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Speaker 3: Welcome to the Daily Show. I'm Hetty Lydenk. We've got
Speaker 3: so much to talk about tonight. Trump is a total
Speaker 3: idiom corporation sachet away from Pride Month? And does America
Speaker 3: have a military a parade? This weekend might finally give
Speaker 3: us the answer. So let's get into the headline. Let's
Speaker 3: kick things off with mean coin entrepreneur Donald Trump, who
Speaker 3: also moonlights as President of the United States. Yesterday he
Speaker 3: went to Fort Braggs. He gave a speech to his
Speaker 3: favorite men in uniform who aren't in the village people.
Speaker 3: He was there to commemorate the two hundred and fiftieth
Speaker 3: anniversary of the Army, So of course he ended up
Speaker 3: discussing Joe Biden.
Speaker 4: We had a grossly, grossly unfit president. And by the way,
Speaker 4: I've known this guy for a long time. He was
Speaker 4: never the sharpest.
Speaker 3: Bulb, sharpest bulb, what a wordsmith. See, most people would
Speaker 3: have gone with brightest bulb or sharpest tool, but Donald
Speaker 3: Trump took half of both and slushed them together. That
Speaker 3: is what makes him the cream of the litter, well brovo,
Speaker 3: But again, Trump wasn't there to talk about Joe Biden.
Speaker 3: He was there to talk about America's proud military history
Speaker 3: and that went great too.
Speaker 4: Recently, other countries celebrated the victory of World War One.
Speaker 4: France was celebrating. Really, we're all celebrating. The only one
Speaker 4: that doesn't celebrate is the USA and with the ones
Speaker 4: that won the war without us, you'd all be speaking
Speaker 4: German right now, maybe a little Japanese thrown in.
Speaker 3: Okay. I know what you're thinking. Why would we be
Speaker 3: speaking Japanese when they were on our side in World
Speaker 3: War One? Well, I think it's because he said world
Speaker 3: War one, but what he meant was lightbel But just
Speaker 3: for the record, I'd love to speak German and a
Speaker 3: little Japanese because that would help me understand like ninety
Speaker 3: five percent of the porn I watch, does anyone know
Speaker 3: what Aina Kline megachode means? I don't like it. But
Speaker 3: what got the most attention wasn't what Donald Trump said,
Speaker 3: but how much the troops enjoyed it.
Speaker 5: President Trump's rally style speech yesterday at Fort Bragg in
Speaker 5: North Carolina.
Speaker 6: He had active duty troops booing, the media booing his
Speaker 6: political opponents.
Speaker 4: Do you think this crowd would have showed up for Biden?
Speaker 4: I don't think so.
Speaker 7: I don't think I don't think so.
Speaker 4: The fake news ladies and gentlemen, look at him, look
Speaker 4: at them all. Oh, what I have to put up with?
Speaker 4: Fake news? What I have to put up with in
Speaker 4: Los Angeles, the governor of California, the mayor of Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: Oh, those boos are very upsetting, and not just because
Speaker 3: they remind me of my fifth grade talent show. And
Speaker 3: looking back, I probably shouldn't have performed the entirety of
Speaker 3: Eddie Murphy's raw. I gotta say, I gotta say. This
Speaker 3: is not a good look for the military. The military
Speaker 3: is supposed to be a political.
Speaker 8: Graphic is still.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Oh, I gotta say. I gotta say this
Speaker 3: is not a good look for the military. The military
Speaker 3: is supposed to be a political They don't serve Democrats
Speaker 3: or Republicans. They protect all of us, even Jill Stein voters.
Speaker 3: For some reason, but maybe the reason these troops seems
Speaker 3: so maggat is because the non Trumpers didn't want to
Speaker 3: be there.
Speaker 6: According to Military dot Com, memos from Fort Bragg reveal
Speaker 6: a tightly orchestrated effort to curate the optics of Trump's
Speaker 6: recent visit, including hand picking soldiers for the audience based
Speaker 6: on political leanings. Other rules for troops appearing on camera
Speaker 6: included no fat soldiers.
