st realized something. we shouldn't be doing this. i mean, look at us. what have we become? - huh? - what? - don't you see? if we go and exterminate everyone who isn't ginger, then we're no better than they were for thinking less of us. maybe we all have to learn to live together. - but you just said everyone who isn't ginger must die. - right, but--but i've learned that we can't judge people based on what they look like. - but you just said they should all die fifteen seconds ago. - i know. i know, but i get it now. we've got to live and let live. - what did that kid in the green hat tell you? - huh? - that kid right there, what did he just tell you? - who...oh, him? oh, no, that was just-- that was about something else, totally unrelated. - you wanted to kill everyone who wasn't ginger. then that kid in the green hat told you something, and now you don't want to do it all of a sudden. what did he tell you? - no, he was just telling me about something funny

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comedy central 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, thank you so much, everybody, thank you for tuning in, i'm trevor noah. my guest tonight coming out with her new movie atomic blonde, charlize theron is here, everyone. (applause) kicking ass in her new film. and speaking of white women who kick ass, beyonce. >> outrage growing over mad oom teu sad's shall tussaud statue.

>>er fans are going off, pean believe it to be too light skinned and didn't even look lie beyons. the museum tells us we have adjusted the styling and lighting of her figure. the fans are still unimpressed say it is plain crazy to say this looks anything like the real singer. >> trevor: this is why diversity in the workplace matters. a black person with have never let that fly, never. now people at mad am tussaud will be looking for kayne west after every corn he they walk by, is he here. they need a help line that white folk can call before they make these mistakes. just call and be like you've reached black checker kiki speaking, no, miley, you still can't twerk, baby, bye bye now, bye bye. (applause) what was mad am tussaud thinking. do we need a beyonce who can't dance or sing? i mean we already have mariah carry. i mean-- don't boo.

i up stand the outrage. i understand the outrage it is important to get beyonce's blackness right. she represents empower am for many black women and her blackness is one of her defining features. you can't just exclude that. it would be like a wax-- without wax hostages. it wouldn't be true. to be fair, to be fair, i do think on the other hand people's expectations are a little too high when it comes to wax figures. let's be honest, they all kind of suck. i mean look at wax leonardo dicaprio. look at that. it doesn't look like him, it looks like his character from the titanic got fished out of the ocean and then immediately punched from that bear from "the revenant." haven't these people learned their lesson about making wax figures? you don't do it, because if you do they could come to life and run for senate. you don't do it, people. no.

(applause) let's move on from wax figures to something even more dead inside. yesterday mitch mcconnell and the republican senator success fle voted to start debating their obamacare repeal bill. which they call the better care reconciliation action, aka no-bamacare. and the biggest moment was when arizona senator john mccain just diagnosed with brain cancer flew across the country to cast the deciding vote. >> i hope we can rely on humility and our need to cooperate and our dependence on each other, to learn how to trust each other again, and by so doing better, serve the people who elected us. stop listening to the bombastic, loud mouths on the radio and television and the internet, to hell with them. (applause) >> that was such a dramatic, emotional moment that you almost forgot how bad it is for the people who could lose health insurance. it's like if you watched that scene where free willie majestically leaps out of the

water but then lands on a bunch of orphans. over the years, john mccain has both a reputation of being a maverick of the senate, not afraid to speak his mind. he poops in the eur urinal, when he flies he picks the middle seat, and yesterday was no different. >> i voted for the motion to proceed to allow the vote to continue, and amendments to offer, i will not vote for this bill as it is today. >> trevor: yeah, yeah! powerful, right? powerful. whooo. also, like a cool rhythm, sounded like that speech was written by the same person who wrote diddy's rhymes, you know, we. aid. going. nowhere. we. ain't. going nowhere. >> although he voted to let other senators consider repeal og bamacare, he himself would not support the bill. and he boldly stood by that

promise for almost six hours. >> around 9:30 last night the senate rejected the better care reconciliation action. nine republicans voted against the legislation. senator john mccain voted for it after saying he wouldn't. >> trevor: goddam it, mccain! the man mavericked himself. he said it then it got popular so he went against it. he said he hates process and says he. >> and votes for it, knowing yoga teachers yesterday took less positions than john mccain. they couldn't keep up. plawses (applause) so that obamacare repeal went down yesterday. this afternoon, they tried another one. and it crashed harder than a live mariah carry performance. oh, you didn't think i would do it twice in the same t is me and you! you know what you did. they keep crashing, we are

