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Elon Musk gets marked as spam,

Russia and America share friendship bracelets,

and Trump sticks a foot in his mouth. But for once, it's not his own.
So let's get right into it. I'm going to come.
Let's kick things off with the war in Ukraine. Donald Trump promised he could secure a peace deal within one day of taking office, which means he is now negative 34 days ahead of schedule.
Good work, sir. As we know, the Ukraine war began in 2022 when Putin invaded Ukraine on three separate fronts while launching missile attacks on Ukrainian cities.
Or as Donald Trump puts it... President Trump has made a series of false assertions blaming Ukraine for starting the war.

You should have never started it.

You could have made a deal.

That's an interesting interpretation

in that it's not what happened.

In fact, it's the exact opposite of what happened.

And this has set off alarm bells for a lot of conservatives,

including Brian Kilmeade, Trump's buddy and the Joey Tribbiani of Fox and Friends. He tried to gently push back when Trump started to blame the destruction of Ukraine on President Zelensky.
You have a man who's led a country that had the most beautiful cities that they're demolished, had the most beautiful domes. Those domes are the most beautiful in the world.
But that's Russia's fault, though, Mr. President.
Russia did the... They're all demolished, 1,000-year-old domes, and everything's demolished.
But, Mr. President, that's Vladimir Putin's fault.
Don't you agree? I get tired of listening to it. He makes it very hard to make deals.
But look what's happened to his country. It's been demolished.
But, no, no, I hear. He's going to go back.
Mr. President, but you know who's blamed for that.
Don't you think it's Vladimir Putin that did the invasion unwarranted to try to take back land he had no right to? And don't you think fundamentally that's that? And if you could just get now both sides want to talk, it seems. So we should just get to that point? They only want to talk because of me.
But this is how off the rails Trump is. His beloved Fox News is saying, Mr.
President, you sound crazy, and I believe DEI causes tornadoes. And he's right, not about the DEI causing tornadoes.
We all know trans people cause tornadoes. But about this war, under Donald Trump, America has fully taken Russia's side, which means, are we the bad guys now? Well, that didn't answer that.
But I think we might be the bad guys.

It's not just Republicans who are alarmed.

The entire continent of Europe is freaking the f*** out.

If the United States will help Russia take over Ukraine, who's next?

Poland? Latvia? Slovenia? Slovakia? Albania? Estonia?

Yeah, I got a 97 in AP Geography.

Thank you. Thank you.
I would have gotten a hundred, but I misspelled my name. So yesterday, Europe tried to get Trump back on its side by sending over its most charismatic Trump whisperer, Emmanuel Macron of France.
And right from the start of that meeting, you could really see how he let his scar down. By the discussion on the critiques miners that are finalizing.
That is the most beautiful language. I have no idea what he's saying, but that is the most elegant, beautiful language.
Yeah, Trump just loves a French accent, probably because it's the native tongue of his hero, Pepe Le Pew. Something about that pervert skunk that Trump finds so relatable.
But Macron's accent gives him a lot of leeway to gently correct Trump every time he spews bullshit.

I mean, this war costed all of us a lot of money.

And this is a responsibility of Russia because the aggressor is Russia.

Europe is loaning the money to Ukraine. They get their money back.
No, in fact, to be frank, we paid. We paid 60 percent of the total effort.

And it was through, like the U.S., laws, guarantees, grants, and we provided real money. Look at him.
Look at that smile. The guy is smitten.
Usually if someone confronts him about being wrong, he takes away their security detail. But he's letting Macron do whatever he wants.
I think a sexy accent is his kryptonite. I assumed it was vegetables, but...
To be fair, it's not just Macron. Trump was swooning over anyone with a sexy accent.
I want to know what is your idea about Italy.

If you want to make the same thing.

Can you talk a little louder?

You have a beautiful voice, but you're not

in these days. Where are you from?

Italy. From Italy?

Oh, I love Italy.

Oh, Italy.

Italy. I love that restaurant

with the grocery store attached.

Oh, now. I love it.
So good. Now tell me, which section are you from? Formaggio? Produce? Self-checkout? By the way, Trump is the only person on Earth who has ever asked an Italian person to talk louder.
Of course, as we saw last week, not every

accent does it for him. Sometimes it just confuses him.

Mr. President, people in India would be welcoming your decision to extradite the

Habbo Rana to... I can't understand a word he's saying.

Dude, come on. If you don't understand what someone is saying, don't be rude and dismiss them.

Just laugh and go, oh my God, that's so crazy. Like a normal person.

I mean, is Trump sure that he wants to be president?

Because this is the worst job in the world if you don't understand accents.

It's like working as an escort if you're still not 100% sure which hole it's supposed to go in.

Although, would that actually make you a great escort?

