One of Donald Trump's staunchest supporters
during his time in office was William Barr.
Remember him? He was the attorney general
and less friendly Jabba the Hutt.
But what's interesting is that now that Trump is out of office,
and Barr has a book to sell, well, he's suddenly not a fan.
No, no, he's singing a different tune.
NEWSWOMAN: Former Attorney General William Barr speaking ou
live for the first time about his volatile time
in the Trump administration and his dismantling
of the president's lies about the 2020 election.
BARR: I told them that all this stuff was bull(bleep)
and, uh-- about election fraud,
and, uh, you know,
it was wrong to be shoveling it out the way his team was.
He was obviously getting very angry about this.
I said "Okay, well, look, I-I understand you're upset with me,
And I'm perfectly happy to tender my resignation."
And then-- Boom!
-He slaps the desk? -He slapped the desk and he said,
"Accepted! Accepted. Don't go back to your office. Go home.
You're done."
After the election, he went off the rails.
He wouldn't listen to anybody except
a little coterie of-of sycophants who were telling him
what he wanted to hear.
I'm sorry, did Bill Bar say that after the election,
Trump went off the rails? That's what he said?
After the election?
So, before the election, when he was trying to nuke hurricanes
and inject bleach, that was-that was on the rails?
That was normal? You know, it-it feels like
Trump fans are a lot like Euphoria fans. You know?
They act like the thing got more extreme over time,
but really it was like that from the beginning.
Yeah, they just hit their limit.
"Oh, there is so much nudity in Euphoria these days!"
My man, it's HBO. Everything has nudity. Everything.
Euphoria, Game of Thrones. I mean, that's why I stopped
watching John Oliver. Every episode, "And now, my dick!"
You didn't have to show me your dick, John.
That didn't help me understand the opioid crisis!
And here's what all of Trump's acolytes don't understand:
He didn't become crazy. He didn't become that. No, you
just realized he was crazy when he started disagreeing with you.
Like, kamikaze pilots are not sane when they're taking off.
You're just agreeing with that part of the flight. Yeah.
"So, what time do we land? What?!"
But the point, the point is that, just like John Kelly,
John Bolton, Michael Cohen, uh, Omarosa-- remember her?--
Bill Barr has now come out and said, "Actually, guys,
Donald Trump is crazy and was not fit to be president."
Yeah. But before you get all excited
and welcome Bill Barr into the resistance,
you should probably hear his plans for the next election.
I certainly have made it clear
I don't think he should be our nominee,
and I'm gonna, you know,
support somebody else for the nomination.
GUTHRIE: But if he is the nominee and you have...
your choice is Donald Trump
or whoever's running on the Democratic side,
would you vote for him?
Uh, because I believe
that the-the greatest threat to the country
is the progressive agenda
being pushed by the Democratic Party,
it's inconceivable to me
that I wouldn't vote for the Republican nominee.
So, even if he lied about the election
and threatened democracy, as you write in your book,
-better than a Democrat. -Well, it's h... Well, it's hard...
It's hard to project what the facts
are gonna turn out to be three years hence,
but as of now, it's hard for me to conceive
that I wouldn't vote for the Republican nominee.
Yo, man, these people are wild.
William Barr literally agrees
that Trump tried to overthrow the election,
but still, he would vote for Trump
over a Democrat.
"Yeah, I mean, maybe Trump's gonna end America
"and put me in a prison camp,
"but it's better than learning new pronouns.
Am I right?"
It's actually sad how in America,
politics has turned into sports.
Right? 'Cause this is like a sports attitude.
Right? Where people have, like, this blind level of support.
You know, "You support the Knicks?"
"Yeah, I support the Knicks." "But what if they start
doing synchronized swimming, not basketball?"
"Oh, I hate that! But I'm still gonna support them, man.
"I-I'm a Knicks fan at heart, you know.
"Doesn't matter what they do on the court.
"Swimming, dancing. I'm a Knicks fan.
"I don't want to get a new jersey. It's a whole new color.
Now I got to learn new things. I'm a Knicks fan."
It's not that. It's not sports.
It's politics. You know?
He wrote... It seems like he wrote the book
about the wrong thing,
He says, "What I'm most passionate about
is fighting the progressive agenda."
Well, write a book about that.
-(laughs) -You know? I mean,
your writing teacher says to you,
"Write about what you're passionate about,"
not-not "Write what you're second most passionate about."
-You know? -That's-that's what seems to have happened here.
-He's just... -So...
They're all heroes when they leave.
-Yeah. That's easy. -"I-I told him.
I told..." No, you didn't.
-Yeah. -You were there, and then at some point,
you're like, "All right,
this guy's crazier than I thought."
And they're also all heroes when they got to push their book.
-Dude, it's always the book. -The book.
Yeah. This is what I find.
-All these people were there. -Do you mind if I just...
-if I just push my book real quick? -Oh.
Oh, I don't have a book. But...
-Oh, if you did... -I was practicing. I was practicing.
-Oh, you did you very well, actually. -Thank you.
Yes. My Time at The Daily Show: Why I Hated Trevor Noah.
(chuckles) When I... How I Resigned on Air.
(laughs) "I used to tell him on that show,
'Ooh, let's move on,' I used to tell him."
All right, let's move on
to some news about Andrew Cuomo,
the disgraced governor of New York
who was never a guest on The Daily Show!
If you see pictures of that, it's a lie.
