President Trump was in a good mood Monday as he announced his revamped NAFTA trade deal with Canada and Mexico. "Part of the new trade deal is that Canada has to allow U.S. farmers more access to its dairy market," Trevor Noah said on Monday's Daily Show. "And people said it would be bad to elect a bully as president, but now, America is literally taking Canada's milk money, so I guess it worked."
"President Trump was so happy with his new NAFTA that, even when reporters changed the subject to Brett Kavanaugh and sexual assault, instead of getting angry, he just implicated everybody with a smile," suggesting that "Democrats, Republicans, we're all scumbags, forget about it," Noah said. But when Trump pivoted from Kavanaugh's drinking history to his own history as a teetotaler, asking everybody to imagine what a disaster it would be if he drank, Noah just laughed. "I never thought I'd say these words, but I totally agree with Donald Trump," he said, before entertaining second thoughts. "Although, I think that Trump is so crazy that he's the one guy who would become a better person when he's drunk."
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