doja's doing. IGs work by standards. Is there any part of you that's a little upset because an immigrant actually did steal your job?

No. No? No. Why should we fund a National Institute of Health? The things that NIH studies, you know, diabetes, aging, mental health, addiction, it's literally the epicenter of biomedical research for the entire planet. I do think there are ways that we could cut back on inefficiency, but you don't use a chainsaw to do that. You use a scalpel. This might sound crazy, but...

Is the Department of Government Efficiency not that efficient?

Speaking of ineffective... Some of the things that I say will be incorrect and should be corrected. Elon was quickly forced to hit Control-Z on many of his layoffs, which is the shortcut for Undo and not the name of one of his kids. So the administration decided to put us on administrative leave, and then they just started another round of firing. But since I got fired once already, I was not able to get back into my laptop, so...

I don't know if I have a letter or that. So you got fired. Mm-hmm. And then they essentially sent you a text that said, you up? And you responded, yes. And then they ghosted you? Yep. So are you saying that this government is being run by f***boys? Essentially, yes.

It also doesn't help that Elon keeps revising down the amount of waste he's finding. I think we can do at least two trillion. A trillion dollars. Half a trillion dollars. $150 billion. Classic f***boy behavior. Over-promising and under-delivering.

Do you believe that the intention behind Doge is to actually cut unnecessary spending? If you wanted to take over all of your competitors' business, one way you could do that is you could go to every financial regulator, every government agency that has sensitive data from the private sector. You could suck that data into some sort of AI, large language model, and then you could use it to undercut all of American industry.

Do you think there's any chance that Elon is doing something good with all of our data? Like, maybe with having access to all that data, he'll finally understand the mysteries of the human heart. No. Well, they've removed the watchdogs. And the danger of that is that Congress...

doesn't have a transparent way of knowing what is happening within these agencies and departments. It's almost like they've set out on this journey to find fraud, waste, and abuse, when really the fraud, waste, and abuse was inside them the whole time.

By the time Elon returns to his day job, an estimated 280,000 government employees could be fired. But despite all the chaos and destruction, there are some things that Chainsaw can't take away. After experiencing all of this, would you trust the government again? Honestly, yes. You would? I would. They need people that actually care about the American people. So you would go back, but after a healthy boundary talk? Yes.

Thank you, Desi. When we come back, Catherine Maher will be joining me on the show. Don't go away. Introducing Instagram teen accounts.

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Welcome back to The Daily Show. My guest tonight is the president and CEO of NPR. Please welcome Catherine Marr. Welcome. Thank you. Good to be here. Happy 100 days. I know. A lot has happened in the last 100 days. As head of NPR, you were recently asked to testify at the anti-American airwaves hearing. That's right. What kind of anti-American shenanigans are you getting up to over at NPR?

Let's see. Reporting on the impact of the administration on disabled folks. Reporting on veterans issues and the revocation of a program that was designed to keep veterans in their homes following COVID-19. Tiny Desk. Tiny Desk concert. Yeah. That was it.

At some point, Americans deserve big desks, and you guys have really been pushing this tiny desk narrative for so, so long. Efficiency. Efficiency, right? I mean, did you ever imagine that you would be having to defend yourself in front of Marjorie Taylor Greene and trying to defend the whole purpose of NPR? Was that on your dream board? My dream... My...

Yes. It was. My dream board was to advocate for NPR in any way that I can in all public media. So if I'm going to go in front of Marjorie Taylor Greene, I'm going to tell her exactly why we're so valuable and beneficial to the country. I saw a picture here. We have a picture here. I want to know what was going through your mind in this. Were you asking for help from a higher being? What was going through your head there?

Gary's just trying to sit down. Oh, really? Without falling out of my chair. Because you're used to tiny desks. Like, this is just too large. This is too large. Well, you know, when you get in there, it's a little bit like Mount Olympus. They're very, very far away and very high up, and you're very small and on the ground, and so you're just that thing of looking up. It is actually kind of awe-inspiring. I know that people are sort of cynical about Congress at times, but I was

I was in awe. I mean, I'm sitting there. This is the seat of our legislative branch, and it really was an honor to be able to go in. I mean, it's, you know, NPR, PBS is often part of the conversation. I think there's been a lot of push for many, many years to take funding away. But in, like, 2025, the criticism from the right is, what do we need public funds to go towards NPR for? What is that argument? People are getting their news from all sorts of people. Most people just get their news from the TikTok feed from their neighbor.

So why do they need their taxes to go to a place like NPR? Well, there's also a very big difference between disseminating the news and gathering the news. And what we do is we do news gathering. It allows for people to then be able to come in and add their spin and their commentary on it. So I have no problem with TikTok influencers or other people resharing that news. I think that that's actually great. But we want them to have credible sources of news to begin with to be able to base that work on.

But more importantly, I think the big misconception is that this money goes to NPR or to PBS. The reality is that the vast majority of funds in public broadcasting resources go directly to local stations. So I'm talking about... I did a little research. I'm talking about WK... Oh, this is... Okay, all right. Bring that NPR shit here. Oh, I get it. I think it's WMUK, WKAR are the stations where you grew up. Kalamazoo, Michigan. Yes, exactly. Yes, WMUK. Exactly.

