from the boat, the boys were airlifted aboard mr. hankey's magical helicrapter. in the four hours since they had left home, the boys had traveled so far that mr. hankey then had to fly them on his 7-turdy-7. from there, it was only an hour ride back home on the poo-choo express. four friends, torn apart by tragedy, would now start the long journey back to forgiveness. kenny mccormick's remains were finally brought home to his parents, and the boys received treatment for their herpes. - no, i didn't get herpes. i just had a cold sore. - kyle broflovski spent 27 days in the hospital, having fecal matter removed from his nasal passages. stan marsh dedicated himself to raising awareness about the boredom risks of ziplining. his awareness videos became so popular that stan once again ended up jacking it in san diego. - as for eric cartman, he refused to let the tragedy stop him from doing what he loves most. in just two weeks,

he was back to drinking diet double dew, defiant to "dew" the math. - it's diet, dude. diet soda doesn't give you diarrhea. >> from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is "the daily show" with trevor noah. ( cheers and applause ) ♪ >> trevor: welcome to "the daily show"! we're back! we're back, people! i'm so glad we're back! thank you! ( cheers and applause ) i'm trevor noah. i'm excited. my guest tonight was barack obama's chief economist, austan goolsbee is going to be here, everybody. ( cheers and applause ) we're going to chat about the taxes, economy, trade, everything knurls-related. but first, it is so good to be back. we just had our little spring break at the show.

i got to do some traveling which is always a blessing. i visited the city of seville in spain, which is really beautiful. i was looking for relaxation after four months as a black immigrant in donald trump's america. i sort of felt like i earned it. i didn't get into stressful situations. i didn't go where everybody was angry at america, didn't fly united airlines -- ( laughter ) i thought, i'm going to be chill. i was walking around in seville, taking in the sights and sounds and turned the corner -- i'll show you the video of what happened. ♪ ♪ ♪ ( audience reacts ) yeah. now, look -- ( laughter ) you think you're shocked. every single one of my friends on insgram was, like, where are you?!

get out! why are you still there?! ( laughter ) and, look, i knew this probably didn't have anything to do with the k.k.k. i thought spanish people walked around in sheets because they never knew where to navment but this was a catholic holy week tradition that goes back to 450 years and the hood represents sin, which is appropriate. ( laughter ) and then in the 1920s, the ku klux klan stole the look. ( audience reacts ) that's right. cornerback.k.k. outfits are cul. totally not cool. you guys are a terrorist group, not white girls at coachella. you don't do that. ( applause ) you have to give the spanish props for sticking with their outfits after the k.k.k. most people are, like, we can't do this. they are, like, this is still our thing, we are here first!

like a guy in the '30s saying i don't care, i don't like big mustaches, i'm going to ride it out and see what happens. it's not like this will last forever. they won't be calling it the mustache of hitler, guys. ( laughter ) i can imagine someone in the k.k.k. seeing photos from spain and saying finally, a place where i can feel at home! i'm going to move there! then he gets there and find out even the guys in the hood speak spanish. he's going to be, like, it's a whole country of mexicans! ( laughter ) but let's move on because as stressful as the spanish klan was, it was still nice to get a vacation in because if you have been keeping up with the news this past week, it's becoming clear president trump is probably going to get us into world war iii. i thought, let's see what our current options are in a game show i'm making up right now called "button of doom."

♪ button of doom... i made it up myself. the big question is, where could world war iii start. button, doom -- of course, syria, the country run by president bashar al-assad, the man who looks like the love child of screech and slenderman. ( laughter ) after assad illegally used chemical weapons on syrian civilians, donald trump interrupted his dinner date with the chinese president to take swift and delicious action. >> president trump ordering his first major military action firing 59 tomahawk missiles into a syrian air base. >> when you're with the president of china you are launching these military strikes. was that planned? >> we were finishing dinner, we're now having dessert, and we were having the most beautiful

piece of chocolate cake you've ever seen, and president xi was enjoying it, and i said, we've just launched 59 missiles heading to iraq. >> heading toward syria. >> yes, heading toward syria. >> trevor: you know, i'm not going to lie, i've had some good-ass chocolate cake in my life, but never so good that i forgot which country i just bombed. ( applause ) what's even funnier is the idea of trump not just sharing a piece of cake with the chinese president, but it's how trump says the chinese president reacted. >> how did he react? >> so he paused for ten seconds, and then he asked the interpret tore please say it again. i didn't think that was a good sign. ( laughter ) >> trevor: you know what's great about this is president xi understands some english, but in

