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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.

I'm going to come. Yesterday was a busy day at the White House.
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. 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...
But Trump has another plan to convince the haters. A charm offensive.
It's a war-torn area. We're going to take it.
We're going to hold it. We're going to cherish it.
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 boys to men song? We will take the land.
It will be ours. And we're going to make love to you like you want us to.
And I'll hold it tight, baby, all through the night. 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 hirings.
Hir. Hirings.
I didn't... Sorry.
I didn't say that right. Right.
I didn't say it right. Yeah, okay.
Okay. Sorry.
Okay. 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.

Now 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 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 going to get to see the rockets? No, son.
We're going to 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 I mean, 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 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.

Wow.

What? Wow.

I mean, you see why this guy's a genius.

You don't want an unelected bureaucrat running the country. It makes a lot of sense.
No questions here. I do have one question, though.
Isn't that you? I mean... Am I going crazy? Because it feels like I'm watching Drake sing Not Like Us at karaoke.
Like, does he not know? Is having this one unaccountable bureaucrat in charge better than having those other unaccountable bureaucrats in charge? Because at least the others have to follow transparency laws. The only thing transparent about Doge is Elon's skin.
I mean, his financial disclosure is being kept secret. Doge is exempt from open records laws.
And when someone on Twitter merely identified some of the people who work for Doge, Elon suspended their account and said, you have committed a crime, which we tried to fact check with career officials at the FBI. But they're all working at a Panera now.
So, Elon, I got to tell you, I don't think you're being that transparent. 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's 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! You know what? 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 noticed a conflict!

I noticed a conflict. Did that work? No, no, nothing happened.
There's no accountability and nothing matters. Great, perfect system.
Well, 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're saying? 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 a thousand.
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.
I'm not going to bat a thousand. So, to summarize, he's not transparent.
He has tons of conflict, he believes any lie he hears, and he spreads false rumors that go global. Honestly, I'd be pretty mad at him right now if he didn't have so much gosh darn charisma.
So, um, you know, there's crazy things, like, just cursory examination of Social Security, and we've got people in there that are 150 years old. Now, do you know anyone who's 150? I don't know, okay.
They should be on the Guinness Book of World Records. They're missing out.
So... He's old.
He's on. Tough crowd, tough crowd.
Is this thing on? Is this thing on? Anyone here from Washington, D.C.? Anyone? Are you all from Washington, D.C.? Look, if you want to see more of that kind of comedy, then don't worry, because there's a new special coming out that's just for you. Live from the Oval Office, it's the must-see comedy special that will have you dozing in your chair.
It's Elon Musk, loligarch. 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.
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Blackmailing with money? Go f*** yourself. The one thing he's not cutting is the last.

I am aspirationally, you know, aspirationally funny.

So, yeah.

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Doge, we use the HIV prevention money to pay for this.

Oh, when we come back, we find out about the man who's gonna get us into war. Don't go away.
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. Egypt's Foreign Minister, Badr Abdelahi, arrived at the State Department for talks yesterday with Secretary Rubio.
Mr. Sick.
Yep, that's me. Bet you're wondering how a fun-sized Florida boy went from this.
A 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 spiner 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 kind of 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 have pled Castro, they embraced me wholeheartedly.
I will always be the son of exile. And when they heard I was lying about that, it was too late.
I wish I would have known the date. I would have gotten it right.
I would have said they came before Castro. If you want a representative who can remember dates from history, you're going to have to find someone with a better-than-sea average.
I got a C? That's on you. Soon, I became the first Cuban-American speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, or as my future boss would say, the first Mexican.
He's like,

so funny. Next came yet another step up the social ladder.
When Marco Rubio was sworn in today,

he'll become the second youngest U.S. senator currently serving at age 39.
People are comparing

him to a young Barack Obama, as a matter of fact. So annoying.
Who is? I was in with the

Thank you. Senate are currently serving at age 39.
People are comparing him to a young Barack Obama as a matter of fact. So annoying.
Who is? I was in with the in crowd. Everybody loves me.
Soon the other kids tapped me to give the response to old man Obama's State of the Union address. Wow.
Thanks. Everything started off great but then things started to get dry.
America continues to be indispensable to the glow of global liberty.

And drier.

In the short time that I've been here in Washington...

And drier.

Then tragedy struck.

I tried to move slowly so that no one would notice, but somehow everyone noticed.

Now that's what I call equality a fool. With one sip, I went from sigma to beta.
Riz depleted. I had to do something to get my mojo back, no matter how desperate.
I announced my candidacy for president of the United States. Right away, the bitches got bitchy.
Like when I showed up for the campaign in the cutest new boots and they called them man heels

and high-heeled booties.

You see how picky I am about my shoes?

And they only go on my feet.

It's called style and glaring insecurity.

Ever heard of it?

And then the meanest girl of them

all came out of nowhere.

And he's like this. And we were

I need water.

