🔍
Trump’s Billion-Dollar Business Fail | The Daily Show - YouTube
Channel: The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
[1]
Ever since President Trump
started running four years ago,
[3]
people have been trying to see
his tax returns.
[6]
And we found out so many other
things about him in that time,
[9]
from what he does
with porn stars
[11]
to what he does with flags,
[12]
and they're not that different.
[14]
But we still haven't seen
Trump's tax returns.
[16]
No one knows why,
but everyone has a theory.
[18]
Some people think it's because
he cheated on his taxes
[20]
or because he took money
from unsavory people.
[23]
My conspiracy theory
[25]
is that he's hiding
the extra income he makes
[28]
by working part-time
at TGI Friday's.
[30]
He's like, (mimics Trump):
"Folks, today's special
[32]
"is something I invented myself.
[34]
It's called nachos."
[37]
(regular voice): Now, no one
knows, no one knows for sure
[39]
what's hiding in Trump's taxes,
but last night,
[42]
The New York Times found out
what he used to be hiding.
[45]
TV REPORTER: This morning,
a bombshell report
[47]
in The New York Times
is casting doubt
[50]
on President Trump's
self-proclaimed wealth.
[52]
The Times, reporting it has
obtained years worth
[55]
of previously unrevealed
figures
[57]
from the president's
federal income tax returns.
[60]
The real estate mogul spent at
least ten years in the red,
[63]
reporting business losses
totaling over $1 billion
[67]
from 1985 to 1994.
[70]
According to The Times,
year after year,
[72]
Mr. Trump appears to have lost
more money
[75]
than nearly any other
individual American taxpayer.
[78]
Holy shit.
[81]
For ten years, Donald Trump
might have lost more money
[85]
than any person in America?
[88]
That is crazy.
[89]
The guy who lost the most money
[91]
is the same guy who claims to be
the best businessman.
[94]
It's like finding out that
Hugh Hefner died a virgin.
[98]
I did not see that coming.
[100]
(laughter)
[102]
But this just shows
how good Trump is
[105]
at inflating his success, right,
because during some
[107]
of those years when Trump
was hemorrhaging money
[109]
and on the verge of bankruptcy,
he managed to get himself
[112]
on the Forbes
Richest People list.
[114]
When in reality,
he should have been
[115]
on the Forbes
Broke-Ass Bitch list, right?
[118]
Which isn't a real list
but I think it should be.
[120]
Yeah. 'Cause it would pretty
great if they were just once
[122]
a year, they were like,
"At number six, Craig,
[124]
his broke-ass still using
an iPhone 3."
[128]
And you might think
it's bad news for Trump
[130]
to be exposed like this,
but that's because
[132]
you're looking at all of this
the wrong way.
[135]
TV REPORTER: He lost a lot of
money over the course
[137]
of ten years if you consider a
billion dollars a lot of money.
[140]
If anything, you read this,
and you're like,
[142]
wow, it's pretty impressive
[143]
-all the things that he's done
in his life. -Right.
[145]
It's beyond what most of us
could ever achieve.
[147]
I don't know that there's
any suggestion
[149]
that he broke the law.
[150]
You know, say what you will
about Fox & Friends,
[154]
but when they're with you,
they are with you.
[157]
Ride or die.
[159]
That's a squad
I want in my life.
[160]
They'll spin any negative
into a positive.
[162]
Like, every leader
would be lucky
[164]
to have that kind of support.
[165]
If Kim Jong-un had
a Fox & Friends,
[167]
they'd be like, "This haircut
is the best one yet."
[170]
Every leader.
[171]
Hitler's Fox & Friends
would have been like,
[173]
(with German accent): "You know,
the haters are saying
[175]
"that he's a mass murderer,
and he lost the war,
[177]
"but people don't focus on
how well-traveled he was.
[179]
"Yah. All the way from Paris
to Russia in just a year.
[183]
"Yah. And Charlie Chaplin even
made a movie about him.
[186]
How many people can say that?
Yah."
[189]
(normal voice):
And here's the thing,
[190]
Fox & Friends aren't outliers.
[192]
Many Trump supporters feel
that Trump losing $1 billion
[195]
just shows how successful
he was.
[197]
You have to have a billion
to lose a billion.
[200]
And if you go to MAGA country,
you'll see that some of them,
[203]
hey think this whole story
should be thrown out.
[206]
TV REPORTER: Do you care about
Trump's tax returns?
[207]
-Not at all. I don't care
-Not at all?
[209]
about anybody's tax returns;
it's their business.
[211]
Do you care
about Trump's tax returns?
[212]
No. I don't really give
[214]
-All right. Don't curse.
-a rear end about them.
[215]
I-- That's what
I'm trying to do--
[216]
I don't care if anybody
shows it or not.
[219]
It's their personal life,
their personal business.
[221]
Leave it alone.
[223]
Okay, I hear what this guy
is saying.
[225]
It's his personal business,
just leave it alone.
[228]
I do have one question, though:
[230]
how many eggs
is this guy eating?
[232]
(laughter)
[234]
(applause)
[239]
Like, who needs to eat
that many eggs?
[243]
Is... Is he fighting
Apollo Creed?
[247]
And you know
what's most impressive,
[249]
is that's what he ordered
when he knew
[251]
there was gonna be a TV crew.
[252]
Right? He was like,
"Oh, the camera crew is here.
[255]
"Better go easy
and just order one carton
[256]
of eggs today, Billy.”
[260]
But, seriously, though,
seriously, though,
[261]
the story just shows you
[263]
how we're all totally living
in different bubbles, right?
[266]
One side hears about the story
of Trump's taxes
[269]
and they think it proves
that he's a shady loser.
[272]
The other side hears the story
and they go, "Wow.
[274]
He's so rich, he had
a billion dollars to lose."
[276]
One side says a president
should be transparent
[279]
about his finances,
the other side says
[281]
that's his private business.
[282]
One side says "I'll have the egg
white omelet for breakfast."
[286]
And the other side says, "And
I'll take all of his yolks."
Most Recent Videos:
You can go back to the homepage right here: Homepage