Speaker 3: Wow, that really sums up the two principles of Donald Trump,
Speaker 3: doesn't it? Number one? Total loyalty? Number two? No faddies,
Speaker 3: keep in mind that before Trump turned the military into
Speaker 3: his own personal Maga cheer squad, He's started the week
Speaker 3: by sending marines into America's most bangable city. And this
Speaker 3: is all just the warm up before the main event
Speaker 3: this weekend. President Trump's highly anticipated military parade kicks off
Speaker 3: this Saturday. The parade marks the armies two hundred and
Speaker 3: fiftieth anniversary. Oh my god, give these troops a break. Already,
Speaker 3: they have to sit through your show, they have to
Speaker 3: invade Los Angeles, and now they have to parade for you.
Speaker 3: America doesn't do military parade, so why is this one
Speaker 3: so important?
Speaker 6: The parade just so happens to also fall on President
Speaker 6: Trump's seventy ninth birthday.
Speaker 3: Yes, there it is, there it is the parade just
Speaker 3: so happens to be on his birthday, But that's not
Speaker 3: why he's doing it. This parade is for the army
Speaker 3: and the fudgi the whale cake is for the army,
Speaker 3: but he gets to bloom out the candles. So how
Speaker 3: much is the doge President I'm going to spend on
Speaker 3: this Army birthday extravaganza.
Speaker 6: The total cost to taxpayers up to forty five million dollars.
Speaker 9: The Army said it expects minimal damage to DC roads
Speaker 9: from the seventy ton tanks rolling down, but they've budgeted
Speaker 9: sixteen million of your dollars to repair those roads once
Speaker 9: the parade is over.
Speaker 3: Forty five million dollars and a third of that is
Speaker 3: just you ripping up the roads. People don't usually throw
Speaker 3: down that hard unless they're moving out the next day.
Speaker 3: Wait is Trump moving out the next day? But hey,
Speaker 3: at least they're budgeting for the road damage in advance, because,
Speaker 3: as Donald Trump always says, a penny saved is a
Speaker 3: bird in the hand. The more on Trump's military parade
Speaker 3: slash birthday celebration. Let's go live to Washington, d C.
Speaker 3: With Ronnie Chang.
Speaker 7: Thank you, Thank you, Deasi Desi, Hi, I'm embedded here
Speaker 7: with the military parade. I'm we're ready to go for
Speaker 7: the long haul.
Speaker 3: Wait, the long haul isn't the paraded one day event?
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's what they always say, But you know the
Speaker 7: US military one day in the Capitol, it turns into
Speaker 7: a twenty year quag.
Speaker 3: My real quick, Ronnie, it's a parade. I think they're
Speaker 3: just driving down a street while people wave.
Speaker 7: At them, all right, and I bet they'll be greeted
Speaker 7: as liberators too, right, when have I heard that before?
Speaker 7: Next thing, you know, we're paying off tribal leaders in
Speaker 7: Georgetown and creating dc isis. I know my history, Deisi.
Speaker 7: They're gonna spend us like Japan did in World War One?
Speaker 3: So you agree the whole parade is a terrible idea.
Speaker 7: No, I love it. Usually only Brown nations get to
Speaker 7: see American military hardware, and that's outside that window at
Speaker 7: very high speeds. It'll be nice for Americans to get
Speaker 7: court side seats for once. I mean there are shepherds
Speaker 7: and Yemen who can fact check this parade. I mean
Speaker 7: they'll be looking at a TV like Nady got a
Speaker 7: newer model of that drone.
Speaker 3: Trust me, But Ronnie, that's not a good thing. This
Speaker 3: is what dictators do, display their military strength to intimidate everyone.
Speaker 7: Okay, okay, man, this is clearly bothering you. But look, okay,
Speaker 7: this is actually a win win for both sides. Mega
Speaker 7: gets a cool parade and for the liberals, having the
Speaker 7: whole military and all our weapons in one place means
Speaker 7: the rest of America is unguarded, which gives a saner
Speaker 7: nation the chance to come in and take over.