basically watching congressional roadrunner, right. republicans keep trying to kill obamacare but instead they end up crashing too a wall. i mean how many times will they try to repeal obamacare. it feels like they are always voting, voting, this week and last week and the week before. the republicans have voted more times than those illegal mexicans that voted for hillary. and they didn't even want to go through all of it. that is the wrs part. they are only doing this because last week president trump told them that if they didn't vote for some form of obamacare repeal he would go after them in the primaries next year. so you would think that this week trump would be leading the charge. instead, the commander in tweet was focused on friendly fire. >> breaking news, president trump banning transgender people from serving in the u.s. military. he made the surprise announcement in a series of tweets. >> trevor: what the [bleep]. what the-- who-- that was before 9 a.m. before-- you know what trump as

president, you don't even need morning coffee, you don't. yeah, a little bit of him wakes you right up. straight into it. and too much makes you [bleep] yourself. you know? (applause) now like most of trump's idea this ban sounds crazy when you firs hear it. but then he explained it, and it is way worse. >> caught tweeting out after a consultation with my generals and military experts, please be advised that the united states government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the u.s. military. our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory. and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. thank you. >> trevor: thank you? wow. no one takes away civil rights as politely as donald trump. i'm banning wheelchair ramps and have a great day, thank you.

so as usual, that is a proclamation from trump was bull of bs. so let's try and break it down without going mad. first he says he consulted with his generals. but this morning the pentagon reports they had no idea that this ban was coming. so unless he met with the general online-- (applause) that part doesn't-- and as far as the reason trump gave for the ban, he said the military cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs. now just so we are on the same page, trump's agenda related medical expenses for the military cost at most $8 million a year, yeah. also known as .001 percent of the total military budget. in contrast, taxpayers will be paying $60 million just for trump to live at his own

property lake mar-a-lago and that is before he ordered dessert, 60 million. i know some people were surprised by the president's order this morning. but maybe we shouldn't be. because even though trump always claims he was for the lgbtq rights, he never seemed fully comfortable in that identity. >> lgbt is starting to like donald trump very much like him. >> trevor: the lb, and lgbt community-- the lg-- btq community. >> i will do everything in my power to protect our lgbtq citizens-- yeah. >> trevor: donald trump said he would protect lgbtq citizens, and actually considering how many wars he is going to start, maybe he just did. we'll be right back. (applause)

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. >> trevor: welcome back to the daily show. president trump's 9 a.m. tweet ban ignited a controversy where few were expecting it. so here to discuss transpeople's service in the armed force we are fortunate to have with us tonight two u.s. army veterans who are also transgender. please welcome joey and jennifer. (applause) thank you very much for being here. let's get straight into the

topic and the day as it happened. donald trump tweeted out this message, essentially banning transgender service members from serving in the military. let's talk about the impact. first and fore most, what would the upon impact be if that were to happen right now to somebody who was serving in the military as a transgender person. >> in the immediate piece are you looking at a reduction of force by nearly 15,000 service members across the board. that served in various segments or branches, different skill sets. some are highly regarded skill sets that are very valuable for the military. >> right. >> that is an immediate reduction, you are looking at a force reduction. >> when it the military there is also the issue of how you are discharged. is that something that would concern an active service member? >> yes, absolutely because that discharge code is everything. it's education benefits, it's health benefits, it's the lead in to a new job.

they can never work in the federal government again with a dishonorable discharge or anything underneath honorable so it leaves that uncertainty for them complete plee loo -- completely. >> many of those ideas have been, you know, shut out there by people, like why should we pay? why should america's military have to pay for you to have your gender reassignment surgery. why should america have to pay for you to figure it out? as somebody who served for a very long time, how would you respond to that and what do you think people need to understand about serving in the military as a transagainer person? >> well, you know, again, back to many of us who are career soldiers, you know, the military made a bigger investment in training me to do various skills. they raised my skill set up. my service up. and they were valuable skill sets. they would spend, if there was any other medical procedure that was necessary for my own health than safety, the military would provide it. no matter what it may be.

so in this case, you know, they were providing that care. i was able, i served on active duty. i was deployed overseas in afghanistan while i was on hormone therapy. and in the middle of a transition. >> does it feak your ability to perform as a soldier? >> no. case if fact, again, i will refer back to afghanistan. i was-- my job was probably the most distinct job i had in the military after 30 years. was that that of a combat advisor. i was assigned to the french army as an advisor to train, advise and assist the development of the afghan police force. with that job, i was, you know, it was the most dynamic jb i had in my career to date and i was able to do that job according to sanctions, i received the bronze star, the french national defense medal, i was the first soldier that received that medal from the french his world war ii. >> trevor: wow. (applause) >> so when you think-- so in