that moment, trump made him doubt every sing english word he's ever learned. ( laughter ) he turned to his interpreter and said, hold up, did this (bleep) just offer me cake and then say that he launched 59 missiles?! ( laughter ) ( applause ) and you may be wondering, how did donald trump go from "no action in syria" to "59 actions in syria"? i'll give you a hint. it started with daddy, please! >> eric trump making headlines of his own this morning. he said ivanka is a mother of three kids and she has influence. i'm sure she said, listen, this is horrible stuff. my father will act in times like that. >> trevor: yeah, that's right. trump bombed syria because ivanka talked him into it. i wonder if eric was jealous. oh, so you can order an airstrike for ivanka but you can't order eli manning to come

to my birthday party?! you're the president, dad! he has to do what you say! oh, my god! ( laughter ) now, look, it's too soon. the truth is it's too soon to say what effect this will have on the conflict in sir yaflt we don't know yet. what we do know is it definitely pissed off assad' biggest ally vladimir putin because he's gone from being trump's b.f.f. to basically saying, hey donald, catch me outside, how about that? so, syria could be the start of world war iii, or -- ( ding ) afghanistan. >> the first time ever the united states announced that it has used the most powerful non-nuclear bomb from its arsenal. >> sitcom in the white house confirming the u.s. military developed what it calls the mother of all bombs on a terrorist tunnel network in eastern afghanistan and the target islamic state fighters.

>> the it's officially caused the massive air ordinance bomb but because of its size it picked up the name mother of all bombs. >> trevor: this is a powerful women but is it the mother of all bombs? it doesn't give birth to a bunch of little bombs. it doesn't act con descending to other childless bombs. you don't see this bomb going, everything changes when you detonate. you know, my life finally has meaning. i know it's hard to understand now but when you strike afghanistan, one day, you will, you will. ( laughter ) and the chance of america striking afghanistan, starting world war iii, i don't know about that. so where else could world war iii start? ). ( ding ) no, no one's going to fight over uganda

( ding ) the korea of the north. >> north korea saying a nuclear strike is possible if provoked by what it calls u.s. aggression. president trump had tough talk of his own today tweeting on twitter, north korea is looking for trouble. if china decides to help, great, if not we'll go it by ourselves. >> trevor: u.s.a.... u.s.a.... let's have peace talks. how about it, wolf? u.s.a. wolf, you're not helping us, one more time. u.s.a.... u.s.a. he has no life. but, yes, trump threatened north korea on twitter and, since they dont have the internet in north korea, they responded like this -- >> kim jong un on hand the to watch the celebration with this massive military parade. >> we saw north korea's full arsenal on display. there were scud missiles, submarine launched ballistic

missiles, land-based missiles that can be launched from a mobile launcher and at the end we saw north korean intercontinental ballistic missiles. >> trevor: sweet jesus, america may have the mother of all bombs but north korea has the whole bomb family -- daddy bomb, baby bomb, aunt bomb and her roommate bomb, the whole gang! ( laughter ) you know, normally, we watch north korean military parades the same way we watch a 10-year-old kick boxing demonstration. we see what they're doing but we're not threatent. it's like, aaahhh! that's cute. but now some of these missiles may be able to reach the united states. it's not like the u.s. could go in and bomb north korea because north korea would destroy south korea with their missiles and the way north korea protects assad china protects north korea, so it doesn't help during all this tension the

vice president went to meet north korea. >> the vice president went to the d.m.z. >> on the other side of the barrier are north korean soldiers taking photos of the vice president. >> trevor: after this, sergio garcia will be putting for the masters championship -- ( whispering ) ( laughter ) >> trevor: this is a serious situation. look at mimes. he looks so mad. it's almost like he looked over the border and he saw a planned parenthood. he's like, oh, these animals... ( applause ) oh, by the way, you know how mike pence won't have dinner with a woman without his wife there? this is real. the dude brought his wife with him to the demilitarized zone,

like he worried in the middle to have the land mines, there might be a woman at a table just sitting there. oh, no, my sinful penis! ( laughter ) so now, thanks to pence at the border, trump sending ships to north korea and his twitter fingers, there is a scary possibility this could actually be the starting point of world war iii and possibly the end of the world. so, my friends, we only have so much time left. but enough time for an ad break. we'll be right back. ( applause )