Speaker 3: What are you saying?
Speaker 7: Hold on, sorry, I got, I got. Let's make a
Speaker 7: call real quick.
Speaker 8: Sure.
Speaker 7: Hey Canada, Hey, what are you doing Saturday? I mean,
Speaker 7: how would you like America to be your fifty first day?
Speaker 3: Ronnie Chang? Everyone, we come back, we find out which
Speaker 3: company aren't feeling proud that here for don't.
Speaker 5: Welcome back to.
Speaker 3: The Daily Show. June is Pride Month, where we celebrate
Speaker 3: the LGBTQ community and stores roll out their pride merch
Speaker 3: to rake in some of that sweet gay cash, as
Speaker 3: it's known in the gay community money. But this year
Speaker 3: things are different.
Speaker 6: Pride Month is here and some big brands have gone
Speaker 6: conspicuously quiet.
Speaker 8: Corporate America is scaling back.
Speaker 2: It's marketing that includes selling Pride themed merchandise or posting
Speaker 2: supportive messages on social media.
Speaker 3: Walmart, MasterCard, Comcast, Pepsi, and Moore have either stopped or
Speaker 3: scaled back Pride events.
Speaker 10: Anniser Busch not sponsoring Pride Saint Louis after a thirty
Speaker 10: year partnership. Target's once bold Pride displaced, now stripped.
Speaker 3: Bear absolutely despicable. Target has completely abandoned its role as
Speaker 3: the number one destination for gay people with horrible fashion sense.
Speaker 3: But the question is why are these companies suddenly retreating
Speaker 3: back into the closet.
Speaker 10: More than sixty percent of more than two hundred executives
Speaker 10: say they fear backlash from the Trump administration and its
Speaker 10: actions against diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts by company.
Speaker 2: Our country will be work no longer.
Speaker 10: Some also fear of falling prey to conservative activists and
Speaker 10: customers becoming the next bud Light. Some companies writing checks
Speaker 10: but asking that their names and logos not be included.
Speaker 10: It's just it's a strange time for Pride this year.
Speaker 3: Come on secretly paying gays because you're ashamed your major
Speaker 3: corporations not Lindsey Graham for more an Alex. If we
Speaker 3: turn now to our senior gay business correspondent, Troy, I wanna.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much. DESI yes, I am the senior
Speaker 5: gay business correspondent.
Speaker 3: Just to clarify, are you a correspondent on gay business
Speaker 3: or a business correspondent.
Speaker 8: Who is gay? Yes?
Speaker 1: Cool?
Speaker 8: Cool, cool cool.
Speaker 3: So what do you make of corporations pulling back from
Speaker 3: Pride Month?
Speaker 5: You know what, I'd get it, big corporations.
Speaker 1: I'd get it.
Speaker 5: You were only into jumping all over Pride a few
Speaker 5: years ago because it was trendy and cool and so
Speaker 5: Obama and you wanted all that gay cash.
Speaker 1: But we have a lot of it, you know, I
Speaker 1: get it. Most of us don't have kids.
Speaker 3: Ugh, right, totally, you don't do that boring breeding thing
Speaker 3: that we do.
Speaker 5: Yeah, totally, you know, but I get it. The vibes
Speaker 5: have shifted. You know, Maga's ascended. Trump is president, Obama
Speaker 5: is dead. But I you know, one day the pendulum
Speaker 5: is going to swing back toward the gays. And when
Speaker 5: it does, a little rainbow flag isn't going to cut it.
Speaker 5: If they want our business again, they're going to have
Speaker 5: to do something that shows their commitment.
Speaker 3: Sure, like discounts, or they could donate to LGBTQ causes
Speaker 3: they're going to have to bottom oh bottom, yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Hey, corporations, you want to prove that you have commitment,
Speaker 5: Find your most homophobic executive. Change his fiber intake day
Speaker 5: one of the act. Make him eat light mostly greens. Okay,
Speaker 5: he needs to douche because sometimes you can't just trust
Speaker 5: your body. And then he needs lubricamp. Okay, you can't
Speaker 5: just pull a heath ledger and spit on it.