And so stations like that, they get a significant part of their funding comes from public funds. And that really matters, especially when you get into rural parts of the country. So I was in Asheville, North Carolina recently, as we all know, devastating damage in Hurricane Helene. They have enormous radio towers that broadcast across that

because it's like this, you know, it's the Appalachian Mountains. Same thing's true. Eastern Kentucky. You get out to the Rocky Mountains, same thing is true. Huge swaths of the country. That's expensive to maintain. We cover 99.7% of the country with our broadcast coverage, and that allows for Americans to have access to news, even in places where news deserts are growing, where disasters happen. That's what your federal funds go to. They go to your local station, they go to your local reporters. So what does that look like? So, I mean, the threat right now...

The threat right now is they take a billion dollars away from NPR, PBS over the next couple years, correct? Corporation for Public Broadcasting, NPR, PBS, and all of public media.

What does that look like? If that goes through, if they take a billion dollars away, what happens? It's not great. I really -- I think that Americans need to be aware that it is going to be harmful to the system, right? So a lot of us probably grew up on kids' television, PBS Kids. It's -- I mean, it is a crown jewel of American public broadcasting programming. And whether you think about, you know, your history with Mr. Rogers, whether you're thinking about "Sesame Street," whether you're thinking about more contemporary programming,

That is so important, and that is a threat, under threat. When you think about your local radio stations, those may not be able to provide the same sorts of services. And the first thing that's going to go, I have to tell you, is going to be local reporters' jobs. We have news deserts. 20% of Americans live in a place where they have no local news coverage other than public radio.

What that means is that when we lose public funding, we are no longer going to be able to cover things like what matters in the statehouse. We're not going to be able to cover natural disasters. We're not going to be able to cover issues of, you know, local politics, issues of what's happening in your local sports team.

We know that the existence of local news, and public radio in particular, contributes to lower rates of polarization, higher rates of civic engagement, and higher rates of civic trust. This is foundational infrastructure for our country. Even when we disagree, this is the sort of thing that can start to heal some of those disagreements and bring us back together. Now, it's interesting, though. Folks on the right are complaining there's a liberal bias in places like NPR.

And we're in a politically charged time, and you have to, as the CEO, you have to walk what that line is and appeal to all of America. But I also fear from the left, they feel like...

Moving towards the right looks like capitulation. In some ways, I feel like you're between a rock and a hard place. How do you balance this? I don't see a situation where there's an articulation of fairness that both sides can agree upon. The right asks you to be less progressive or less liberally biased. I think any actions towards that will be seen as strict capitulation from the left.

Is that where you're at? I mean, I won't lie. We are always in a tough spot. But what I love about our mission and our mandate is that it's actually our responsibility to try to serve everyone. No other commercial media organization has that same mandate. They can hyper-serve a particular audience, and that contributes to polarization. It's actually our job to bring folks together. What I see this as is, look,

Our reporting, our fact-based reporting is absolutely down the line. I stand by our journalism a thousand percent. We recognize that we have some of the best journalists in the business and they go out there and they find stories, whether they're reporting on Congress or, you know, whether they're reporting on issues of climate change, desertification, water rights, et cetera. They're doing great reporting.

I think what we need to be able to do is to bring more voices onto our air and have folks in conversation about the policies that are being made in this country today. We need to be able to hear from policymakers from across the spectrum. So we invite people from every party onto the air, but not everyone comes.

I don't think that it's a question per se of us being biased in terms of our actual reporting. What I do think is that we're missing some voices. And so I would just take this opportunity to extend again an invitation to conservative voices who feel like they're not being heard.

I also -- I think that we can't shirk from our responsibility to serve all Americans. And so another criticism that we see is that, you know, we're too woke. But the reality is, this is a very diverse nation. And our mandate under the Public Broadcasting Act is to serve everyone, including the unserved and the underserved. And we can't pull away from that either. We have to be able to represent America

in all of its diversity, even when that makes us sometimes uncomfortable. That means expanding the tent to be as big a tent as possible rather than sort of moving the tent around the country to accommodate different groups. Have you thought about... I mean, if you... You really want to expand that tent. Have you thought about rebranding, like, Terry Gross Presents the American Man Cast Ear Hole?

Like, really, like, let Terry lean into it, you know? I'm imagining Terry in a naughty pine basement, you know? Yeah, exactly. Just sipping bourbon, you know? I don't think... Yeah, pushing ivermectin every now and then? Like, is Terry interested in this? Come on. I couldn't tell you what Terry's drink of choice is. Maybe it is bourbon. We would have... That sounds like a great interview. This is... Get to the bottom of this, NPR. The people want to know. Catherine, before you leave, it seems only right for us to give you a Daily Show tote bag. Um...

I know this is currency. I believe this is considered the Bible in the NPR world, so I wanted to pass it along. I barter these for groceries at this point. Is that right? Okay, very nice. Catherine Marr, everybody. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back.

That's our show for tonight, but before we go, my new Fingers the Poll special is coming out soon. It's called MAGA, The Next Generation, where I'll be investigating the rise of young Trump voters. It premieres May 19th, and I gotta tell you, it's a banger. Be sure to check it out. Tomorrow night, Desi Lydic will be continuing our coverage of Trump's first 100 days. Do not miss it. Now, here it is. Your moment is at. Um...

There's always a, in any new administration, it's a roller coaster. There's some bumps along the road. The early initial people, they have an emotional reaction sometimes for the big changes, but what they're seeing and what the real polling is showing is that they understand that we're headed somewhere.

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