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Elon Crashes the Oval Office, Trump Pushes Gaza Takeover | Colman Domingo
Thu, 13 Feb 2025
Jordan Klepper covers Trump pushing his Gaza takeover plan even further and the hypocrisy, conflicts of interest, and terrible "jokes" behind the most powerful unelected bureaucrat in D.C., Elon Musk. Marco Rubio was not always the it-girl of D.C. With his humble Florida beginnings and perfect lack of moral integrity, he was able to sneak his way in with Trump's in-crowd. This is the Daily Showography of Marco Rubio narrated by Molly Ringwald. Emmy-winning actor Colman Domingo joins to talk about his Oscar-nominated performance in the film “Sing Sing,” which is based on a real rehabilitation through the arts program at Sing Sing prison. He also discusses being co-chair of this year’s Met Gala and how to tell your personal story through style.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 1: What is the main topic of this episode?
Welcome to the Daily Show. I'm Jordan Klepper. We have a lot to talk about tonight. Trump gets romantic at the worst possible moment. Marco Rubio has the ultimate glow-up. And the White House celebrates Bring Your Elon to Work Day. So, let's get into another installment of the second coming of Donald J. Trump. Yesterday was a busy day at the White House.
Chapter 2: How is Trump planning a Gaza takeover?
First, Trump met with the king of Jordan, the country, Jordan. You're not the boss of me, King Abdullah II, okay? Of course, Trump invited the king to discuss his plan to displace two million people and turn Gaza into the Atlantic City of the Middle East, which sounds pretty clear-cut to me, but apparently the nitpickers in the media still have questions.
You said before that the U.S. would buy Gaza, and today you just said we're not going to buy Gaza. We're not going to have to buy. We're not going to buy anything. We're going to have it, and we're going to keep it, and we're going to make sure that there's going to be peace, and there's not going to be any problem, and nobody's going to question it.
There's no problem, and nobody's going to question it? Trump is like a Jedi who doesn't have the force. I'll take Gaza. Nobody's going to question it. Nobody. Is this thing working? Is this thing... Is this... Trump has another plan to convince the haters. A charm offensive.
Oh!
Okay. So it's going to be an ethnic cherishing. I got it. Okay, okay. I mean, how did that start like a Mussolini speech and end as a Boyz II Men song? We will take the land, it will be ours, and we're gonna make love to you. Like you want us to, and I'll hold it tight, baby, all through the night.
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Chapter 3: Why is Elon Musk involved in the government?
One thing I find weird about Donald Trump saying he wants to run Gaza is that from what we've seen so far, he barely wants to run the United States. For weeks, people have been raising alarms about how Trump seems to be handing way too much power over to Elon Musk. And yesterday, Trump replied, I hear you. You want me to give more power to Elon Musk.
President Trump setting new guidelines for hiring in the federal workforce, while giving more power to Elon Musk and his team at the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. A new executive order directs government agencies to pursue large-scale cuts, saying they now need hiring approval from DOGE.
Yes, Elon Musk is now in charge of all government hilings, hirings, hirings. I didn't... Sorry. I didn't say that right. Right. I didn't say it right.
Yeah, okay. Okay. Sorry.
I don't know why I keep Hitler. Misspeaking. I don't know why I keep misspeaking. So this was already a pretty unusual thing for a president to do. But Trump being Trump, he had to make it even more ridiculous by introducing it with a full-on circus act in the Oval Office. And look at this scene.
Musk is holding court with his hands tented like a Bond villain, probably to stop him from doing a Nazi salute. With his... With his four-year-old child in tow. I mean, that poor kid. His dad literally runs SpaceX, and Elon took him to a meeting on federal spending. Dad, are we gonna get to see the rockets? No, son, we're gonna discuss budgets because I'm a shitty dad.
I mean, everything about this event was so bizarre. Trump was sitting quietly for half an hour, retreating to his happy place, thinking about Arnold Palmer's giant doge. And who thought cloning Stephen Miller was a good idea? I mean, is it for spare parts? I mean, they look like a before and even more before picture. Okay? I mean... Okay, but all right.
Leaving aside this Renaissance painting done by the dogs playing poker guy, it's good that we have Elon Musk here, because we've been watching him slashing programs and shuttering agencies for a month now, and we can finally ask Elon, why are you doing this?
If the people cannot vote and have their will be decided by their elected representatives in the form of the president and the Senate and the House, then we don't live in a democracy. We live in a bureaucracy. So it's incredibly important that the president, the House, and the Senate decide what happens as opposed to a large, unelected bureaucracy.
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Chapter 4: What conflicts of interest does Elon Musk have?
So all of our actions are maximally transparent. In fact, I don't think there's been... I don't know of a case where an organization has been more transparent than the Doge organization. And I fully expect to be scrutinized and get a daily proctology exam.
Oh! Well, I did the exam, and what an asshole! I don't want to give you a proctology exam. I just want to know what you're doing, because another advantage of federal bureaucrats is that they can't have conflicts of interest, whereas you seem to have every conflict of interest. SpaceX has government contracts. Tesla is under government oversight. X is under government investigation.
And his hair plugs are being investigated by the Department of No One's Buying This. You're basically a walking conflict of interest. Is that not a huge problem?
Well, all of our actions are fully public. So if you see anything, you say, like, wait a second. Hey, Elon, that seems like maybe that's, you know, there's a conflict there. I feel like people are going to be shy about saying that. They'll say it immediately, you know?
Oh, good. Okay. If we see a conflict, we just need to say something. Hey, Elon, I know there's a conflict. What? Did that work?