Speaker 1: Rip.
Speaker 8: Wow.
Speaker 3: Bottoming does take a lot of commitment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it does.
Speaker 5: I know even some gig guys won't do it.
Speaker 1: Brian.
Speaker 3: That demand is detailed.
Speaker 5: Yeah, sorry, is that too much? Too much detail for you?
Speaker 5: Does mail love make you cringe?
Speaker 3: Oh my god? No, no, oh god, no, it's so beautiful,
Speaker 3: like it was so beautiful. I mean, in fact, I
Speaker 3: wish I couldn't be there with you in the room,
Speaker 3: just like celebrate.
Speaker 8: It all, you know.
Speaker 1: All right, calm down.
Speaker 3: Sorry, I just I want to be an ally. So
Speaker 3: do you think bottoming will be enough to satisfy them?
Speaker 1: Well, you know it depends on the angle.
Speaker 3: And no, I mean to satisfy the gay community.
Speaker 5: Oh oh right, okay, no, no, no, no, there's there's
Speaker 5: all sorts of ways companies can embrace gay culture. They
Speaker 5: can they can show their appreciation of Megan Hilty. They
Speaker 5: can find out who Megan Hilty is. They can open
Speaker 5: their marriages, then close their marriages, then open their marriages again.
Speaker 8: AMC.
Speaker 5: You can put Nicole Kidman in charge of the company.
Speaker 5: She's basically the only reason gays go to the movies.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, Oh, and they can give gold Mian sacks
Speaker 3: to Katy Perry.
Speaker 1: I love that You're trying, but you don't.
Speaker 5: You don't get it.
Speaker 3: They can watch drag Race. I love drag Race a
Speaker 3: true ally. Yeah, thank you. That really means a lot.
Speaker 3: I feel so seen and that is what Pride Month
Speaker 3: is all about.
Speaker 1: That's not true, But okay, so us this.
Speaker 3: The next time the pendulum swings to the right. What
Speaker 3: if corporations abandon your community.
Speaker 1: Again, Well, that will be difficult.
Speaker 5: And if they come crawling back a third time, they'll
Speaker 5: need to go above and beyond to regain our trust.
Speaker 5: And you know there is something they can do, and
Speaker 5: I think we both know what it is. Yes, equal
Speaker 5: hiring practices.
Speaker 1: Wow, did you you just said full on fisting?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 3: No, I said what you said, drag queen. Yes, Queen,
Speaker 3: I'll see no shame. Join from back, hot, go join.
Speaker 10: Me on the Welcome to Day.
Speaker 3: My guest to night is a comedian whose new blue
Speaker 3: stand up special is called Father. Please Welcome, Let's go
Speaker 3: go Queen, a comedy and queen of fashion, always bringing it.
Speaker 8: Oh my goodness, thank you. I feel like I'm giving
Speaker 8: a little Ronald McDonald today.
Speaker 3: Come Ronald McDonald. But make it fashion.
Speaker 8: Make it fashion and girl. That's right, that's our, you know,
Speaker 8: that's our. Make a girl, make a girl.
Speaker 3: I am such a fan of your special. It was
Speaker 3: so funny you it's called Father, and you say it
Speaker 3: came because your fans call you mother, but you identify
Speaker 3: more as father.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Is that because you're not a fan of unpaid labor?
Speaker 8: Does he? You know now that I'm in father's position,
Speaker 8: I'm not right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 8: Yeah? I mean because well, I mean fathers do less
Speaker 8: and I wasn't aware of that. I maybe I am
Speaker 8: a fan of unpaid labor. Maybe I'm like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 8: you keep laboring. Wyah, I sit.
Speaker 3: Back, I'm father now. Yeah, yeah, it all makes sense.
Speaker 3: You're talking to your special about how your husband does
Speaker 3: all the laundry.
