- "The Daily Show" presents...
- Scandals--every president's had them,
whether it's Richard Nixon breaking into Watergate
or Bill Clinton with his Oval Office BJ
or Martin Van Buren with his fake mutton chops.
You ain't fooling nobody, Marty.
We know it's a weave.
But where some presidents get famous for just one scandal,
Donald Trump has truly changed the game.
I'm Roy Wood Jr.,
and on tonight's special edition of "The Daily Show,"
we will be counting down Donald Trump's 100
Most Tremendous Scandals.
In the nearly ten years since he took his office, Donald--
It's only been four?
In the four years since he took office,
Donald Trump has had so many scandals,
they're going to have to retire his jersey
which is probably a bad idea.
That tie is going to hang all the way to the floor
and trip up players.
So join me tonight as we celebrate
all of Donald Trump's greatest scandals,
the ones you forgot and the ones you wish you could.
Let's roll, baby, 'cause the Trump train
is about to go off the rails!
Are you serious? It's only been four years?
Well, mother[bleep], it feel like ten!
Oh, my God.
♪
- President Trump expressed interest in buying Greenland.
- And he went out and bought a big yacht,
and he had a very interesting life.
I won't go any more than that because you're Boy Scouts,
so I'm not going to tell you what he did.
[crowd chattering]
- The price tag for President Trump's July 4th
salute to America is more than $5.3 million.
- Members at Mar-a-Lago
are influencing how President Trump
runs the Department of Veteran's Affairs.
- I gave him the kind of funeral that he wanted.
I didn't get thank you. That's okay.
- He's looking down, he'd be so--
Maybe he's looking up. I don't know.
- Appearing to push aside the prime minister
of Montenegro to get in front for a photo op.
- Banning residents from enrolling in
Trusted Traveler programs.
- Ripping up memos, letters,
things he's finished reading or does not like.
- Threatened to bomb sites of cultural significance,
an action that could be a war crime.
- Someone as despicable as Hitler
didn't even sink to the--
to using chemical weapons.
- Scaramucci said, "I'm not Steve Bannon.
I'm not trying to suck my own"--
- China awarded seven new trademarks
to Ivanka Trump's company.
- It will not reveal its visitor logs.
- We want to include the Congressional Black Caucus
and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
- Well, I would. I tell you what,
do you want to set up the meeting?
Do you want to set up the meeting?
Frederick Douglas is an example of somebody
who's done an amazing job
and is being recognized more and more.
You will be receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
When you wash your hands, it takes you five times longer.
You know, the water is-- You got soap.
You can't get it off. I won't talk about the fact
that people have to flush their toilet 15 times.
- Greta must work on her anger management problem.
Chill, Greta, chill!
- I think there's probably possibly drugs involved.
- I love this guy right here. - That's good.
- Blasted the FBI over the Florida school shooting.
"They are spending too much time
trying to prove Russian collusion."
- Reducing the number of mail sorting machines
and removing collection boxes.
[upbeat music]
- Before Donald Trump was in the Oval Office,
he was in business: every business.
- Gentleman, Oreos rejected my bid, so we lick-race
for it right here with Double Stuf Gold.
- That's right, our president likes his Oreos the way
he likes his pants: double stuffed.
So when Trump ran for president,
it's no surprise that he saw dollar signs.
During his campaign, candidate Trump paid businessman Trump
nearly $12.5 million for expenses like air fare,
office space and meals.
They even dropped two grand on Trump ice,
the only bottled water that's 100 percent
Angus beef.
The grift was going great
until the unthinkable happened.
- Donald J. Trump will become the 45th President
of the United States.
- Which was a problem because the president's job
is to protect and defend the Constitution or whatever,
not to get rich. [cheers and applause]
So Donald Trump selflessly promised the nation
that he would give it all up.
- My two sons are going to be running the company.
They're not going to discuss it with me.
- That's right. Trump would part
with his precious businesses,
and his only consolation:
not having to talk to his sons.
