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Trump's Christmas Gift to the Poor: Tax Hikes: The Daily Show - YouTube
Channel: The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
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Thanksgiving is over.
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Leftovers have been eaten.
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That weird cranberry sauce
has been stuck
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back in the can for next year.
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And the turkey
that President Trump pardoned
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has robbed a liquor store,
killing two people.
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You pardoned the wrong bird,
Donald!
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And with that all behind us,
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it's time to look forward
to the next big holiday.
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We're going to give the
American people a huge tax cut
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for Christmas.
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Hopefully,
that will be a great, big,
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beautiful Christmas present.
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Boo!
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You promised us a wall! Boo!
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(laughter)
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Donald Trump is such
a divorced dad.
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He spends his whole year
golfing, breaking his promises,
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and then he thinks
he can just buy our love
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with one big Christmas present.
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-I hate you, President Dad!
-(laughter)
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But that's basically
the big plan
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for the president and Congress.
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In just the three weeks between
now and their Christmas break,
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they're planning to push through
a massive tax bill
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with almost no debate.
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And the question is, what's in
this Christmas package?
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Is it something that everyone
wants, like Fingerlings?
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-Or something nobody wants, like
super gonorrhea? -(laughter)
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And the answer depends
on what kind of person you are--
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human or corporate.
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Corporations and the wealthy
will see the biggest tax cuts.
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NEWSWOMAN: While the corporate
tax cuts would be permanent,
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the tax cuts
for American taxpayers
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would expire after ten years.
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NEWSWOMAN:
Low-income Americans
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would start seeing
their taxes go up in 2021,
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and by 2027, all individuals
making $75,000 or less
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would pay more
than under current law.
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Okay, so it makes sense--
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corporations get
to pay less forever,
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and poor people get to pay less
for four years,
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and then they pay more. Yes.
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Which sounds bad,
but it's actually fine,
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because once
Obamacare is repealed,
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poor people will all be dead,
so it works out. Yeah? Yeah?
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I think that's the logic.
I don't know how this works.
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And by the way,
it's pretty convenient
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that average Americans
won't be seeing those tax hikes
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until after the next elections.
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That's really slick. Right?
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Like, how can they
expect people to vote
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before people know
what they're actually getting.
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It's like having to rate
your Uber driver
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before you get in the car.
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He's just like,
"Give me five stars, man."
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"Can you unlock the door?"
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"Hey, there's no puke
in the back seat.
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Just give me the five stars!"
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Now, of course, those numbers
are merely the reality.
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But what do the bill's
supporters pretend will happen?
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This tax reform bill
will spur economic growth
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in our country.
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If we are able to lower
the highest corporate tax rate
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in the world from 35% to 20%
and make it permanent,
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the jobs of the future
will be created here at home.
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This is about making the
business tax system competitive,
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which is about creating jobs.
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And-and the first new job
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will be prying my jaw open
so I can speak normally.
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(laughter)
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Rrr...
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This is weird to me.
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They want to help
ordinary people,
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so they're giving money
to corporations,
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because maybe, eventually,
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it will get down
to ordinary people?
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That's so roundabout.
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It's like saying
if you're hungry,
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why go out to a restaurant
when you can just sew yourself
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to the back
of a human centipede?
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Why... yeah,
why waste your time?
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-WOMAN: Oh, my God.
-Now, the other thing
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about the Republican tax bill
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is that it would add
at least $1.4 trillion
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to the national debt.
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And you may remember,
when Obama was president,
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Republicans
constantly accused him
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of increasing the debt.
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Like he was spending
America's money on Jordans.
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...the transcendent issue
of our era,
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which is deficit and debt.
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Until we fix that problem,
we can't fix America.
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-♪ ♪ -Washington's
unsustainable spending
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is driving the nation's
permanent plunge into debt.
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We face a crushing
burden of debt,
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which will take down
our economy.
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Ooh, it must be real
because of the music.
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(laughter)
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Every single time this happens.
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Every single time
they say they hate something,
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and then they go and do the
thing that they said they hate.
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Right? 'Cause now
it turns out that, what,
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they're secretly deficit freaks?
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Yeah? It's almost like how
when you hear a conservative,
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uh, going hard
against gay people.
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You know?
And then it turns out
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he was going hard
against gay people.
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(laughter, applause)
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It's the same thing
over and over again.
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You know what
it makes me wonder?
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What else have Republicans
just been pretending to hate?
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Like, right now I wouldn't
be surprised if we find out
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that all Republicans
are secretly black.
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-You know?
-(laughter)
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Just, like,
when the camera turns off,
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Mitch McConnell's like,
"(bleep)."
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(laughter)
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So now...
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we're just a few days away
from this major decision.
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And here's the only way I think
average Americans can stop Trump
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from handing massive tax cuts
to the super rich.
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You have to tweet
directly to Donald Trump
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and remind him
that Obama is super rich,
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so he's gonna get
the biggest tax cuts of all.
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(applause, cheering)
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Yeah.
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And I promise you, within
an hour of seeing those tweets,
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Trump will be like,
"Destroy the rich.
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"Socialism for all.
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"Me and Bernie, 2020, folks.
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-(laughter, applause)
-We're doing it all."
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