Trump Berates Reporters, Gets Mystery MRI & Closes Border to (Non-White) Immigrants | Elizabeth Kolbert

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

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4.4 • 13.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Trump spent the weekend celebrating Thanksgiving the traditional way: abusing reporters, calling Tim Walz the R-word, and bragging about his "perfect" MRI score. Plus, while the president spins a National Guard shooting for his anti-immigrant agenda, Jon Stewart slams the double standard of criminal justice for immigrants and J6 insurrectionists. Pulitzer Prize-winning author and staff writer at The New Yorker, Elizabeth Kolbert, sits down with Jon Stewart to discuss her latest book, "Life on a Little-Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World." They talk about matching the awareness of climate problems with an effort for change, humans wasting 10,000 years of “climate stability” by inventing ways to disrupt it, the Trump administration's climate policy regression, and how developing countries are reaping both financial and environmental gains by leaning into clean energy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Comedy Central.
0:06.6	From the most trusted journalists at Comedy Central, it's America's only source for news.
0:14.0	This is The Daily Show with your host, John Stewart.
0:18.1	Thank you. John Stewart Hello!
0:42.0	My goodness!
0:44.0	So happy to be back.
0:45.5	Welcome to the Daily Show.
0:46.5	My name is John Stewart.
0:47.2	Great show for you tonight.
0:48.3	Later on, we're going to be joined by author Elizabeth Colbert.
0:50.5	We will be discussing the environment.
0:54.7	Do we still need one?
0:57.8	By the way, you couldn't hear in the audience, but I said, we have Elizabeth Colbert
1:00.5	on the show, and someone in the audience said, I love her.
1:04.4	Like, literally just in the middle of it, it was just like, oh, I love her.
1:09.7	So we are pleasing her.
1:15.8	Before, how was your Thanksgiving?
1:17.3	Do you eat a lot there?
1:18.1	I've eaten pie every morning
1:20.6	for the last five mornings.
1:23.9	I ate a lot.
1:25.0	Did you stay safe from Vecna?
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