But much like those folders,
Trump's promise proved to be empty.
- The president-elect has decided he will not sell
his assets or place them in a blind trust.
- That's where things get conflicts of interesting.
♪
- As president, he's been steering government money
to his own companies for the entire time,
and that means then to his own pockets.
He spends nearly every weekend, as you know,
at one of his golf clubs.
Secret Service, they don't stay for free.
He charges them to stay there.
Federal spending records show
that taxpayers have paid Trump's businesses
more than $900,000 just since he took office.
- Getting paid for vacations?
This dude is a damn Instagram model.
According to Eric Trump,
who is officially running the family business
while daddy focuses on the good of the country,
the Trump organization only charges the Secret Service--
- You know, we charge them, like, you know, $50.
- Like, $50 a night for a hotel room.
But according to the receipts,
the real bill is more than $650
which means they're either being way overcharged,
or there's one Secret Service agent
who absolutely loves Toblerone.
But upcharging suckers
who have to stay at his property is one thing.
The big bucks are in visitors who choose to stay there
because you never know when lining a president's pockets
might be the thing to get him
to rewrite federal policy in your favor.
- We know that foreign governments are spending
money there in order to curry favor
with the President of the United States.
- The Philippines, Kuwait,
the government of Saudi Arabia,
through its lobbyists, paid for 500 nights and rooms,
and we have seen corporate clients do it too.
T-Mobile, which needs approval for a big merger
from the Trump administration,
they've spent more than $195,000 on rooms there.
- Yes, foreign governments and corporations
are greasing the Trumps' palms,
and from the looks of it,
greasing their hair and faces too.
Of course, Trump isn't the only one winning here.
The president's financial entanglements
with foreign governments have given Americans
something better than money:
the opportunity to learn what the Emoluments Clause is.
- Emolument is basically a payment.
- Yes. According to so-called lawyers
familiar with the so-called Constitution,
receiving money or gifts
from foreign governments is illegal,
but on the other hand--
- You people with this phony Emoluments Clause.
- Can't argue with that.
♪
And even if Trump loses in November,
he will still be the first president to literally rake in
billions of dollars while serving in office.
Never before has a living president
earned this many dead presidents.
- I'm really rich. - You certainly are now,
and if the national economy is lying in ruins at his feet,
at least Donald Trump finally found a business
he could be successful at.
- If you're smart and persevere,
there's a good chance you'll come out on top.
- We'll be right back with masculine toilets,
racist alligators and alternative facts
as we continue our countdown of Donald Trump's
100 Most Tremendous Scandals.
Do I have to be here for all 100 of these?
- Welcome back to this special edition
of "The Daily Show."
Question: What does it take to be the worst?
Talent? Luck?
Rudy Giuliani as your lawyer?
Donald Trump has all of these
and because of that,
he's now the most scandal-ridden president
in American history.
We at "The Daily Show" consulted
with the most esteemed historians,
political scientists and psychoanalysts
and ignored all of them and pulled this out of our ass.
We're counting down Donald Trump's 100
Most Tremendous Scandals.
Let's pick up where we left off at number 75.
♪
- This was the largest audience to ever witness
an inauguration period.
- Alternative facts.
- Whether they may have had some kind of Russian money
funneling through them to help Trump.
- Tax dollars to travel by private jet.
- The $43,000 soundproof phone booth
and a sweetheart deal on a $50-a-month
Capitol Hill rental from a lobbyist.
- $139,000 price tag for new doors.
- High-end taxpayer-funded dinners.
- A $300 million contract.
- Worked for a place that marketed a masculine toilet
for well-endowed men.
- It's a wonderful line.
I own some of it. Go buy it today.
- Kellyanne, what was my temperament yesterday?
- Very calm, no temper tantrums.
- Purging the government of perceived enemies.
- Push through Jared and Ivanka's security clearances.
- Using private e-mail servers.
- Sweetheart deal to Jeffrey Epstein.
- Abuse allegations from both of his former wives.