respect to saying are we capable, there are many, many service men out there today, service women who are serving with distinction, there are company commanders, there are air force pilots, in all walks of life, as someone who was in command, did you experience people reacting differently, did you know your soldiers maybe not being as focused as they would have been because of what you were experiencing? >> most of that occurred in my career at the very end, at the end, i wasn't allowed to serve openly. very few last weeks of my career, word got out that i was transgender and that i was, in fact, living another life. the command called me up and asked me to retire, quietly. and i was retired, not with great fan fare, not with the pomp and circumstances that comes to someone of senior

enlisted. i was a sergeant major, that is the highest of enlisted ranks and i was doing it until that moment that they found out. >> if someone says how can you be in the military if are you not that supersoldier, what does that mean for you as a transgender person. >> specifically i would feel like somebody was judging me on my gender identity rather than what my character or my skill set can bring to a role. i performed incredibly in my role. i was an hr supervisor for a combat support hospital and i was in charge of everything. and i was also a full honors funeral pall bearer, there was absolutely no strain on my position because of my gender identity. i didn't physically transition in the military because i was so afraid of the negative repercussions. when i was serving it was considered a mental disorder to be identified as transgender. and i saw people being chaptered out and dishonorably discharged in my unit left and right for various different reasons. so i held in-- held in my true self and i was absolutely miserable but i socially transitions outside of work.

i went by a male name and started introducing myself as a boy away from work. and it ate me up inside that i had to live this lie when i was working but that didn't affect my job. (applause). >> trevor: i appreciate your time, i appreciate you sharing. joe and general ever, everybody, joe and general ever, everybody, we'll be right back. so, if anyone has a reason that these two should not be wed, speak now. (coughs) so sorry. oh no...

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♪ i just ran. ♪ i ran both night and day. >> trevor: please welcome charlize theron. (applause) >> wow, thank you. thank you. that's nice. >> trevor: welcome to the show. >> i am so happy to be here. >> trevor: i don't think you understand how excited i am. i, i am not afraid to share this. when you won your ak adds me award and they had announced that you won, i started crying. i was like, she is so good. she is so-- like all of south africa was like, she's so amazing. so golden, it's so good.

>> i said exactly the same thing when you got this spot. i said he's so amazing. >> trevor: thank you very much for being here. you are a bona fide action star, atomic blonde is based on a graphic novel. for those who have no clue what it is about, real quick, what is "atomic blonde" all about. >> it is about an mi-6 agent who gets sent to berlin five days before the wul falls. and she is supposed to just go and recruit a colleague, and bring the body back and she gets kind of caught up trying to find this list. and offered action-- . >> trevor: i have seen you kick ass in a movie but in the like this, you did a lot of your stunts. >> i feel like south african girls are just tough. there is something in the water in south africa, right? >> trevor: cholera. no, that's not true. that's not true. we actually have some of the best water in the world. there is a scene in the movie, i don't want to spoil it for people but it is a fight scene in a stair case. and it is one of the most

amazing fight scenes you will ever watch, when you are filming that, when people are attacking, you, i know you are acting but it is still punches. so if the fist hits your face you can't be like no, this is acting am like in that moment, are you ever going like oh, i might get punched, i might get punched, i might get punched. >> i think you realize it is par for the course when you make a movie like this for stuff like that to happen. i think something, you always kind of prepare that something will happen. and i think that makes it better when you do get hit or something. i didn't get hit once on this movie. but i collided with a camera operator in that sequence. there is a scene where i get hit by a bag and i point around it and i just-- literally i saw stars for seconds. and the camera operator was a little dazed. and then we just got up and did it again. >> he was like, i don't even get to be in the credit ares for this. i'm not in the starring role, but i got breutioned. the movie lacks amazing t is a really exciting project.

you didn't just star in it, you also produced it. is that an exciting venture to step into. >> yeah. >> trevor: being in hollywood, being a powerful woman taking on additional roles? >> yeah, i've always loved, i think, many aspects of making film. i think you know, even when i did my first job as an actor, i wanted to know who that guy was. and did that that guy, why is that guy there. and why does it cost so much money to do this i always had an interest in all of it. and i think producing kind of came from that interest. i think there is always been a business woman inside me that needed to kind of come out and i get to do that through producing. but i think more importantly, it's really, there is something empowering having a company and being able to you know, make material come to life that is em empowers for women and i think just new and fresh and making stuff that makes women feel you

know, what they deserve to be. what they are. that to me, making this film, i just really wanted to celebrate women in this film. and how great we are. (applause) >> we are so proud of you. thank you very much for being on the show. and thank you for kicking ass in atomic blond. >> thank you. july 28th in theaters. charlize theron, everybody. we'll be right back.