TDS Time Machine | Presidents Meet Congress
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
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🗓️ 3 March 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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As President Trump prepares to address a joint session of congress at the start of his second term, take a look back at The Daily Show's coverage of America's last three presidents' first congressional addresses.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
| 0:03.0 | February 25th, 2009. |
| 0:08.0 | From Comedy Central's World News Headquarters in New York, this is the daily show with John Stewart. |
| 0:15.0 | Let's begin with a big story. Last night, President Barack Obama's not State of the Union address. Yes, the president's |
| 0:22.1 | first speech to a joint session of Congress after being sworn in is not technically a state |
| 0:26.1 | of the union address, which is nice because this is probably one year you do not want to complete |
| 0:30.0 | the sentence. The state of the union is. But although times are tough, it's still important |
| 0:37.4 | to make an entrance. |
| 0:39.3 | The President of the United States. |
| 0:42.3 | Oh yeah! Here he comes! |
| 0:47.3 | How you doing there, brother? |
| 0:48.3 | Nice to see a chip, nice tie. |
| 0:50.3 | Oh, damn, what's up, Holmes? |
| 0:53.3 | Oh, yeah. Oh, it's you. I... Oh, damn, what's up, Holmes? Oh, yeah. |
| 0:55.0 | Oh, it's you. |
| 0:56.0 | Oh, I see you. |
| 0:57.0 | He noticed me. |
| 0:58.0 | He noticed me. |
| 1:14.6 | Actually, Hillary had given Obama a heads up that she'd be the one wearing the retina searing coat. |
| 1:21.3 | Although Obama was greeted warmly, the night's speech was no small task. |
| 1:26.2 | Obama's challenge would be to convey to the American public |
| 1:28.3 | the sobering realities of our current situation |
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