- The raid has continued to court political controversy
particularly with regards to the death of a Navy Seal.
- I said, "You got to clean your floors.
You got to clean your forests."
- Urging his millions of Twitter followers
to boycott an American company.
- I said, "Please don't be too nice."
- Shoot migrants in the legs,
fortifying a border wall with a water-filled trench stocked
with snakes or alligators.
- They want more people in their sanctuary cities.
Well, we'll give them more people.
We can give them a lot.
Crazy Elizabeth Warren,
or as I affectionately call her, Pocahontas.
- Obama wiretapped him in Trump Tower.
That came from a Breitbart article
that was a total conspiracy theory.
- I know nothing about Q Anon. - I just told you.
- I know very little. You told me,
but what you told me doesn't necessarily make it fact.
♪
- Nature's fury.
In September of 2019,
a storm was brewing in the Atlantic.
- Hurricane Dorian making its way to the United States,
forecasters expecting it
to make a dramatic turn to the north.
- I'm not sure that I've ever even heard of a category five.
I knew it existed. A category five is something
that I don't know that I've ever even heard
the term other than I know it's there.
- But Hurricane Dorian was nothing
compared to the tempest about to blow the roof
off the Oval Office:
Hurricane Donald.
- The National Weather Service had to scramble
to correct misinformation from President Trump about Dorian.
- President Trump tweeted...
- The National Weather Service corrected the president,
saying, "Alabama will not see any impacts from Dorian."
- Suddenly, America was caught between two claims,
but who to believe:
scientists who have dedicated their lives
to the study of weather patterns,
or a man who thinks wind
is caused by birds flapping too hard?
- This is a tough hurricane, one of the wettest
we've ever seen from the standpoint of water.
- As the people of Alabama braced for
either massive destruction or slightly overcast skies,
there was still time to avoid disaster.
All President Trump had to say was,
"Sorry, I was wrong.
The hurricane is not going to hit"--
- Alabama is gonna get a piece of it, it looks like.
It is a very, very powerful hurricane.
A great place, it's called Alabama,
and Alabama could even be in
for at least some very strong winds
and something more than that, it could be.
- That's right. Although the experts
tried to make Trump understand,
he had already boarded up his ears.
Hurricane Dorian had moved on,
narrowly missing Alabama by 600 miles,
but Hurricane Donald was just forming.
After seeing an ABC News report on his mistake,
Trump gained new strength, tweeting...
- It was a direct attack on science and also
on Twitter user Jonathan Carl,
who is a Kentucky pastor
and not ABC News anchor Jon Karl,
an innocent victim of Hurricane Donald.
Over the next 36 hours,
Hurricane Donald seemed to die down,
but then it returned...
this time with a Sharpie.
- In a White House video released Wednesday,
Trump displays a modified
National Hurricane Center forecast.
The graphic appears to have been altered with a Sharpie
to indicate a risk the storm would move into Alabama.
- I know that Alabama was in the original forecast.
They actually gave that a 95 percent chance.
- That's right. Donald Trump tried to redraw a map
with a Sharpie.
Have some respect for our intelligence.
At least learn Photoshop.
But what if the culprit wasn't Trump at all?
- That map that you showed us today looked like it almost
had, like, a Sharpie-- - I don't know. I don't know.
- It was a real mystery.
Who could have possibly taken a Sharpie to a hurricane map?
It had to be someone with an almost pathological obsession
with using the permanent markers
as if they needed their marks to be the boldest,
the loudest, the most permanent, but who?
There would be no way to know for certain.
The storm raged for days, growing in strength
until it became a category five tweet storm.
Government agencies that most Americans
had never even heard of were transformed
into hazardous projectiles by the gale.
- Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross threatened to fire
top employees at NOA on Friday after the agency's Birmingham
office contradicted Trump's claim.
- What began as one bad tweet had escalated
into a full-scale political scandal with not one,
not two, but three government investigations.