Speaker 8: You do none of it. You do none of it.
Speaker 3: He does all the labor in the house.
Speaker 8: It was a devastating day when we found that out.
Speaker 8: We weren't it wasn't we weren't trying to do it
Speaker 8: that way, by the way, like I wasn't trying not
Speaker 8: to do the laundry. I truly did not know. I
Speaker 8: hadn't been contributing for seven years.
Speaker 3: Seven years.
Speaker 8: And he didn't know either, Like we were both. I
Speaker 8: asked him. I was like, hey, which setting is the best?
Speaker 8: When I went to try to do laundry, and that's
Speaker 8: when he was like, wait, wait, hold on, have you
Speaker 8: have you not been doing the laundry this whole time?
Speaker 8: And I was shocked too. I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 8: it has been you. So it was you know, it
Speaker 8: wasn't on purpose? Sure, no, of course not.
Speaker 3: I respect it. I fully respect it. And I will
Speaker 3: tell you I have always identified more with the father
Speaker 3: side of parenting. I always say, if the world could
Speaker 3: look at me like a working dad, I'm an excellent father.
Speaker 8: Yes i am. I am a mid mother.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's very mediocre mother.
Speaker 3: So I appreciate what.
Speaker 8: This is.
Speaker 3: This is exactly right. Your special, however, is excellent. One
Speaker 3: of the things that I appreciate so much about it,
Speaker 3: there's this it's so beautiful and colorful. Between the fashion
Speaker 3: that you're wearing and the set decoration, there's like a
Speaker 3: whimsical feeling to it, but you go deep. You tell
Speaker 3: these really deeply emotional stories. Was it was it fun
Speaker 3: for you to get to play with that juxtaposian Yeah.
Speaker 8: I mean, you know, comedians we have also like we
Speaker 8: have a duality, right, Like to get to levity, there
Speaker 8: was sadness, you know, and so yeah, I wear bright
Speaker 8: colors and things like that, and same with my set.
Speaker 8: Right it's like, you know, it's a sunflower, you know,
Speaker 8: because what you wear during the day. I realized, like
Speaker 8: you know, you don't see actually for most of the day,
Speaker 8: it's other people seeing it, right, And it's kind of
Speaker 8: what I want to That's that's why I got into
Speaker 8: performing too, you know, is I want other people to
Speaker 8: feel good. And so yeah, yeah, it's definitely a duality
Speaker 8: that exists, you know for a reason.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you feel that watching your special, you your total
Speaker 3: open book about your family dynamic. You talk about, uh,
Speaker 3: your grandmother kidnapping you as a child, You talk about
Speaker 3: your mother's mental health struggles. You talk about being an
Speaker 3: undocumented immigrant in LA as a child.
Speaker 8: Just look at real, just super super.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Well every day that go real easy read if it
Speaker 8: were a book, Yeah yeah, crazy true?
Speaker 9: Did you?
Speaker 3: Was it hard to have those conversations with your family
Speaker 3: about being that open?
Speaker 8: Well you know they not that they owe it to me,
Speaker 8: but when you put it out like that, I've told
Speaker 8: my family, I said, look undocumented, we lived in a
Speaker 8: garage for seven years and hiding. Mom has schizophrenia. You
Speaker 8: kidnapped me, grandma, I said, if you want it to be,
Speaker 8: if you wanted me to be a comedian.
Speaker 9: You.
Speaker 8: You you should have just told me. You could have
Speaker 8: just told me. I would be like, are you kidding? Yes?
Speaker 8: This was on purpose, right, Like my grandma's secretly my manager.
Speaker 8: She's like, she's like, this is a good story. She'll
Speaker 8: get on. It'll be perfect for Daily Show, This American Life.
Speaker 8: This is how you get on MPR.
Speaker 3: You're you are famous, but your grandma might rival your fame.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, with your TikTok videos and your Instagram stories. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's is family.
Speaker 8: Come on, she's a star. Oh yeah, yeah, I mean
Speaker 8: I mean also, you said she rapple with me. But
Speaker 8: can she throw vegetables into a cart with her butt?
