Prime Minister Mia Mottley: Climate, Immigration, and the Power of Small Nations

What Now? with Trevor Noah

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🗓️ 20 January 2026

⏱️ 95 minutes

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In this very special bonus episode that’s as smart as it is fun, Trevor goes one-on-one with Barbados' Prime Minister, Mia Mottley. Between lessons on Bajan slang, "road tennis" Olympic dreams, and big ideas on global finance, climate change, and managed migration, Mottley proves she’s a force of nature—though even she can’t score Trevor an invite to Rihanna’s next birthday bash.

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0:00.0	I've always noticed it, but I've never, I've never thought to myself, it seems so obvious now, but I've
0:10.0	never thought to myself, oh yeah, you can't tell Rihanna's story without talking about Barbados.
0:15.0	Exactly.
0:15.6	The music, the way she sees the world, the way she interacts with the world, the fact that she's still,
0:20.9	you know, a citizen of Barbados, like all of these things inform how she goes.
0:25.8	And that she still has a Beijing accent.
0:28.2	That's true.
0:29.0	Yeah.
0:29.9	So if I said that phrase to her, she'd know what it means.
0:31.9	Of course.
0:32.7	So, wait, how do I say it?
0:33.9	You still have a...
0:34.9	No, the fair.
0:35.5	The fair.
0:35.8	How do you say the phrase? Oh, dying fair.
0:37.9	Dying fair.
0:38.3	You've got to treat people fairly.
0:39.7	But you said dying fair. Dying fair. Dian fair. I'm going to work on. But you have a good Beijing accent already. I'm working with yours. Dying fair. I'm going to learn it. I'm just going to say to people dying fair, and I'm going to get there.
0:50.4	Rihanna, you didn't invite me to your party, dying fair.
0:52.5	Exactly.
0:53.0	Yeah, now we're on.
0:54.1	Now we're on.
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