No? No? Nothing happened? There's no accountability and nothing matters? Great. Perfect system. Well, f*** it. He's not going to be transparent. And he's riddled with conflicts of interest. But at least he's a genius. And the work he's going to do will be flawless.
Mr. Musk, you said on X that an example of the fraud that you have cited was $50 million of condoms were sent to Gaza. How can we make sure that all the statements that you said were correct so we can trust what you say?
Well, first of all, some of the things that I say will be incorrect and should be corrected. So nobody's going to bat a thousand.
Nobody's going to bat 1,000. You made up a $50 million conspiracy of sending condoms to Gaza. You're not grounding out to third. You're puking into the umpire's mouth. And just for the record, of course the United States didn't send $50 million worth of condoms to Gaza. We sent $5 million of vibrating sex swings to North Korea, and I believe it stopped nuclear war. But don't quote me on that.
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Chapter 5: Who is Marco Rubio according to the Daily Show?
Now, do you know anyone who's 150? I don't. Okay. They should be on the Guinness Book of World Records. They're missing out. Oh, snap.
He's the CEO of comedy. I have detractors? You do, sir. You'll want to Neuralink these jokes straight into your brainstem. Featuring an opening act by the Balding Brothers. Order now and you'll get even more of Elon's most hilarious bits. Blackmailing with money? Go yourself. The one thing he's not cutting is the laughs.
I am aspirationally, you know, aspirationally funny. So, yeah.
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Oh, when we come back, we find out about the man who's going to get us into war. Don't go away.
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Welcome back to The Daily Show. Every time Donald Trump farts out a new idea for buying a foreign country or slapping tariffs on imported salami, the person who has to translate that into policy is his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio. But how did Rubio get such an exciting job? Let's find out in a brand new Daily Showography.
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Chapter 6: How did Marco Rubio rise in politics?
Mr. Sick, Mr. Sick.
Yep, that's me. Bet you're wondering how a fun-sized Florida boy went from this.
Our con artist is about to take over the Republican Party and the conservative movement and we have to put a stop to it.
To this.
Mr. President, I think Miami-Dade County likes you a lot. I think they love you a lot.
I wasn't always hanging out with all the cool kids at Donald Trump's lunch table. But sometimes when you're in the right place at the right time with the right complete lack of moral spine or integrity, magic can happen. This is the daily showography of me, Marco Rubio. Pick me in pink. I wasn't always the it girl of D.C.
I'm actually from Miami, near Little Havana, or as I like to call it, just normal-sized Havana. Graduating high school with a 2.1 GPA, I had the body of a Chippendales dancer and the brain of a Chippendales dancer. Fortunately, I got into a really good college that no one has ever heard of on a football scholarship. Some people say I'm kind of a jock.
Well, they don't say it, but they're thinking it. After that college went bankrupt, I kinda bounced around for a while. Two more schools, some epic partying, a bullshit arrest for underage drinking. I still dreamed of joining the NFL, but settled for marrying an NFL cheerleader. Being a cheerleader's husband prepared me for a lifetime of holding down jobs I'm not qualified for.
After that came law school and local politics. When the Cuban-American community heard how my parents had fled Castro, they embraced me wholeheartedly. I will always be the son of exiles. And when they heard I was lying about that, it was too late.
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Chapter 7: What was Marco Rubio's presidential campaign like?
Mike effing drop. As long as he didn't come up with a nickname for me, I had this battle won.
I call him Little Marco.
L-I-D-D-L-A, Little.
Don't worry about it, Little Marco. Little mounts on him. Bing, bing, bing. Bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. Okay, that's hurtful.
It was time to go burn book nuclear. And you know what they say about men with small hands? What? Come back from that, Hoover.
He referred to my hands. If they're small, something else must be small. I guarantee you there's no problem. I guarantee it.
Oh.
I was outplayed. I went from superstar to a short, sweaty, high-heeled loser.
Those were, uh, those heels were really up there. You won't see me wearing them.
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Chapter 8: Why did Marco Rubio support Trump?
It's...
It's remarkable. What is it like? What is it like collaborating with folks who were formerly incarcerated compared to Hollywood nepo babies? Like, were you just relieved to be like, oh, there's no nepo babies on the call sheet today?
Thank God. Thank God, finally. But you know what's kind of cool is that these guys had the lived experience of going through this. But also, they were trained while they were on the inside. So I was working with actors. People had training and had respect for Shakespeare. And, you know, we were just doing the work together. So we sat at the table and we just collaborated in a very gentle way.
Now, these guys, a lot of guys were in prison maybe 20 years, 25 years. And so, but I love, it's a little subversive because when you see the film, you don't know really. Well, now you know because I told you. But you don't know really still because it feels like a documentary in some way. But then you realize that people are playing versions of themselves when they were inside.
It's really incredible.
When you're even working with, like, one of your close friends who you're sort of paired with within the film, Clarence, you have scenes where you're actually working about going over lines and what have you, which in some ways is almost meta as to the things that you were doing off-camera.
I love that it's so meta, because a lot of these guys actually were, we filmed in two decommissioned prisons in upstate New York, and a lot of guys passed through those prisons. Downstate is one of those prisons that everyone sort of lands at, and then they're spread out throughout New York.
But a lot of guys were like, Clarence Macklin Jr., literally, he said he was in, we were filming one scene, and he knew, he said, oh no, there was a cell that I was in before. So it had that meta, but it also had a meta quality that my best friend, Sean San Jose, is actually my best friend.
Is that right?
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