Help me. I need water.
Help. And he's like, this is on live television.
This total choke artist. He was like pouring water.
He was sweating. I've never seen anything like it.
I thought he just got out of a swimming pool with his suit on. Oh, yeah.
Well, just like a cat, when I get wet, I get mad. And also kind of, like, mildewy.
Whatever. The point is, this kitty likes to scratch.
Donald is not going to make America great. He's going to make America orange.
Mike effin' 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-E-L-E.
Don't worry about it, Little Marco. Little mouse on him.
Bing, b-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E- I guarantee you there's no problem. I guarantee.
Oh. I was outplayed.
I went from superstar to a short, sweaty, high-heeled loser. Those heels were really up there.
You won't see me wearing them. But I wasn't ready.
It's Rubio! We get it. I was down, but I wasn't out.
Well, I was out of the presidential race. You know what I mean.
Shut up. There was only one thing left to do.

Makeover.

Something many thought would never happen.

Marco Rubio supporting Trump.

Two met on Capitol Hill yesterday.

Has, of course, endorsed Trump.

Marco Rubio and first daughter Ivanka Trump.

He has inspired a movement.

And together, we will not just make America great again.

It was pathetic.

It was embarrassing. It was so cringe.
But most importantly, it worked. Marco's a good guy, a really nice guy, and I like him.
Yes! I finally made it into the inner circle. I was one of the cool kids.
In the end, I realized it's not about being the richest or the tallest or the most popular. It's what's inside that counts.

And inside, I

have nothing. No spine,

no principles, not even

a shred of dignity. Because

all that really matters is that when you get

pushed over, you fall in line.

XOXO

Little Marco.

When we come back,

Colman Domingo will be joining me on the show.

Don't go away.

Welcome back to The Daily Show.

My guest tonight is an Emmy-winning actor

who has his second consecutive Oscar nomination

for his role in the film Sing Sing.

Please welcome Coleman They love it. Did you feel, even in that clip, we show a 13-second clip, and there's a beat, and the audience is silent, and the teardrops.
That's some top-notch action right here, Colvin DiBago. Thank you so much.
You are feeling in that moment. Oh, man, thank you so much.
It's a beautiful film. It's a film about the power of art, and when you pour it into a human being, what blossoms.
You know what I mean? Yeah. That's what it's about.
It's gorgeous. I wish you could just bottle, like, the joy and the hope that's in this film and just pass it out to everybody here right now.
I did, actually. You're all getting it as gifts.
Oh, that's great. That's great.
You're going to get one, and you're going to get one, and you're going to get one. There's a little bit of joy underneath all your seats.
It is a beautiful story, the transformative power of art. Did you have a moment for you as somebody who's been in the arts, on stage, in front camera? Like what do you think of when you you think back on that? You know, I listen, I was a very shy kid and like just a nerd.
And I just felt like, you know, I'm popular. And honestly, the moment I took a theater class and it sounds so like silly in a way, but I took a theater class and I felt like I came alive because I, you know, I started to put myself in someone else's shoes and become other characters.
And I really felt like I had a voice. And literally, I think my voice dropped into a deeper place.
And usually, even when I teach acting, every so often I would teach acting, I teach people more than anything to have a voice. I think that's the most important thing that you get out of learning theater in every single way.
So that's the gift that I was given. And that's what I like to share with other people.
And that's why this film is very important to me. Because I feel like it's just about finding your voice, finding that you have feelings, you can name them, and you can actually place them.
And actually, it does some really good work in our film. It's based on our rehabilitation of the arts program at Sing Sing Prison, where these inmates were doing theater.
And they really gained some skills that they didn't know that they even needed, and so much so that it just transformed their lives. Yeah, and a lot of the...
Many of the actors in the film were a part of this program, were formerly incarcerated. 90% of our cast are formerly incarcerated men.
Is that right? 90%?

It's remarkable.

What is it like?

What is it like collaborating with folks who are 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 who 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. All of it is 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? Exactly. I've known him for 30 years.
He's another professional actor that I know from San Francisco. So there is the meta of there's that's why I think it feels like a documentary, because there's something really real happening.
Yeah. And I feel like, you know, there's no real.
The only agenda is looking into a person's humanity and filling it with art and hope. That's the agenda of the film.
Yeah. Yeah.
You know what I found really remarkable? It's such a lovely film. It feels so...
If the right word... It feels insular in that, like, I've seen many films that take place inside a prison that have so many external plots that act on these characters.
And I think this movie lives so much within the characters. And there's a world that exists outside of it and consequences that exist within the prison itself.
But it really sits with people kind of dealing with their own emotions and how they connect. Which is so rare because usually anytime you see a prison drama or something, it's all these tropes that you see.
It's violence. It's a horror story.
Now, I'm not going to say it's not a horror story, but inside there are other people in there, people who are like trying to advocate for others who are in the law library, trying to advocate for good food or make sure their fellow inmate is ready for their parole board hearing or starting theater programs or gardening or taking care of animals and things like that and how it's having a profound effect on them. So much so, and I love to give this out because a lot of people don't know, like I didn't know about this until I started going on this journey, that there is

a 3% recidivism rate

amongst members who go through this

program compared to 60%

nationwide.