Like a Sharpie drawn on a fake path of a hurricane,
it's a scandal that simply can't be erased
all because there was a hurricane over a year ago
that had a five to 20% chance of hitting Alabama
but ultimately didn't.
Stick around.
We've got porn stars, little rocket man
and five different flavors of racism after the break.
- Welcome back to Donald Trump's
100 Most Tremendous Scandals.
Over the last four years, intrepid journalists
have exposed numerous scandals
coming out of the Trump administration,
and none of it made a bit of damn difference,
but at least we got this TV show out of it,
so let's keep going with the countdown
and continue with number 50.
♪
- President Trump says he's trying to find out
more about the whistleblower.
- He paid just $750 in federal income tax.
- Firing Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman
and Gordon Sondland.
- Why don't they go back and help
fix the totally broken and crime-infested places
from which they came?
- "Why are we having all these people
from shithole countries come here?"
- Little rocket man. - Tried to manipulate the count
by adding a citizenship question to the census form.
- Indicted or convicted six of the president's associates.
- Advised staff members
at the Natural Resources Conservation Service
to avoid saying the term "climate change."
- Syria also has a relationship with the Kurds who,
by the way, are no angels, okay?
Get that son of a bitch off the field. He's fired!
Person, woman, man, camera, TV.
- Secret Chinese bank account.
- Called American soldiers who died in war suckers and losers.
- Executive time in the Oval Office every day.
- Illegally mismanaging his charitable foundation.
- Taking intelligence given to the US by an ally,
sharing it with an adversary in the Oval Office.
- Despite the constant negative press, covfefe.
- Questionable commutations and/or pardons.
- Hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels
and Playboy model Karen McDougal.
- Two Iraqis came here to this country, were radicalized,
and they were the master minds
behind the Bowling Green massacre.
- A full-throated Trump endorsement
of accused molester Roy Moore.
- Russia offered a bounty to Taliban fighters
to kill US troops in Afghanistan.
- How did you get home?
I don't remember. How did you get there?
I don't remember. Where is the place?
I don't remember. How many years ago was it?
I don't know, I don't know. [cheers and applause]
♪
- Donald Trump is famous for being quick with an insult.
- He's going like, "I don't remember!"
- He's insulted reporters...
- I'm the president, and you're fake news.
- Senators... - Ms. Elizabeth Warren,
I call her goofy.
Crying Chuck Schumer, Crying Chuck, bunch of losers.
- And even voters to their face.
- How stupid are the people of Iowa?
- But there's one group he's been strangely
reluctant to insult: white supremacists.
- The moment that's jolted the Republican party:
Trump's response to receiving the support
of former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke.
- I don't know anything. Honestly,
I don't know David Duke.
I don't believe I've ever met him.
I'm pretty sure I didn't meet him,
and I just don't know anything about him.
- That's right. Donald Trump launched his 2016 campaign
by going full Mariah on David Duke.
- I don't know her. - Oh, please.
David Duke is the Betty White of racism.
He's been in the game forever, and everyone knows who he is.
Saying you hate David Duke
is literally the easiest thing in the world.
Even his plastic surgeon hates him.
♪
Once Trump took office, racists everywhere rejoiced.
Hate crimes skyrocketed,
and white supremacists rallied around Trump
as their new icon.
- Hail Trump! Hail our people!
- I mean, who wouldn't look at this guy
and see master race?
♪
Then in August 2017...
- White supremacists threw themselves
a terror parade in Charlottesville, Virginia
that ended in the murder
of an antifascist counterprotestor,
and Donald Trump once again
found it hard to condemn the bad guys.
- I think there's blame on both sides.
You had some very bad people in that group,
but you also had people
that were very fine people on both sides.
- That's right.
In a fight between racists and antiracists,
Trump said there were very fine people on both sides.
Amazing. It's like donating to Kanye's presidential campaign
and Taylor Swift's.
Sometimes, Trump doesn't even wait
to be asked about white supremacists.
He just finds them himself on Twitter,
retweeting accounts like WhiteGenocideTM.
Good thing they trademarked that.
