The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Trump's "Liberation Day" Tariffs & Booker's Speech Breaks Senate Record | Melissa Arnot Reid
Thu, 03 Apr 2025
Michael Kosta recaps surprising wins for the Democrats, including a victory in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race despite Elon Musk's financial interference, and a record-breaking 25-hour speech by Cory Booker. Plus, Trump launches his "Liberation Day" tariffs, and Republicans scramble to supply cover. In the first installment of "Mysteries of Donald Trump's Very Very Large A-Brain" Trump explores the word "groceries," a concept he calls "old-fashioned." Then, Grace Kuhlenschmidt educates New York shoppers on the new Trump-era food store lingo. Melissa Arnot Reid, the first American woman to summit and descend Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, talks to Michael Kosta about her new memoir, "Enough: Climbing Toward a True Self on Mount Everest.” She opens up about using high-level climbing as a sometimes unhealthy coping mechanism and why her journey to inner peace is a “forever climb.” She also discusses Juniper Fund, the non-profit she co-founded to support high-altitude workers in Nepal.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 1: What surprising wins did Democrats achieve?
From the most trusted journalists at Comedy Central, it's America's only source for news. This is The Daily Show with your host, Michael Kosta.
Yes. Welcome to The Daily Show. I'm Michael Kosta. We've got so much to talk about tonight. What a great audience. Cory Booker bursts his bladder. America's economy experiments with S&M. And we'll tell you why Trump would be the worst Instacart shopper ever. Let's get into the headlines, shall we?
Chapter 2: Why did Cory Booker set a Senate speech record?
Fuck it.
Yeah. Suck it, Elon. Now you only have $340 billion. What are you gonna buy with that, dumbass? And here's something we haven't said in a while. A second good thing happened for Democrats.
Update the history books. Last night, Democratic Senator Cory Booker concluded the longest speech in Senate history, clocking in at 25 hours and five minutes. He was protesting what he called a crisis brought on by the Trump administration's policies.
I don't know how to solve this. I don't know how to stop us from going down this road. But I know who does have the power. The people of the United States of America.
What an amazing day for Cory Booker. Not so great for the C-SPAN cameraman who missed the birth of his first child and kindergarten graduation. It was a long speech. And Booker not only set a new record, he broke the 1957 record held by segregationist Strom Thurmond, a man so racist we never even talk about how weird of a first name Strom is. Is that short for stromboli?
What the hell's going on here? You never want a huge racist at the top of the record books. If, like, the world record for eating the biggest burrito was held by Hitler, someone should probably beat that sooner rather than later. And the amazing thing is that Booker didn't just get up there and read from Wikipedia.
He stayed focused on condemning the Trump administration's assault on working people and the rule of law. So you can imagine that when he was done, the media had a lot of questions for him about these serious issues.
Does he get any bathroom breaks? Did he have a bathroom break? No sitting and no bathroom break.
You couldn't take a bathroom break. How did you not have to use the restroom for 25 hours?
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