The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Trump Threatens Third Term, Admin Admits Deportation Mistake
Wed, 02 Apr 2025
Michael Kosta breaks down the Trump administration’s disregard for the Constitution: Trump’s plan for a third term that even Republicans think is an April Fools joke, omitting due process on ICE deportations, and a mistaken deportation to El Salvador that can’t be undone. Plus, Josh Johnson lays out the difference between Kid Rock's tattoos and deportation tattoos. Charlamagne Tha God has had enough of Chuck Schumer and Gavin Newsom's stale brands of politics and calls on the struggling Democratic Party to rebrand and match the energy of people like Cory Booker and Jasmine Crockett. Gianna Toboni, an Emmy-winning journalist, joins Michael Kosta to share findings from her new book, “The Volunteer: The Failure of the Death Penalty in America and One Inmate’s Quest to Die With Dignity.” They discuss why the system is failing Americans, the complexities around lethal injections and pharmaceutical companies, and why the death penalty affects more parties than just convicted inmates.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 1: What are the key topics discussed in this episode?
I'm Michael Kosta. We've got so much to talk about tonight. Your tattoo might ruin your life. Cory Booker won't shut up in a good way. And Donald Trump pledges to respect the Constitution. April fools, he still doesn't care. Let's get into it.
Chapter 2: Is Trump really planning for a third term?
The second Trump administration is off to a roaring start, if you don't count the economy, inflation, rampant corruption, cyberbullying of ally nations, and we're all going to die of measles. So it makes sense that on Sunday, he said he's considering running for a third term. But of course, the liberal media is freaking out.
New fallout after President Trump did not rule out the possibility of a third term.
A move that would require breaching the two-term limit outlined in the Constitution.
Caroline, what method would the president use to potentially run for a third term? Look, you guys continue to ask the president this question about a third term, and then he answers honestly and candidly with a smile, and then everybody here melts down about his answer. Yeah.
Right. Yeah, right. Obviously, this is the media's fault, okay? If they ask the president a question, of course he's gonna give you a deranged answer. He's the president. What do you expect him to say? No, I'm constitutionally barred from running again. Come on. The guy's just having a good time! His fellow Republicans know nobody gets comedy like the Republicans.
Don't you think he's probably trolling? I think he's probably having some fun with it, probably messing with it. This is a president who loves to give a snake in a can to the media just to watch them open it. And he's doing that. This is another jump scare that has just lit up the internet.
Yeah, guys, relax. The president of the most powerful nation in the world is just, he's in his Dennis the Menace phase. The point is, everybody knows he's joking. Trump isn't serious about a potential third term.
Trump insisted he was serious about a potential third term. Trump said, I'm not joking. I'm not joking.
No, no, that can mean anything. That can mean anything. Look, the truth is, Trump doesn't really joke so much as he jokes, right? The same way that guys joke to their wives about having a threesome. Ha ha ha. You know, that would be so wild. Obviously, we'd never do that. I mean, definitely not with my coworker, Cindy, that you said was pretty once.
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Chapter 3: Why is the deportation system under scrutiny?
We can just get that guy back on the next flight, right? Right? Right?
But here's the thing. The administration argues he can't be brought back because now he's in El Salvador's custody.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. What are you talking about? We can't get one person out of a prison that we sent to that prison? J.D. Vance is out there calling dibs on rare earth minerals underneath Greenland and Ukraine. But with El Salvador, suddenly they're like, hey, sorry, no hablo espanol. Trump, don't you speak Spanish? Trendy, Arguello. Tremendioso.
Seeing all these constitutional crises pile up, it makes me wonder what sort of evil machinations Donald Trump is plotting inside the Oval Office right now.
A friend of mine, Kid Rock, sometimes referred to as Bob. I know him as Bob, but he's been a good friend for a long time, many years, and he's been after something that is for the good of a lot of people.
Mr. President, I don't mean to alarm you, but the guy next to you, he's scoring a lot of points on that checklist right now. For more on the ICE raids, let's go to the White House with our very own Josh Johnson. Josh. Josh.
Josh, what Trump is doing right now is disturbing. That's absolutely right, Michael. And we can't stand for this. The American people need to get out in the streets right now and let Donald Trump know that this is a nation of rules and laws. And the American people will not allow him to hang out in the Oval Office with Kid Rock over there.
I thought that speech was going to be about the mass deportations.
No, no, at this point, I'm sort of resigned to that. But if he's going to be a dictator, can he at least be a serious one? When the history books get written about the fall of American democracy, I just don't want to look like a bitch, okay? If I'm going to get my nipples tasered off in an El Salvadorian prison, it can't be by a guy who looks like Ronald McDonald's lesbian aunt, all right?
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Chapter 4: What is Charlamagne Tha God's take on Democratic politics?
That's lower than Pete Hexheff's blood alcohol level.
Democrats are about as popular as an album of RFK Jr. covering Adele. I set fire to my brain. Isn't there anyone who can save this party?
NBC News is reporting that the Bidens want back in.
Isn't there anybody else who can save this party? Look, I know there are some people that think Joe Biden should help rebuild because as the most recent president, he is the de facto leader of the party. And to those people, I'd like to say, Hunter, lay off the crack, OK? I thought Biden was an OK president. It's not his fault his brain reached his term limit before he did.
But he's not the future of the party. So who's supposed to be the leaders? Well, in Congress, you've got two people. The first one is this guy, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
In America, we don't have a king. We don't have a monarch. We don't have a dictator. In our democracy, we have separate and co-equal branches of government.
Yeah, I'm not feeling too inspired by business. I'm not too inspired by business casual Morpheus, okay? You take the blue pill, nothing changes. You take the red pill, nothing changes, but with cherry flavor. And pay less Obama's counterpart in the Senate? Eh, he's somehow even less inspiring.
It's going to affect beer, okay? Most of it, corona here, comes from Mexico. it's going to affect your guac, because what is guacamole made of? Avocados.
Schumer is not the man with a plan to fight Trump. Shit, he ain't the man with a plan for a good Cinco de Mayo. It's not my job to say that any particular candidates need to be primaried and thrown out of office, but Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer need to be primaried and thrown out of office. Yeah. So, yeah. Maybe Democratic leaders in Congress ain't it.
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Chapter 5: Who are the new voices challenging political norms?
So I was making a documentary for a show called Vice on HBO, and I needed an interview with a death row inmate. I wasn't trying to do anything beyond that one interview. Wrote him a letter, didn't know if I'd hear back, and then I got a call. Ely, Nevada. I was like, OK, this is him. And we started chatting.
And from the first few minutes of that conversation, I understood that this guy was different. For one, he was completely unsympathetic. He was a violent offender, as you said. He was convicted of two murders. But he was also volunteering for execution.
Right.
Right. Only 10 percent of inmates volunteer for execution.
What does that mean?
So he wrote the judge a letter and he said, let's get this over with.
But they're already sentenced to death.
A lot of these states don't carry out these sentences. Right. Right. So the attorney general's office has to pursue that. And the judge has to sign a warrant and then they schedule the execution. And then the prison chief has to find the drugs or the method that they're going to use to execute this guy.
And he actually said, and you have the letter, his handwriting, it's very moving. He says, I, Scott Dozier, am requesting... Execute me.
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