I guess we'll never know.

By the way, if you're wondering how tough Indian accents are for Trump, he had to get a translator for it.

Not for the language, for the accent.

It is evident that how the deep state of the United States was involved with regime change.

So what is your point of view about the Bangladeshi?

And what is the role that the deep state made in this situation?

I can't believe Doge is going around looking for inefficiencies.

Meanwhile, Trump has an English-to-English translator.

But if you do have to have a translator for accents,

why does the translator also have an accent?

Maybe the plan was to have a string of translators with slightly less of an accent until they finally got to something Trump could process? Eventually, it'll just be the word Bangladesh written across the boobs of a swimsuit model. Oh, now I get it.
Anyway, back to Macron. Now, you might think that it's not wise for Europe to hinge its survival on the seductive power of Macron's accent, but Trump himself admitted that it works.
I just want to fill you a little story. So we were at the Eiffel Tower having dinner with your wonderful wife and with my wonderful wife, and we came out, and he started speaking the French deal.
And we didn't have an interpreter, and he was going on and on and on, and I was just nodding, yes, yes, yes. And he really sold me out.
Because I got back the next day and I read the papers. I said, that's not what we said.
He's a smart customer, I will tell you. Hold on.
Hold on. Forget the accent.
What was going on with that handshake? Are they doing the, no, you hang up, but with their hands? Before we figure out Russia and Ukraine, we need a peace deal for the world's weirdest thumbworm. So maybe this isn't going to come down to words at all, because if you've noticed how Trump and Macron interact, their hands alone tell a story.
les mains. Elles tirent, elles empoignent, elles repoussent.
Mais les mains peuvent aussi

se rejoindre. Des mains tendues, qui me touchent, qui vous touchent.
Le monde world, in your hands.

Great deal.

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Elon Musk emailing over two million federal workers with this subject line. What did you do last week? It simply asked them to list five things they accomplished at work and says not replying by midnight tonight would be taken as a resignation.
Ah, the hallmark of a good boss. He gives you busy work that also makes you scared.
This is such an insane idea. Just for starters, let's say everyone does respond.
Who the is going to read 2.4 million emails? I say this as someone. I say this as someone who has an inbox with 2.4 million unread emails.
someone

I say this as someone who has an inbox with 2.4 million unread emails. It is too many emails to f***ing read.
Hey Pottery Barn, if you tell me about one more throw

pillow sale I will kill myself and the blood will be on your hands also on your

throw pillows. Don't f***ing test me.
And I know you gave my email to William Sonoma. Anyway, as shocking as this may be, federal workers do not seem very happy about being sent threatening emails and they're making their voices heard in unusual ways.
I want to ask you about a fake video that was somehow hacked onto the TVs at the housing and urban development offices this morning in D.C. It's pretty graphic, so we're not going to show it here on Top Story.
It essentially shows the president, again, this was an AI image, kissing Elon Musk's feet.

He's right. He's right.

An AI video of Trump kissing Elon Musk's feet is disgusting. It's inappropriate and it's disrespectful.
It should not be on TV. Let me just show you why it should not be on TV.
Look at that. Look at how inappropriate this fake video of the president slobbering all over Elon Musk's foot knobs is.
So inappropriate. And that is why we will never be showing this to you.
It's called journalistic integrity. Thank you.
Although it has to be said that making that video and hacking the screens took a lot of work, and I really hope whichever federal employee did it included that in their list of five accomplishments. I definitely feel bad for the guy in the HUD office who learned about his latent foot fetish in the worst possible way.
Oh, no. Oh, no.
And it wasn't just the rank and file who pushed back on Elon's ultimatum. Some of Trump's own cabinet members told their departments the email wasn't official.

Kash Patel told the FBI, don't respond to that email.

Tulsi Gabbard said, don't respond to that email.

Pete Hegseth responded to that email saying, you up?

That was irrelevant.

But all this infighting is confusing. Can someone please clarify the situation here? Mr.
President, do people have to answer this email or not? Can you clarify, hopefully once and for all, what your expectations are with this email to federal employees? It's somewhat voluntary, but it's also if you don't answer, I guess you get fired. Oh, great.
Yeah, that clears up everything. It's voluntary, but if you don't answer it, you're fired.

Okay.

At this point, the only thing more confusing than that email is that AI video that is totally inappropriate for television.

I mean, they gave Elon two left feet.

Weird and gross.

And that's why we will not be showing it to you.

It's called moral courage. Moral courage.
Now look, you would expect some pushback within the federal government, but the surprising thing is there's also some pushback from outside the federal government. From Georgia to Oregon to Kansas, Americans angry with President Trump's sweeping layoffs and Elon Musk's drive to slash government spending, packing raucous town halls.
Elon Musk has contracts with the federal government. Conflict.
He's done some very good things. I think.
Do your job! Do your job!

