This Week's News | Jon Stewart on the Trump-Pope Beef & Ronny Chieng on JD Vance's TPUSA Flop

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

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4.2 • 14.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Jon Stewart dives into Trump Jesus-ifying himself with an AI image (which he later claimed was depicting him as a doctor) and the president's Easter beef with Pope Leo. Ronny Chieng weighs in on JD Vance's apology tour on Trump's behalf, Joe Biden thinking he saw Obama, the president's theory that diet soda kills cancer cells, and a FEMA official's claims of teleporting... to a Waffle House. Plus, Ronny Chieng comments on the ongoing meme war between the U.S. and Iran, and Pete Hegseth slams the media for its lack of "patriotic" coverage. -- Stream full episodes of The Daily Show on Paramount+: https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/the-daily-show/ The Daily Show airs weeknights at 11/10c on Comedy Central. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Comedy Central.
0:04.0	Later on, I'll be talking to peace activist, Aziz Abu-Sara and Meos-Inan.
0:14.0	They are a Palestinian and an Israeli who traveled their homeland, and I assume assume walked into a bar with the Pope.
0:26.6	So honestly, it's an incredible book about two men touched by tragedy who try to rise above this conflict to find reconciliation and healing.
0:36.6	It's a message of compassion shared by many in the world today, including Chicago-born
0:42.6	Villanova educated Pope Leo the 14th.
0:46.9	Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace.
0:53.5	Not a peace imposed by force, but through dialogue.
0:57.9	Ah.
1:00.4	Look who became Pope and suddenly became too good for English.
1:08.5	But still, a beautiful, compassionate message that I cannot imagine.
1:15.6	Anyone.
1:16.6	Really?
1:17.6	Anyone.
1:18.6	Anyone.
1:22.6	I can't think of that.
1:24.6	It does not come into my brain that anyone in the world hearing the Pope's message of peace
1:35.3	will have some kind of a weird problem with it.
1:40.0	Overnight, President Trump lashing out at Pope Leo on truth social,
1:45.5	calling the first American Pope weak and a loser.
2:06.4	I am really starting to sour on this president.
2:16.5	What is going through Trump's mind?
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