Speaker 8: I don't know. I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Is she the person you got your funny from?
Speaker 8: She is not. She's not. Honestly, I feel like I'm
Speaker 8: raising a kid in that she's learning funny is from me.
Speaker 8: Actually yeah, yeah, I mean she's silly, she's you know,
Speaker 8: I feel like she felt like she got the permission
Speaker 8: to finally be silly later in her life because she
Speaker 8: was always a caretaker. You know, she raised me. She
Speaker 8: looks after my mom still too, who has schizophrenia. And so,
Speaker 8: you know, when I was like, can we do these videos?
Speaker 8: Would you want to join? She's like, yes, are you serious?
Speaker 8: Really for real? Like, you know, and to see her
Speaker 8: like lightening up for the first time in her life
Speaker 8: that it's really cool, you know, like yeah, being like
Speaker 8: we could do this at a grocery store. Yeah, I
Speaker 8: can dance.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we should all be doing that at a grocery store. Yes, yes, yeah,
Speaker 3: actually my husband should be doing that at the grocery
Speaker 3: store because he's the one who does.
Speaker 8: All the shop.
Speaker 3: That's right, you should go get it on her.
Speaker 8: That's right. Give mother, Yeah, give mother a moment to
Speaker 8: have fun too.
Speaker 3: That's right, that's right. You you spoke about getting into
Speaker 3: comedy through watching Margaret Show DVDs as a kid, and
Speaker 3: then she crowned you as her heir recently, right right,
Speaker 3: New York Times Magazine. How did that feel?
Speaker 8: Oh my, oh it's great. I grew up watching her
Speaker 8: and now we're friends. And then now she's like, if
Speaker 8: you if someone were to replace me, you said, with
Speaker 8: this bull cut, So I feel like, I mean, it's
Speaker 8: kind of like a crown already, you know. I was like,
Speaker 8: I'm ready, I'm ready to girl, exactly right. You deserve it.
Speaker 3: I want to talk about your bowl cut, though, because
Speaker 3: you did it. I don't think you should change a thing.
Speaker 3: But you did talk about wanting to change your haircut,
Speaker 3: but that you can't because this is now your brand.
Speaker 8: Is that true? I mean yeah, kind of. I mean,
Speaker 8: does Dora the Explorer change her?
Speaker 9: You know what I mean?
Speaker 8: Does?
Speaker 3: I think? For the record, I think this suits you beautifully.
Speaker 3: But we did ask our graphics team to mock up
Speaker 3: a few just to spitball some ideas. So this is
Speaker 3: your gorgeous look as is.
Speaker 8: Okay, this beautiful bowl cut. Okay, okay, it scares.
Speaker 3: This is the Rachel cut.
Speaker 8: That that's scary. That is scary. Who is she?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 3: The Leslie Bibb White Lotus box that's giving.
Speaker 8: The only thing is so much forehead. I'm so shy.
Speaker 3: I'm so sure Rocket.
Speaker 8: I do think you forgot to join my third eye.
Speaker 3: This is my personal favorite. The Princess Leiah.
Speaker 8: Oh yes, oh my god, very much.
Speaker 3: I think you can. I think you're can pull any
Speaker 3: of them off. But I will tell you I I
Speaker 3: think you're what you're, what you've got going on right
Speaker 3: now is perfect.
Speaker 8: Should change a thing.
Speaker 3: Oh, you can think about anything. Major, congratulation everything. I'm
Speaker 3: so happy for you. Thank you for being here. Father
Speaker 3: premieres on Hulu June thirteenth.
Speaker 8: And for Morning.
Speaker 1: Rank right back up here.
Speaker 5: Did you ever play an instrument?
Speaker 4: I played, like very short periods of time, the flute.
Speaker 8: Would you believe it? Did you like it? I had
Speaker 8: flute lessons.
Speaker 4: That's the first person that ever asked me that crazy question.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I had flute, Could you believe it?
Speaker 4: I could have been a flutist.
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