How do you feel about a unelected, non-deferred. I'm one of the checks and balances of our nation.
Great question. I'm glad you asked it.
Oh. Oh.
Man, that last guy was so ready to get mad, he didn't even wait for the answer. I have a question! You suck! Oh! Now, look, personally, I'm glad to see people pushing back against Doge.
But even if you support Doge, you have to acknowledge that seeing real people voicing their opinion to their

elected representatives is a lot better than seeing Trump going to town on Elon's feet.

It's just disgusting. It's disgusting.
And you will never see that video here. You won't.

Instead, we're going to have some serious analysis about this counter movement to Doge.

So let's go to Doge headquarters with Michael Kosta.

Thank you, Doge.

People are not happy with Doge.

Yeah, that's right, Desi.

But Doge has to take a lot of the blame for the backlash. They're not handling these layoffs with enough care and finesse.
Let me explain through the use of a visual aid. Let's say this foot represents the federal government.
You got to be gentle, right? You can't go in whole hog. You gotta start the layoffs with a light little...

pet.

You see what I did there, Desi?

That was me laying off 50 NIH researchers,

and you know what?

I think they liked it.

Yeah, see, I see what you're saying.

It's not what you cut, it's how you cut it.

Exactly.

You can't go from zero to 100 like this. See what I mean? That is not how you do it.
It's too overwhelming, and it puts too much pressure on the workforce. Oh, tell me about it.
I've been laid off before, and it is always too sloppy. Yeah, you don't want sloppy, Desi.
And you can't just focus on the top departments, either. Most of the waste takes place at the lower levels of the government, so you gotta work both.
Like, this, this is... This is how you do it.
This is how you do it. Absolutely.
Absolutely. And I got to say, I have never seen you look more professional.
Where did you learn so much about government? Was that at college? Oh, no, I worked at Payless. The point is, you have to pay attention to the whole of the federal government.
Then once you've properly covered all the sensitive parts, that's when you bring in the other foot. Oh, my goodness gracious.

Wait, hold on.

So if one foot represents the federal government,

what does the other foot represent?

Oh, this foot's just a sex thing.

Oh, gotcha.

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My guest tonight is a beloved comedic actor known for her work in Reno 911, Bridesmaids, and The Goldbergs.

She now stars in St. Dennis Medical on NBC.

Please welcome Wendy McClendon Covey. I'm all horny now that I've watched all that foot action.
Yes. My goodness.
Who doesn't love a little foot action? Anyone that says otherwise is a big fat one. Liar.
Liars. I am so happy you're here.
I'm so happy

to be here. I'm such an enormous fan

of yours. Everything you do, I mean

Bridesmaids,

biggest comedy of all time.

Goldberg,

which was on for ten whole seasons.

Reno 911,

which was on for...

We got a little

revival right before COVID, so we knocked out two more movies and a few more episodes. I mean, that was like a 20-year span.
What is the... Isn't that crazy? Being that I'm so young.
Impossibly. But what is the secret? What's in the secret sauce for how to have such great longevity with these projects?

I wish I had an answer for you.

I'm just really, really lucky, and I worship the devil.

That's all it is.

That's all you gotta do.

That's all it is.

Well, no problem.

Sign me up.

No problem, you guys.

No, I've been lucky.

Well, maybe the secret sauce is you.

