Elon's Email Ultimatum, French Accent Diplomacy, Feet Stuff | Wendi McLendon-Covey
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
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4.4 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Desi Lydic tackles Trump's continued defense of Russia to Fox News's dismay and his captivation with Emmanuel Macron's accent, despite the French president's attempts to sway him. She dives into the recent failures of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, including the “DOGE ultimatum” issued to federal workers via email. Plus, as government workers protest, Michael Kosta unpacks the symbolism in an AI-generated video circulating of Trump and, uh, Musk’s toes.
Actor Wendi McLendon-Covey joins Desi Lydic to discuss how her improv background prepared her for a career in comedy and the improvised sitcom pilot they worked on together years ago that led to a misguided boat purchase. McLendon-Covey also talks about the increased appreciation for healthcare workers she’s gained from playing a hospital administrator on the new NBC show “St. Denis Medical,” and the next fake profession she'd like to play.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
| 0:06.8 | From the most trusted journalists at Comedy Central, |
| 0:10.8 | it's America's only source for news. |
| 0:14.1 | This is The Daily Show with your host, Desi Lydens. |
| 0:18.4 | Thank you. is Eli Leiden. Welcome to the daily show. I'm Jackie Leidick. We've got so much to talk about tonight. |
| 0:38.1 | Elon Musk gets marked as spam. |
| 0:40.3 | Russia and America share friendship bracelets |
| 0:42.5 | and Trump sticks a foot in his mouth. |
| 0:44.8 | But for once, it's not his own. |
| 0:46.7 | So let's get right into it. |
| 0:55.8 | I'm going to come. |
| 1:02.0 | Let's kick things off with the war in Ukraine. |
| 1:06.5 | Donald Trump promised he could secure a peace deal within one day of taking office, |
| 1:10.0 | which means he is now negative 34 days ahead of schedule. |
| 1:11.5 | Good work, sir. |
| 1:18.3 | As we know, the Ukraine war began in 2022 when Putin invaded Ukraine on three separate fronts while launching missile attacks on Ukrainian cities. |
| 1:21.0 | Or as Donald Trump puts it, |
| 1:23.0 | President Trump has made a series of false assertions blaming Ukraine for starting the war. |
| 1:27.9 | You should have never started it. You could have made a deal. |
| 1:33.3 | That's an interesting interpretation in that it's not what happened. In fact, it's the exact |
| 1:38.6 | opposite of what happened. And this is set off alarm bells for a lot of conservatives, |
| 1:43.4 | including Brian Kilmead, Trump's buddy and the Joey Tribiani of Fox and Friends. |
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