It could've been stolen by some mens' hair dye.
This summer, Trump even retweeted a video
of his supporters yelling, "White power."
- It's the retweets that get you in trouble.
- You don't get a bigger honor from the president than that.
It goes retweet, pardon, medal of freedom.
But no matter how much Trump makes it clear
that he's on the same page with white supremacists,
people keep giving him a chance, just one more time,
to finally denounce them once and for all.
- But are you willing tonight to condemn white supremacists?
- Sure, I'm willing to do that.
- Are you prepared to specifically?
- Do it. - But I would say--
- Well, go ahead, then. - I would say almost everything
I see is from the left wing, not from the right.
- So then do it, sir. - Say it. Do it. Say it.
- You want to call them-- What do you want to call them?
Give me a name.
- White supremacists and-- - Go ahead.
Who would you like me to condemn?
- Proud boys.
- White supremacists and Proud Boys.
- Proud Boys, stand back and stand by.
- Okay, stand back and stand by?
That's the worst way to ever condemn something.
It's like breaking with someone
and then texting them, "TTYL!"
Seriously, Donald Trump struggles so hard
to do something so simple.
It's like he's trying to walk down a ramp
or walk down stairs
or hold his wife's hand.
Of all Donald Trump's scandals,
supporting white supremacists
should have been the easiest to avoid.
I mean, what could possibly explain
why he keeps stumbling into situations
where racists and Nazis think they have his support?
Hm, I guess we'll never know.
Don't go away because we're about to reveal
Donald Trump's top 25 Most Tremendous Scandals.
We're talking caravans, kids in cages,
a very persistent cough.
You don't wanna miss it.
- Well, here we are at the big finish,
Donald Trump's top 25 scandals,
and it's been a wild ride so far,
but let's be honest with ourselves.
There's a part of us that's going to miss Trump
when he's gone, right?
[blubbering] No.
Man, when Trump leaves, it's going to be great!
You're going to sleep better. You going to have clearer skin.
Not having to think about Trump every day,
that's going to put ten years back on your life.
Now, granted, you only going to have two weeks from the time
Trump leaves office to the time
he announces that he's running for president in 2024,
but that's going to be two relaxing-ass weeks,
and I can't wait.
But until then,
let's dive back in on our list at number 25.
♪
- Donald Trump and his father built the family's empire
by dodging taxes for decades.
It reportedly included instances of outright fraud.
- Peaceful protesters were tear-gassed.
- These aren't people. These are animals.
- Conditions at migrant detention facilities
are simply horrific.
- President Trump swiftly fires the acting attorney general.
- Fired five independent watch dogs.
- The diverting of billions of dollars
from the Pentagon budget
to fund the president's border wall.
- This is an island surrounded by water,
big water, ocean water.
- China should continue
building these concentration camps
for the mass detention of Uyghur Muslims
because President Trump thought that, quote,
"was exactly the right thing to do."
- And then we fell in love, okay? No, really.
- Disband this commission he had set up to back up
his false claims about voter fraud.
- Playing another round of golf,
and that was his 284th visit
to one of his golf clubs since taking office.
- Our media is the enemy of the people.
Somebody said I should not criticize judges.
Okay, I'll criticize judges.
- Trump has now made more
than 20,000 misleading or false statements.
- The president, who routinely skips reading
the president's daily briefing.
- I, Amy Coney Barrett--
- Russia wanted Donald Trump to win,
that his campaign was eager to accept Russia's help.
- The president said, "I need loyalty. I expect loyalty."
- Woodward pressed the president about MBS' role
in Khashoggi's murder.
Trump told Woodward, "I saved his ass."
- Another woman comes forward with another claim
about Donald Trump's behavior.
- Separating children from their families at the border.
- President Trump has been impeached.
- Frankly, we did win this election.
♪
- A global pandemic would be a crisis for any president,
but it would take Donald Trump to turn coronavirus
into not just a scandal
but one of the biggest scandals of all time.
- You can call it a germ. You can call it a flu.