That's probably the truth. You say such things, Desi.
Let's be best friends. Okay.
You started at the Groundlings. I did, yes.
You were in the main company. I was.
And the Groundlings, if you don't know, is a famous improv theater that is responsible for breeding just the top comedy talent of all time. Just about everybody on SNL comes from either The Groundlings or Second City.
And yeah, I was lucky enough to do that for seven years. How did that training prepare you for your comedic journey, all these roles that you play? Well, the great thing about improv is that you are never supposed to deny anything.
So if you approach, I mean, even sales, if you're in sales or, you know, anything where you have to deal with the public, if you just approach it from a place of, yes, and I can do this for you, or yes, and I cannot do this for you, but I can do this. Oh, hello.
Yes, and that cup. Improv.
Yeah. You had planned on doing that.
Poetry. Yeah.
That was a planned little stunt that I thought I'd pull out here. They taught stunt work at the ground lanes.
I got to witness your improv skills on a tiny little project that we did many years ago that never saw the light of day. You were a baby.
Yes. You were a kitten.
That's what we'll go with. Yes, no.
We'll go with that. She was so young.
As were you. Right.
But this project had, it was you and Jane Lynch and Sam Pancake, Jack Plotnick. It was all improvised.
Right. Kind of like a curb your enthusiasm.
Yeah. And it was only like two days of filming.
But that was such a master class for me to get to watch you and Jane show up to the party, be a good improviser, a great listener, but like show up with the goods. It really was like, that was probably such a nothing thing for you, but it was very impactful for me.
So thank you. Well, you're welcome.
And you were absolutely an angel because you came in at the 11th hour. Like, literally, she was cast at, what, 9 o'clock at night? And 6 in the morning, you're on set with us.
Yeah, but that just shows that they were desperate. I was...
That's when I got on my jobs, when they were very desperate. Like, let's just hire the next person that walks in the door.
Okay, fine, she'll do. Okay, can I tell you something embarrassing about embarrassing about that job please i was so sure that that stupid show was gonna go and by the way this was a scripted show for vh1 that doesn't do scripted shows no but on the strength of that hilarious pilot i bought a, my God.
This is not a joke. I talked my husband into buying a friggin' boat, and we had to push that thing uphill for the next five years, and we couldn't even sell it.
We had to give it to someone to take it off our hands. You no longer have the boat.
Hell no. Oh, don't buy a boat, people.
Do not buy a boat. Rent a boat and rent a captain for the day.
But you don't need a boat. So they didn't talk about good investments at the Groundlings.
That was not part of the training. Never, never.
Yeah, that's too bad. Oh, my God.
Oh, my God. You bought a boat.
That's so funny. Anyway, it was a terrible show.
Yeah. It's no St.
Dennis Medical. I'll tell you that much.
Perfect segue. Yes, thank you.
Yes, and. Yes, and.
I truly, the show is so funny, and you're phenomenal in it. And I heard that you received the script the day that the Goldbergs ended.
Is that true? Yeah. In a weird twist of fate.
Yes, I did get it the same day. And I was all pouty.
And I'm looking at this script going, God, I think it's funny. I think this is funny.
I think I want to do it. But it was just in the pilot stages.
So you think, well, I should just do it because 50-50, it might not go. But it went.
But then we went on strike. Oh, that's right.
So you think, well, I should just do it because 50-50, you know, it might not go, but it went, but then we went on strike. Oh, that's right.
Yeah. So if you watch St.

Dennis, you might notice that between the first episode and the second episode, we all look a lot

different. And that's why, but it's been a blessing.
It's been so much fun. And I cannot

tell you how much respect I have for health care workers after doing this. It shows.
Incredible. It really shows in the show.
One of the things that I appreciate so much about it, it's laugh out loud funny. It's very, very funny.
But all of the characters have these huge blind spots for comedic reasons. But never are they, like, completely inept at their jobs.
Right, exactly. And so it is sort of a love letter to health care workers.
It really is. It really is.
Because when you get into health care, don't think that you're ever going to work a 40-hour week. Okay, that just doesn't happen.
And there are times when it's somebody's worst day in the world,

but you just want to go to lunch.

Yeah.

Or you really have to pee,

and you wish someone would just make a decision.

Like, they're people, too, you know?

And sometimes they're going to have a bad day,

and they should be allowed to have a bad day sometimes.

Of course.

As we all should.

But, yeah. Respect.
Respect to all of the health care workers out there. Have you had anyone come up to you? Any actual health care workers come up to you and say, thank you for making the show.
I watch the show. I do get DMs from people who say, the way you play the administrator is dead on.
Not to, you know, pat my own back there, but the very thought that you have to keep people motivated when you don't even believe what you're saying anymore. And I've had to work for people like that.
And so what do you do? You change your physicality, and maybe you might throw a fake judo move or whatever to just kind of get a smile on someone's face and all they want to do is flip you the bird. One of my favorite things about your character that I noticed is that she wears these like enormous brooches on her lapel.
She'll wear like a breast cancer research pin and then the next day it'll be a giant hummingbird that's just slightly too large for the lapel. It tells you so much about that character.
She's very, like, front-facing. Was that something that you came up with? No, but I love it for her because she is just, it's that false optimism, you know, of, hey, you guys, we're having a pizza party.
Like, we're adults. Who cares? Get that hummingbird out of my face.
Sometimes you just need a hummingbird. You know, there are some days...
It softens a lot of blows. Softens the blows.
Well, at this point, you have played a fake cop. Yes.
A fake doctor, hospital administrator, a fake mom in the 80s. Knowing your track record, this show's gonna last for 27 seasons.
I hope so, Desi. We gotta get you in there.
Yeah, sign me up. Come on.
But what is your, what do you wish to do next for a fake job? Ooh, for a fake job next, um, prostitute. Oh.
That's the one i want in on i i really think i'd be good at it yeah footwork or no footwork we'll get we'll get to it we'll get to it yes okay okay well sign me up because i'd like to buy a boat um that's what i'm in for st St. Dennis Medical airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m.
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