So, it's something

that works. Is that right? That's the truth,

yeah. It gives people a little bit of hope

and a connection to one another. Yeah, yeah, but

also, I'd like to say, the film is actually really

funny, too, which no one would ever believe when you think, oh, it's about inmates. You're like, it's actually really funny.
These guys are doing some... First of all, we have a whole crazy play musical that we're doing in it.
And that's based on... There's some little clips at the end.
It's based on a reel. It's based on a reel.
It's called Breaking the Mummy's Code. And you have everything in there from mummies and Freddy Krueger.
So you've got these grown men putting on a play and watching them in their antics and rolling around on the floor being silly but also it brings up these really warm feelings i feel like i know any anyone that knows who's watched it they're very surprised because they go in thinking it's going to be one thing and they walk out feeling with filled with so much hope and love for their fellow man and it's a one i think that's what we need need more warm feelings, right? We need those warm feelings. We do.
So you're going to win an Oscar for this. Do you have your speech written? No.
No? No. What do you do? Are you going to prep one? No, you can't.
You can't. I just feel like it's...
You're going to kill it. You are going to kill it, though.
I just think it's in, like, I don't know. It's something, I'm a little superstitious about that.
Yeah. Any award that I've ever won, a lot of times I'm working and I'm not able to be at an award show.
Sure. Which I always feel like, well, maybe that's good.
Because maybe I don't know, I'm going to react like a weirdo or something. Yeah.
Or I'm at the award show and literally my publicist, she literally told me, she said, you didn't expect to win, did you? I said, I don't even think about winning. I just sit and I'm happy to be there.
I'm just with a big smile on my face, hugging and kissing on people. And then I'm like, oh, wow, I got to get to the stage and say something.
But then I try to trust that I'll be in the moment and I'll try to say something loving. I'll try to say something appealing to the moment.
And that's all I can do. But I don't want to, I'm not going to be standing there like, oh, to you know first thing thank god and you know i'll thank god on my own but i feel like you know i mean that's personal yeah you might want judging people who do that but i'm just saying that like wow wow things are really dark here no no i think it's important but that's private for me for me i think i like to have private conversations, and I'll say something to appeal to the moment.
But I think, like, I'll thank you afterwards. Really? Yes.
Okay. I appreciate that.
It would mean more on stage. I will say, another fun thing, though.
Just say it. Structurally, it'd be nice for my family to see it as well.

Okay.

Note taken.

Note taken?

Good.

You're a co-chair of the upcoming Met Gala?

Yes.

So that's...

I mean...

I mean, that's a lot.

That's a lot.

I mean, does that add pressure?

Like, now, can you even go to the store anymore without thinking about, like, you need to dress...

What I look like?

No.

Yeah, I do have to... I actually, because I'm such a, I thought for a long time nobody would recognize this face.
But now they recognize it everywhere. And so I have to dress for it as well.
Because also because I've sort of, me and my stylist have been sort of slam the game when it comes to the face. I mean, it feels, it's fun to dress.
And I want to get more guys to dress. You said you wore that blue suit for me.
I did. Right? I 100% did, because people are like, oh, Coleman Domingo's coming out.
He's going to look f***ing fantastic. Get that blue suit out.
They're like, get the blue suit, no, get the extra blue suit. Good, good.
Yeah, this is me pushing boundaries. It's great, man.
But I also think that that's what it's all about. And I love the idea that this Met Gala is going to be centered on tailoring towards the black dandy.
So it's honoring black men's style throughout history. And literally, I just had a meeting at the Costume Institute, and I was blown away in an extraordinary way because it's really looking at tailoring.
There's so much more to it than one would even imagine. But it's historical.
It's also how people define themselves and redefine themselves and then how they show up in the world. And I feel like I know that I know as a black man in the world, I know that the way I show up, I mean, look at all these basketballers and stuff like that.
Everybody's stunting now when they come out because they're telling a story and they're showing how they define themselves and redefine themselves regardless of the way the world may perceive them. They're like, no, and you do that with style.
So what I'm telling you all is get a good sense of style. Thank you.
Work on it. I'm going to work on my style.

Yeah.

And thank you for the film.

It truly is.

It truly is a wonderful piece of art.

And if you have even just like just a little shout out from that stage, just even just like a quick thank you, Jordan.

It'll go.

How about a cow brunette?

One of these one of these cow brunettes.

I'll do that.

I'll take it.

100 percent.

Take it.

Sing Sing is available to watch at home. all major platforms.
Come and Domingo. We'll take a quick break.
We'll be right back after this. That's our show for tonight.
Now here it is. Your moment is that.
Let me just ask you, and maybe your last answer is a preview of, I think, what you could say here. But I want to hear why.
But do you think that calling Elon Musk a dick is effective messaging for confronting what is a potentially irreversible transformation of the U.S. government.