Cuomo, you might remember,
was at the center of a whole bunch of scandals.
There was his history of sexual harassment,
his shady handling of the early COVID pandemic,
and he abused the power of his office
by making people watch all those PowerPoint presentations.
But now, just seven months after being forced to resign,
Andrew Cuomo has decided that he's served enough time.
Former Governor Andrew Cuomo's first public appearance
since leaving office has some wondering
if he's considering a political comeback.
Cuomo spoke Sunday at God's Battalion of Prayer Church
in Brooklyn. During his remarks, the former governor repeatedly
took aim at cancel culture,
which Cuomo says forced him out of office.
Don't underestimate the strength and the virulence
of the cancel culture. They broke my heart.
But they didn't break my spirit.
(applause)
I want to take the energy
that-that could make me bitter
and use that energy to make us better.
Okay, okay. First of all, pretty slick move
delivering that speech in church. Yeah.
Because people have to forgive you even if they don't want to.
Yeah, Jesus says so.
And secondly, let's agree on something, people.
Let's agree on this, please, can we agree on this
once and for all? Getting canceled
is not the same thing as getting investigated
for sexual harassment. All right?
"Canceled" is when people yell at you on Twitter
for, like, a joke. When you're getting canceled,
you can put your phone on airplane mode and keep moving.
That's not what happened to Andrew Cuomo. Right?
That wasn't the woke police, that was the police-police.
It's a big difference. "Oh, I was canceled."
No, hey, my man, this is a crime.
Everyone just uses that. "Aw, I was canceled."
What were you doing? "Aw, I kidnapped some people.
(scoffs) Cancel culture's out of control."
It feels like these days people can blame
literally anything on cancel culture.
"Mommy, wh-why is the fish upside down in the bowl?"
"Oh, cancel culture, Timmy. Yeah, that fish is gone now.
So sorry about it,"
I guess, in many ways, this comeback effort
is classic Andrew Cuomo, though.
Nobody asked him to come back,
but he's gonna make a move anyway. Yeah.
People are like, "We don't want you back, Governor." He's like,
"It's fine, I'm Italian. Let's kiss on the mouth.
-Mwah, mwah, mwah." -(Kosta laughs)
I... You know, I don't think he's running.
I think... since he lost his job
-and since his brother lost his job... -Uh-huh.
I think they're living together,
on the bunk beds and he just wants to get out of the house.
Didn't it kind of feel like he was just happy to get out?
-It does seem like that. -Yeah. I...
He's blaming cancel culture for everything the way that
-I use "supply chain." That's my... -Oh.
You know, "Hey, I called you ten times, you didn't call me back."
I did call you back.
There must be a supply chain issue. you know?
My wife was like, "I love you." You know, "You don't
say it enough." I said, "Look, that's a supply chain question.
You know?" I don't know
if I can just-- So...
You know what's funny is we don't understand
the supply chain enough
to know how to argue back against.
-Right. -That's actually a brilliant thing.
-Any problem: supply chain, yeah. -Supply chain.
I'm gonna say that next time the landlord comes.
-"Trevor, you haven't paid the..." -Yeah.
-"S... The... supply chain. -I was in the elevator,
someone's like, "Can you hit number 12?" And I'm like,
"Yo, supply chain. I can't do that." You know?
-That was brilliant. -Yeah.
Wait, wait, wait, I asked you
about my birthday present and you said "supply chain."
-Was that the same thing? -It's been...
Look, it...
Supply chain's been a problem for a lot a--
-long time. (laughs) -(laughs)
All right, finally,
do you guys remember that Canadian trucker protest
that shut down the border
and forced you to learn the capital of Canada
a few weeks ago?
Yeah, you probably remember it.
Where the truckers blocked the streets for weeks
to show their outrage over COVID vaccine mandates
and other Canadian government tyranny,
like free health care and education.
Anyway, some Americans saw what happened in Canada
and they said, "Hey, we have trucks, too.
-Why not do that here?" -(horn honks)
But, sadly,
the result has been less impressive.
A caravan of pro-Trump, antivaccine truckers
modeled after the Canadian freedom convoy
has reached the nation's capital.
The People's Convoy traveled across the country
to reach Washington, D.C.,
starting in California last month.
The caravan planned to circle the capital several times
and then return to their home base in Maryland,
but a number of them were sort of-- were frustrated
by the traffic on the Beltway,
of course, surrounding Washington D.C.
and did not complete the laps they had hoped.
The protest slowed down traffic a little,
but the truckers did not know
that the Beltway is like that all the time.
So the protest ended up having a far smaller impact
than the Canadian protest that inspired it in our states.
Aw, man, this is just sad.
American truckers were trying to block traffic,
but D.C. already has so much traffic
that nobody really noticed they were protesting.
And, I mean, let's be honest--
a protest isn't much good
if it's too subtle for people to know it's a protest.
Yeah. It's like if Rosa Parks bravely decided
to sit in the middle of the bus--
just wouldn't be the same.
Yeah, the bus driver would be at the front like,
"Is that Black woman sitting...
Ah, whatever."
Also, I bet when these truckers planned the driving protest,
they didn't think that gas was gonna hit $5 a gallon.
Yeah, that's a horrible time to be driving as your protest,
because now they're praying
the cops tow them away just to save on gas.
"Do you see what I'm doing?
"What, you want to tow me back home?
"Please, man, I need you to tow me back home.
I didn't plan this part."