okay. hey, dad? i was just kidding before. i care about candy. i care a lot. happy halloween, everyone! >> 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," everybody! thank you so much for tuning in! i'm trevor noah! let's get into it! let's get into it. our guest tonight, si nger-songwriter skylar grey will be here to chat and play a little music for us, skylar grey

is joining us, everybody! she's performing late on in the show. let's get straight into the news. there is a lot of news, almost too much. luckily, though, too much news is just the right amount of news for a segment we call "ain't nobody got time for that." ( cheers and applause ) beyonce -- she took over coachella, she took over the louvre, and now she's taking over vogue. >> beyonce has reportedly been given control over the cover of the september issue of vogue. the singer selected a black photographer to shoot the cover, the first time in the magazine's 126-year history. >> how is that possible? >> trevor: yeah, that's right. beyonce will be the first guest to be given complete control of vogue magazine's september issue cover. that's the holy grail. and on top of that she hired a

black photographer to shoot the cover. yeah, which is insane! ( cheers and applause ) i'm just excited because it's finally a good headline with the words black person and shoot in it. this is so dope! ( cheers and applause ) and you know what's funny about the story is that, by having the first black photographer shoot their cover, they've inadvertently exposed they've never had a black photographer shoot their cover. in 126 years. if they hadn't fixed the mistake, we probably wouldn't have realized. like when the beverage advertises now with real juice -- what was i drinking before? ( laughter ) ( applause ) this has brought up the conversation of how the fashion industry has taken advantage of black people without involving them. zimbabwe is looking to make a big change. >> high hopes in the historic election. votes being counted in the first election in 37 years without

robert on the ballot. >> they cued in the dark. tas sun rose, there was an unprecedented feeling of optimism. >> i feel excited. there's freedom in the air. >> i would expect the content to take quickly and for the announcement of the result to be done as quickly as possible. >> trevor: congratulations on zimbabwe on hosting its first democratic elections in 37 years! ( cheers and applause ) 37 years. because that's how wrong robert mugave was a dictator for. if you don't know in america what it's like to have a strong man in power for that long, don't worry, you will. ( laughter ) robert mugave was in power all these times and allowed elections but wouldn't allow opposition. they would still have elections, count the ballots and he would

still act surprise when he won. oh, i won! i can't believe it! i can't believe it! oh! i can't believe i beat myself! ( laughter ) now, if we have the time, we can talk about how this is only the beginning of zimbabwe's difficult road back to being economically successful on the continent, but we just don't have the time. while simila zimbabwe is celebra president, ohio is celebrating a king. >> some might call him lebron the headmaster. he opened an elementary school in his own town with every detail designed to change kids lives. in i pom is, 230 third and fourth graders identified as needing support chosen for the first classes. >> no matter if i'm playing in los angeles or not, akron, ohio is always home for me. always. >> trevor: wow. ( cheers and applause ) yeah, wow.

that is such an amazing and heart warming story. i love the way lebron was like i'm leaving ohio for los angeles and i'm building a school! what was the first part? never mind, never mind. and now some people are asking why lebron needed to open a school. but you see, after what happened to him in the finals with j.r. smith, lebron was, like, yo, everyone in cleveland needs to learn how to count, okay? we need to make sure that doesn't happen again. ( applause ) and although this is a really beautiful story of philanthropy, it does raise the question of why communities need celebrities to provide services that should be provided by the government, you know? no one should be out there going i hope my team wins the super bowl so they can buy us a fire department. you don't want that. we don't have time to talk about that because the situation between iran and the u.s. took an unexpected turn. >> president trump making news on iran tonight after ripping up iran nuclear deal and exchanging harsh words with iranian

president, today president trump agreeing to meet with the iranian president. >> no pre-conditions. we'll meet anytime they want. good for the country, them, us and the world. >> with president trump's trump offer of face to face meeting with iran, iran take the upper hand, saying it sees no value in a face-to-face meeting. >> trevor: wow, iran. i mean, i know iran seems extreme but i get why they're not eager to meet with trump. you have to admit, he blows hot and cold like a psychoboyfriend. iran! you will suffer consequences the likes no one in history suffered before! i'm sorry, iran. i haven't had my big mack today. want to meet? west meet. let's talk before i bomb you int!want to get a puppy? let's get a puppy. crazy. ( applause )

i understand why iran would think a meeting with trump would be unproductive. he's totally unreliable. but if they take a page out of north korea's book, iran might be able to use that to their advantage. >> north korea, evidence it may be building new long range missiles. these new satellite images according to "the washington post" showing construction of one or possibly two liquid fueled icbms at a facility on the outskirts of pyongyang. >> this would seem to validate concerns north korea had absolutely no intention of getting rid of nuclear weapons despite kim's very big promises following the summit that took place in june ( clicking tongue ) >> trevor: so kim jong un made a promise to trump and did the opposite, which basically means trump is getting a taste of his own medicine, literally, because knowing his doctor his medicine is probably vicodin laced with

ostrich semen. you know what i mean. ( applause ) you know trump will never admit he got played by kim jong un. north korea could fire a nuke at france and he would say, they had a hall pass for one boom boom a year, folks! still time for ads. we'll be right back! ( cheers and applause ) xfinity mobile is a new wireless network

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welcome back to "the daily show"! so, since donald trump took office, there have been plenty of campaign promises he hasn't fulfilled -- building the wall, repealing obamacare and adding a swimsuit contest to the s.a.t.s. he did keep the promise of a tax cut. business is booming. g.d.p. hit 4% growth last quarter, which is impressive. the economy in america was growing so fast if it was a sixth grader it would be the weird boy with the awkward mustache who doesn't know how to shave yet. it would be, like, i would be up one morning and my g.d.p. was huge! ( laughter ) the idea why corporate profits were so high these days, the idea was to pass the profit down to the people who work for him. trump is, like, finally, all of

america will be schauered with gold, a golden shower, if you will, folks! ( applause ) the problem, is so far, corporations have been keeping the extra cash for themselves. >> so far, the biggest investments have been made in stock buybacks. $700 billion worth in the first two quarters, meaning these tax savings are bypassing workers and going straight into shareholders' pockets. real hourly pay of middle class workers has risen just .4% in the last eight months. >> analysis found 4% of workers got a pay raise for the tax bill. >> trevor: for the most part, corporations just passed the tax cuts on to stockholders. starting to seem when trump was going to help the forgotten man, he was referring to an old billionaire who never leaves his mansions. never forget mortimer! he saves all his boogers all in

one jar and we love him so much. so great, tasty boogers! ( laughter ) trump promised a tax cut to everyone. so far, it's gone almost entirely to the wealthy. with midterms less than 100 days away, the administration has come up with a bold new idea. >> the "new york times" reports the trump administration is considering a $100 billion tax cut that would mainly benefit the rich. >> treasury secretary steve mnuchin said his department was studying whether america could use its powers to interpret tax liability. independent analysis suggest that more than 97% of the benefits of indexing capital gains for inflation would actually go to the top ten percent in america. >> trevor: yes, the white house is now planning even more tax cuts that will overwhelmingly benefit the rich, including, by the way, big real estate owners like president trump. at this point, it feels like

trump is just trying to get his way with as much as possible before robert mueller gets him. yeah, like he's a shoplifter in a circle k that starts seeing the cops coming, shoving candy in his pockets, all right, i cope them all! we turn to a man who watched wolf of wall street three times, michael kosta, everybody! ( cheers and applause ) >> bonjour, trev. that's rich for hello. ( laughter ) >> trevor: okay. kosta, hope through you can explain, trump gave wealthy people a tax cut last year. why another one. >> cool it with the class warfare. it just so happens anyone can take advantage of the tax cuts. let's say you made a cool mill off a ten-year hedge fund investment. you can reindex the baseline 2% to account for inflation which means you just got extra 30k.

that will cover my penis reduction. right, trevor? i can loan you a couple of inches. just kidding. i know you've got a hog. ( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: most people don't have $10 million. we're talking about the middle class. >> middle class. that's fine. let's say you're a middle class yacht owner like 35 feet max, couldn't land a helicopter on that thing. you could use these cuts as a tax shelter, borrow 500,000 to invest in buddy dino's porn business, deduct the interest and pay tax only on the invested gains. i say ching, you say cha. cha! do you want to say cha? >> trevor: kosta, i feel like there's no way you understand what you just said. >> of course i don't. that's why i have a broker. hey, chandler, what's up you bitch? yeah, i'm trying to explain moneys to my boss. how does this tax thing work

again. what? right now? you are? go! i'll see you at polo. i got his voicemail. >> trevor: kosta, why do you have a broker? i know for a fact you're not rich. >> not yet, but donald trump promised americans that we're all going to be rich, and he's never lied before, so call me poor -- don't call me, poofer, trevor, call me pre-rich. >> trevor: so how much is your net worth right now? >> how much is an iphone worth? >> trevor: about $900. >> well then i'm worth $900, baby! what up? >> trevor: michael kosta, everybody. we'll be right back! ( cheers and applause ) you want to bring the heat? prove it. with carbs to help fuel muscles... and electrolytes to help replace what you lose in sweat.

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eminem. please welcome skylar grey! ( cheers and applause ) ♪ >> trevor: welcome to the show. >> thank you. >> trevor: and congratulations coming off the successful tour with eminem. is eminem one of those people who is, like, super, like, hard core when we see them but then just a softy and sweetheart in real life? >> kind of. h he's legally fun. >> trevor: i feel like eminem is i the booth rapping and then comes to me and is like, hi... he's one of the funniest people i've ever met. >> trevor: you always dreamed about working with eminem. you talked about how you were first introduce to the idea of singing on an eminem song when stand came out. >> i heard that song when i was 13 and it was my first experience loving hip-hop. >> trevor: right. >> then i deep down had this

dream of wanting to work with rappers etch though i was a folk singer. >> trevor: right. >> so it was a little odd. then i ended up working with him. so -- >> trevor: how does that story begin? let's go to the beginning. so you get into folk singing, and is this a family thing or just the music you -- >> yeah. my mom and i had a folk duo, and i started performing with her when i was six years old. i went solo when i was 14. she wasn't too happy about that. >> trevor: mom, i am leaving you, but i still need you to drop me at all my gigs. >> exactly, exactly. ( laughter ) and then i moved to l.a. when i was 17, got a record deal. things fell apart. i went broke. i left l.a. for a while. i had a bad taste in my mouth about the music industry in general. out in the woods in oregon, i fell back in love with music and decided i had to figure out a way to make a living at it because i wasn't good at anything else. >> trevor: right. >> i was a high school dropout

and all the jobs i tried, i sucked at. so i was, like, music has to work. ( laughter ) i reached out to my publisher and said how can we do this? she just signed a guy snaimed alex the kid, a producer, and she connected us on email and that's how love the way you lie happened. it was my first hip-hop experience. >> trevor: is it a folk hip-hop genre that comes to light? >> no, i've had so much fun working in hip-hop and with rappers and i'll continue to do that forever, but i think my forte is sitting down at a piano or with a guitar and playing. >> trevor: how do you still telesomebody a is it story and tell them to power through the fairly part? how do you know you wouldn't make it out on the other side.

>> for a minute, i thought i wouldn't do music anymore but it's in my blood. >> trevor: do you tell people you're going to fail a lot? >> yeah, you have to be able to deal with the rejection on the daily, once in a while something great will happen and keeps you going through the rest of it. >> trevor: it's inspirational but very realistic -- you're gonna fail, kid! ( laughter ) >> you have to love what you do and not focus on the accolades and the success of a song. focus on having a great time making the song. >> trevor: right. >> then you're going to be happy no matter what. >> trevor: do you think that was one of the issues going out to l.a.? as an artist you go out to los angeles. it's such an industry place and you can get stuck in the world of what does the industry think and people think of you as an artist. then you go to oregon and you're in the woods. the animals are, like, yeah, we don't listen to music. is that what you're going to do now? >> no, i was talking to myself in the woods. i was my only -- ( laughter ) -- seriously, i was my only

feedback. so -- i was my only opinion out there. >> trevor: now i'm picturing you as a disney princess who siption to the animals and they stick their heads out and go, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo! and the animals were, like, that's pretty good! >> i think i definitely had snow white moments like that, yeah. >> trevor: looking at your career now, you're on the up. having beyonce and eminem singing your hooks and songs you've written, to have so much success, do you now struggle with the balance between going back to a place like l.a. or do you go, like, no, i'm an oregon person and i live in the woods forever? >> i live with my fiancé in nappa valley on an amazing ranch. >> trevor: do you have animals? >> yeah, we have sheep. >> trevor: the same ones from the woods? >> there are lots of wild animals. >> trevor: thought you brought them. yo, you guys were with me from the beginning, we're taking you with me.

then you guys are all in the card and, like, road trip! that would have been an amazing story. ( applause ) >> yeah. >> trevor: so what are you looking forward to now. >> i'm looking forward to creating my own sound and music for the world to hear outside the rapping collaboration. >> trevor: you should get them to collaborate on yours so now we need eminem coming in and doing the hook. >> i have done that on previous albums. >> trevor: i'm saying eminem should come and sing. >> oh, and i should rap? >> trevor: yeah, you should just, like, flip the genre. >> that would be interesting. >> i'm just saying it would be mind blowing. if eminem comes in and says. ♪ i walk on water >> i'll ask him. >> trevor: you ask him but don't tell him i said that. thanks for being on the show. ( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: stay tuned for a special performance right after the break, everybody. skylar grey,

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>> trevor: welcome back to "the daily show"! now to play a medley of her most famous hooks, please welcome back skylar grey. ( cheers and applause ) ♪ ♪ >> the first song i'm going to play is the song that changed my life when it got into the hands of eminem and rihanna. ♪ ♪ ♪ just gonna stand there and watch me burn ♪ ♪ we'll that's all right because i like the way it hurts ♪ ♪ you're just gonna stand there and hear me cry ♪ ♪ well that's all right because i love the way you lie ♪ ♪ i love the way you lie ♪ i love the way you lie

>> and then i got asked to work with puff daddy and this is the song we did. ♪ i'm coming home ♪ 'em coming home ♪ tell the world i'm coming home ♪ ♪ let the rain wash away all the pain of yesterday ♪ ♪ i know my kingdom awaits ♪ and they've forgiven mimi stakes ♪ ♪ i'm coming home ♪ i'm coming home ♪ tell the world i'm coming >> and then i got to work with an amazing songwriter, mathew

koma, on a song for zed. >> you are the piece of me ♪ ♪ i wish i didn't need ♪ chasing relentlessly ♪ still fight and i don't know why ♪ ♪ if our love is tragedy, why are you my remedy ♪ ♪ if our love's intanty ♪ why are you my clarity ♪ my clarity ♪ my clarity ♪ why are you my clarity ♪ my clarity ♪ my clarity ♪ why are you my clarity >> and most recently, i

collaborated with macklemore. ♪ ♪ ♪ i feel glorious, glorious ♪ got a chance to start again ♪ i was born for this, born for this ♪ ♪ it's who i am, how could i forget? ♪ ♪ i made it through the darkest part of the night. ♪ and now i see the sunrise ♪ and i feel glorious, glorious ♪ ♪ i feel glorious, glorious ♪ ♪ ( cheers and applause )