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you see what's happening, and we are right on track. >> trevor: easter is such a holy day. people, i'm here with rabbit jesus -- ( laughter ) -- it's so holy, folks, you wouldn't believe it. so holy, so big. ( laughter ) i must say, i'm impressed how steve bannon is adjusting nicely to his new role at the white house. ( cheers and applause ) nice to see. yes. i think my favorite moment of the white house easter celebration was when they played the national anthem for the first family, and watch melania trump remind donald he's the president. ( singing star bangled banner ) ( applause )

you can see melania is, like, come on, donald, it's easy! just put your hand where the human heart is supposed to be! ( applause ) it was actually a really fun day at the white house, you know. donald trump signed an easter card, which, for some reason, he did exactly the same way he signs executive orders. ( laughter ) he saw this, which i guess means he didn't read it and a federal judge struck it down. but of course the white house didn't forget the true meaning of easter, the miraculous resurrection of kellyanne conway. this clip was supposed to be one of her shining moments but because to have the music it had a completely different feel. >> we'll talk about the easter egg roll and meet her family in a few minutes. first, news of the day, north korea. kim jong un launched a missile ( "looney tunes" music )

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( cheers and applause ) ♪ >> trevor: welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me. >> trevor: such a pleasure to have you here at this time. it is about the time for taxes. >> yes, they gave us three extra days this year. i still haven't filed mine. so i'm going to use it. >> trevor: nice, so you're being presidential. i like that. ( laughter ) you were president obama's economist. let's talk about the taxes -- i mean, there are so many things to get , into but let's start off with the taxes, the tax plan, and what president trump proposed. looking at his plan around infrastructure, the president has said i need certain cuts to get the infrastructure spending that i want. a lot of people say that his cuts aren't realistic. do donald trump's tax plans make sense to an economist? >> no. not even remotely. look, here's the thing -- when you run for president, when

people run for president, normally they outline in some detail what they want to do. >> trevor: yeah. >> he didn't do that. if you run -- they asked him about the health plan, and they said, you have been criticized for not having specifics. what would be your specifics? what would you replace obamacare with? and his answer was, something fabulous. >> trevor: yes. >> that was his plan. that was the plan. if you run on "something fabulous," then, when you get in and appoint business people, people with no policy experience to the cabinet jobs, we thought what it meant was he must be just delegating the details to congress. >> trevor: uh-huh. >> but then when doin congress produces details and he attacks the details, we bog down and congress is, like, fine, you do it. what's your idea? they don't have a plan. they don't have a tax plan. they just want to cut taxes for everyone, and they can't afford

to do that, so we're going around and around in a circle. >> trevor: someone was asking why not cut taxes for everyone? that sounds like a nice thing. >> why not cut them all to zero? >> trevor: yeah, now you're talking! ( applause ) >> okay, so the -- one of the only problems with that is you've run out of money, and, so, when the government has to do things which actually matter for the growth of the country, whether it's protect us through national defense or pay for the science, pay for education funding so people can go to college, pay social security and medicare and your grandma's in a nursing home, all those things you're going to run out of money doing. >> trevor: but the good news is trump will cut all those things. so other than military trump says he's working to cut science and they're working to cut education -- >> that's what they're trying to

do because they're trying to come up with $2 trillion to pay for the tax cuts. ordinary working folks in this country have had to deal with recession, financial crises, a series of squeezes on their wages, all those things. how do you look at the last 15 years in this country and say, you know what the biggest problem was? we didn't cut billionaires' taxes enough! >> trevor: question for you as an economist, if you had a magic wand to wave, what would be the big thing you would change about the taxes in the u.s.? >> i have an old paper/suggestion which starts from the premise for something like half or more of the country, every single thing you fill out on your tax return, the i.r.s. already has. your employer already sent the w-2 to them. your bank already sent them, they know the interest. the government, if i could wave a magic wand, they'd just take the information and rather than making you, the i.r.s.'s lowest

paid employee, they'd just send you a form that said your employer told you you make this, your bank told us you make this, totally optional, but if this is correct, check this box and you're done and i call it the automatic tax return ( applause ) and it would be optional if -- >> trevor: sounds like a great idea! >> i think they should definitely do it. >> trevor: why wouldn't they do that? >> no, the accountants came over and said, that will destroy our business. and grover norquist said do you trust the government to do your taxes? so it bogged down. but i still think it would be a good idea and it would be totally optional. >> trevor: me and you against the accountants. >> we'll do it. >> trevor: we'll with take them on. >> we'll do it. >> trevor: thank you so much. we'll be right back! ( cheers and applause ) ♪