You can call it a virus.
You know, you can call it many different names.
I'm not sure anybody even knows what it is.
- Trump was working on screwing up the pandemic
before there was even a pandemic to screw up.
- The Trump administration disbanded
the National Security Council's pandemic unit in 2018.
- We worked very well with that office.
It would be nice if the office was still there.
- And when the outbreak began in Wuhan,
the Trump screw-ups really began taking off.
As China tried to hide how bad things were,
Trump helped them cover it up
because he wanted a trade agreement.
- It's all taken care of,
and China is working very hard on the problem.
- That's called the art of the deal.
The next screw-up came when the virus reached America.
You have 15 people, and the 15, within a couple of days,
is going to be down to close to zero.
- Just as China was finally admitting
that this thing was more viral than a white girl
dancing on TikTok,
Trump began doing the opposite.
- This is a flu. This is like a flu.
It's going to disappear one day.
It's like a miracle. It will disappear.
You're going to have a kid with the sniffles,
and they'll say it's coronavirus,
whatever you want to call it.
- Yes, according to Trump, COVID
was something you could simply ignore like consent.
- But even though COVID was no more harmful
than just a case of the sniffly-wifflies,
he still put together a task force led by the smartest guy
he could find one office over.
This guy had lots of experience
when it comes to not handling a public health crisis.
While Trump continued to promise that COVID...
- Is going away, and it will go away,
and we're going to have a great victory.
- He did everything he could think of
to make sure it stuck around.
- So I said to my people,
"Slow the testing down, please."
With the masks, it's going to be really a voluntary thing.
You can do it. You don't have to do it.
I'm choosing not to do it. - The Trump administration
dismissed the PPE shortage
and instead encouraged reusing supplies.
- I don't take responsibility at all.
- Eventually, Trump was persuaded
to take the pandemic a little more seriously.
- I am confident that by counting and continuing
to take these tough measures--
- Even if he pretty clearly wasn't happy about it
- Okay.
- Hey, I know how you feel, Donald.
I get cranky too when a pandemic pulls me away
from my 18 hours of golf.
But before long, the second wave of screw-ups
would begin as Trump went full snake-oil salesman.
- Hydroxychloroquine.
Try it if you'd like.
And then I see the disinfectant.
Is there a way we can do something
like that by injection?
- Turns out the D in DJT stands for Doubtful,
and the J stands for, "Jesus, did he just say
that we should inject ourselves with bleach?"
- Still, his people rejoiced,
sharing the good news about why masks are bad.
- You're violating federal law.
- Back up! - Ahh!
- Showing up at his rallies without a care in the world.
- They are dying. That's true, and it is what it is.
- As the US became a global leader in coronavirus,
it seemed like the good times would never end
until it all came crashing down.
- Breaking news overnight: President Trump and First Lady
Melania Trump test positive for the coronavirus.
- At least 28 people connected to President Trump
have tested positive for COVID.
- It's a sobering reminder that coronavirus is real,
and even the most powerful people,
even the President of the United States,
are vulnerable to this terrible disease.
Nah, you can't hurt Donald Trump.
His blood is made of cheeseburgers.
- I'm immune. I could come down and start kissing everybody.
♪
- So even as Trump's first term comes to an end...
- COVID, COVID, COVID!
- His most impressive scandal keeps soaring to new heights.
- On a scale of one to 10,
how would you rate your response to this crisis?
- I'd rate it a 10.
- Well, there you have it, 100 tremendous scandals
that almost did in 244 years of democracy.
Thanks for watching, and join us again never.
Like, seriously, I can't do another four years like that.
My heart cannot take that at all.
For "The Daily Show," I'm Roy Wood Jr.
Good night.
Hey, y'all know if Trevor got any extra COVID vaccines?
I know he probably got it early.
- Friend of mine said, "You have to be the most innocent,
honorable man ever to hold the office of President."
Think of it. "You've gotta be
the most innocent ever to hold this office,"
and there's a lot of truth to that.