Now that Donald Trump is president-elect, it's probably "a good time to ask what Donald Trump's plans are for the country, because somehow during an 18-month campaign, we never actually asked," Trevor Noah said on The Daily Show. "We never actually asked policy questions." But Trump did hammer on three things during his campaign: He would build that wall (and have Mexico pay for it), lock her (Hillary Clinton) up, and "drain the swamp" in Washington. And in his 60 Minutes interview on Sunday, Trump walked all those pledges back.
As an immigrant and a black man, "it's obvious that I would be wary of Donald Trump," Noah said on Monday night's show, posted online Tuesday, but after his 60 Minutes sitdown, "I feel like there's a new group that should be worried about the Trump presidency, and that's Donald Trump's supporters." The great wall may now be at least partly a fence, Noah pointed out — "Humpty Dumpty's like, 'What the f—, Donald, I can't sit on a fence. I'm not Paul Ryan!'" — and Trump now says he doesn't intend to appoint a special prosecutor for Hillary after all, calling the Clintons "good people" after trashing them on the trail. "Wow, from 'the Devil' to 'good people,'" Noah marveled. "That must have been one hell of a fruit basket she sent him."
The whole "drain the swamp" thing seemed out, too, when Trump staffed his transition staff with lobbyists (though Vice President-elect Mike Pence fired a lot of them on Tuesday). But discarded promises aside, Trump seems out of his depth, Noah said, comparing his tour of the White House to "a toddler at a space museum." Seriously, he added, "if you had just become president of the United States, and leader of the free world, what is the one thing you might no longer be focused on?" Well, on 60 Minutes, Trump suggested he will still tweet and post on Facebook as president, out of an obligation to his followers. "Who is this guy?" Noah asked. "He's bragging that he picked up 100,000 followers yesterday? No, dude, you're going to be president of the United States — you picked up 300 million followers, and we can't block, mute, or unfollow you. But we can still troll you, and we're going to troll you hard." So there's that. Watch below. Peter Weber
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