Tonight’s “The Daily Show” gag reel preview
You won’t have to watch “The Daily Show” tonight. Social media is filled with what you’ll see this evening.
He is peace:
Vote for the Black-Asian lady, warned Trump and J.D. Vance in 2024, and she’ll send your sons and daughters to war. Maybe WWIII.
Yup, world war.
Why are we bombing Iran again?
Judd Legum at Popular Information itemizes 17 reasons the Trump administration has floated for why we attacked Iran and why now. (Trump throws lunch at the wall. His team throws spaghetti.)
John Oliver wasn’t done being stunned.
“You go through this and then in five years you realize you put somebody in who was no better,” says the peace president. Wait. What?
Top clerics selected Mojtaba Khamenei as Iran’s supreme leader, despite President Trump’s warning that he was “unacceptable.” Oil prices surged to their highest levels since the pandemic, reflecting growing alarm over a prolonged war.
But no worries, say White House allies. The pain won’t last. They all got the memo.
Back in the day, I joked that if you wanted to know what Sean Hannity thought before he did, beat him to his fax machine in the morning. Now the memos are digital.
I keep returning to this ancient clip from The Anderson Tapes (1971). “It just hurts right now.” Behold, your overlords:
