this is gonna be really hard. >> trevor: hey, what's going on, everybody. i'm trevor noah. this is "the daily social distancing show." today is february 17th, and here's your vaccine tip of the day: if you see a syringe lying on the ground, please, don't just assume it's a covid vaccine and inject it into yourself. don't do that. i don't know what was in the shot i took, but i'm definitely addicted to it now. anyway, on tonight's show: texas is power hungry. donald trump is the emcee at the mitch mcconnell roast. and dulce sloan uncovers kamala harris's secret family. so let's do this, people! welcome to "the daily social distancing show." >> announcer: from trevor's couch in new york city to your couch somewhere in the world, this is "the daily social distancing show," with trevor noah. >> trevor: let's kick off the show with the coronavirus

pandemic. it's the reason you keep refreshing vaccine websites like they're selling coachella tickets. and with over a million americans getting vaccinated every day, everyone is anxiously looking forward to a time when they can get back to doing normal things again, like going out out to eat, or not thinking about the welfare of the people who deliver their packages. and last night, president joseph "raisinette" biden gave the country an update on when normal life might happen. >> president biden, on a trip to the swing state of wisconsin for a cnn town hall, his first trip as president, he offered a new timeline on when the vaccine would be available for all americans and a return to something like normal. >> by the end of july, we'll have over 600 million doses, enough to vaccinate every single american. as my mother would say, with the grace of god and the goodwill of the neighbors, that by next christmas, i think we'll be in a very different circumstance-- god willing-- than we are today.

>> trevor: wow. who would have seen this coming. after all that talk from trump, biden is the one that will have people saying "merry christmas" again. but that's right, biden is predicting that covid-19 will be gone from our lives by the end of this year, just in time for covid-21 to kick into high gear. wait, no, i don't want covid-21. and i'm really hopeful that biden is right, because if things are normal by christmas, that means santa can come down the chimney and put my presents under the tree again-- unlike last year, when he threw them through my living room window. you broke that shit, santa! but let's move on from the current president to the previous one. now out of office, donald trump is back at the helm of his business empire and trying to figure out how to make money without being able to overcharge the secret service. but today, he watched a piece of that empire literally collapse. >> we have got breaking news in atlantic city, new jersey.

just moments ago, the former trump plaza hotel and casino was brought down-- kaboom-- by a planned implosion. the building had deteriorated in recent years, and atlantic city's mayor said the implosion was not about politics. it was about public safety. >> tickets to see the demolition of the hotel, formerly owned by the 45th president, went for as high as $575. >> trevor: whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold up. people paid almost six hundred bucks to watch that building get demolished? did they know trump wasn't inside? i mean, forget hotels. trump just needs to build shit with his name on it, and then charge people to watch him blow it up. it will be the most profitable business he's ever had! now, obviously, this wasn't a response to the trump presidency. the reason this happened is because the trump plaza hotel and casino had been struggling for a really long time, which is too bad. because back in the day, this

was called the hotel to stay at by "syphilis magazine." still, though, it couldn't have helped to have trump's name on the place. and it really says something when even atlantic city is like, "trump is giving a bad name to our town full of pawn shops and strip clubs. it's gotta go. we can't be associated with that name, ain't that right, pickles." while trump's hotel was exploding from within, so is the party that trump leads. in the wake of the capitol riots, and the ensuing peasm a split has emerged in the party between trump loyalists and traditional conservatives, like mitch mcconnell, who blamed trump for the riot, and basically called for him to be charged with crimes. well, now, trump is striking back. >> former president trump is lashing out at senate minority leader mitch mcconnell in a sament: >> cnn is learning this statement was actually watered down. it included saying that mcconnell had "too many chins and not enough brain."

>> trevor: okay, you know what? how dare you, donald? mitch mcconnell does not have multiple chins, okay? he doesn't have any chins. he has a neck sack that he developed to store air so he can breathe underwater! learn some biology! but, also, dayyymn, this is some fancy trash talk. "dour, sullen..." i think this proves that social media makes you dumber. i mean, trump's been off twitter for a couple weeks, and he's already learning new s.a.t. word a day. he also called mitch "unsmiling," which is just such classic trump. no matter who you are, trump will find a way to sexually harass you. "mitch, you're a failure. a disaster for party. and why don't you smile more, baby? come on, show us a little smile." but you can tell the rift in the republican party is getting serious. and, honestly, if it comes down to trump versus mitch, my money's on trump, because have

you ever seen a rabid mitch mcconnell supporter? no, because they don't exist. even mitch is like, "look, i can take me or leave me, mbahhh." but let's move on to our top story. three days ago, a freak winter storm slammed into texas, causing blackouts for millions of people. and usually when there are blackouts in america, things go back to normal in a couple of hours, and it's not a big deal. you light some candles, grab some flashlights, and then you tell scary stories about the woman who married the ghost of a little boy. but in texas, many people are still waiting for the heat to come back on three days later, and things stopped being fun a long time ago. >> this morning, a deadly winter blast tearing across the country from mississippi to maine for a third straight day. >> in texas, the freezing temperatures knocking out power to more than four million customers. >> power is out, water is out,■ç >> there's no fire wood

anywhere, no stores open. >> residents using blow dryers and heaters to thaw their frozen pipes-- >> no water. >> enduring freezing temperatures any way they can, some dangerously using cars or grills for heat. >> for the millions bundled up with no electricity, this has been life for days. >> in this room in our house, it is 33 degrees. >> in austin, andrew leahy and his wife finding ways to keep warm. >> you'll see a blanket here and blue scotch tape. we're doing anything possible to keep the heat in. >> trevor: all right, people, this, no matter what anybody says, is awful. i know people were praying for texas to go blue, but not like this. i mean, is it too much to ask for just one apocalypse at a time? covid is bad enough, and now texans have to deal with their homes turning into meat lockers. this shit is unfair. their pipes are frozen, temperatures are below zero, ice is everywhere-- forget texans. this would be too much for elsa. let it go.

no, hell, i'm going to aruba. you saw that news clip-- some people are putting up scotch tape and blankets. that's not how people should keep heat in their house, that's how you hide the weed smell from your r.a. what's been so devastating about this blackout, is when the terrorist went out, it affected everything. people were struggling to get heat. they're still struggling to get food, and they're struggling to get water. their leaders have stepped up in their time of need to tell them to stop bitching. >> the mayor of colorado city, tim boyd, has are swriend after getting backlafn from a facebook post from yesterday. in that post he wrote, "it is not government's responsibility to support you in trying times like this. he said those without power or water should step up and come up with a plan to stay safe. >> he said they owe you nothing, and only the strong will survive, the weak will perish." >> trevor: damn, that's one

way to be a leader, tell people to fend for themselves during a disaster. that's some next level. even ifed with joe sprayed his people with water once in a while, he's like i've got a heart. here's the question: why did this guy want to be a mayor if he didn't want to help people? you don't become a doctor and then be like, "transplant your own heart, bitch! why do i gotta do everything?!" now, the backlash was so fierce, that this mayor immediately resigned. and, honestly, it's probably safer for him now that he's gone. because if you think frostbite is bad on your nose, you should see what it does to an exposed asshole. now, after the people of texas are done d.i.y.-ing their own power plants, they'll probably want to know why this catastrophe happened in the first place. and while freak storms can't be prevented, it looks like texas could have done a lot more to prepare for this will havity. >> officials with the council that manages most of texas' grid says that outages are due to the state's natural gas suppliers

not being able to tolerate such low temperatures. >> power plants are not performing as expected, especially natural-gas-fired power plants in texas right now. many of the thermal power plants, like natural-gas-fired power plants, coal-fired power plants, and at least one nuclear unit, are not producing energy. they're suffering outages. >> some people would point to the fact texas had its power supply deregulated back in the 90s, and you would say critics say that because these businesses were focusing on profits they were not necessarily concerned with maintenance to prepare for a worst-case scenario like we're experiencing right now. >> texas is the only state to use its own independent power grid. that means it does not have federal regulations that might have better prepared texas for an event like this. >> trevor: that's right, the main reason texas has plunged into darkness is that its natural gas industry has been

crippled by this storm. and that might, might have been preventable, except that texas deregulated it's power supply in the 90s, which was clearly not the wisest decision. i mean, trust me, as a man who lived through the 90s, you should rethink most of the decisions you made in that decade. but, you see, this deregulation led to a lack of oversight that could have helped to keep the infrastructure maintained. but, instead, for some reason, there are more people keeping tabs on britney spears than the texas power grid. and this just goes to show you can't put profits over quality and safety. money is not worth a whole lot if you have to burn it to keep warm. look, the fact of the matter is, this situation is kind of embarrassing for texas' leaders. this is the state that pride itself on its oil and gas industry, and now, that industry has failed spectacularly. this would be like jason momoa needing help opening a pickle jar. which is probably why state officials and their allies on

cable news are working so hard to blame someone else. >> the blackouts that are in texas are being made worse by the failure of wind turbines, many freezing cutting output in half and it's raising questions about the lone star state's increasing reliance on renewable energy. >> the windmills failed like the silly fashion accessories they are, and people in texas died. >> think about if we were in the a.o.c. world. fast forward ten years, and everything is solar, everything is wind. if you don't have power to keep you warm, you're going to-- you're going to-- you're going to die. >> a preview of what could happen if the a.o.c. vision were applied throughout the united states. >> the green new deal book a deadly deal for the united states of america. >> trevor: okay, this, this is ( bleep ) insane. these guys are so desperate to

let fossil fuels off the hook, they're blaming a.o.c. and the green new deal-- which hasn't even happened yet-- for something that's happening in texas right now! but this just shows you, no matter what happens, no matter how far removed she is from the problem, conservatives■ç can and will always find a way to blame the boogeyman, a.o.c. rick perry could have broken his arm as a kid and blamed it on a.o.c. ( perry ) aagh, my arm! damn you, a.o.c.! ( person ) who's a.o.c., kid? she hasn't been born yet, but■ç wait, you'll see. now, it's true that many wind turbines in the state did freeze during this storm, but they only accounted for about 12% of the lost power in the state. placing all the blame on wind power here is like blaming the jet's record on the water boy. i mean, i guess he could have handed out water better, but i don't think that's why they lost. and even though these wind turbines failed in cold weather,

that doesn't mean wind power is a bad idea. it just means that texas didn't have turbines made for cold weather, the same way it didn't have oil and gas plants made for cold weather. i mean, there are cars sliding all over the roads in texas right now because nobody there has snow tires, but i don't hear the governor saying "wheels are unreliable, so we need to go back to flintsone cars." but, clearly, conservative anger at a.o.c. and green energy is disingenuous. the good news is it's led to an amazing breakthrough that might just solve texas' energy problems forever. >> here innergon, we're developing energy you can always depend on. our new technology draws power from america's most renewable resource-- the insane hatred of a.o.c. >> ocasio-cortez. >> add oak. ocasio-cortez.>> ocasio-cortez. >> our environmentally friendly extraction methods allow our

turbines to convert the most paranoid strantings about representative ocasio-cortez into consistent power that will never run dry. if anything we might get too much energy. >> people like alexandria ocasio-cortez, these are important people, if we like them or not. they have people listening to them. >> and the future is bright because soon our technology will tap even more pockets of conservative anger, like cancel culture, mail-in ballot, and gay disney characters. texas innergon, their hatred is your heat. >> trevor: all right, when we come back, dulce sloan tells us about kamala harris' secret family. secret family. you don't want to miss it. i browsed eight sites for divorce attorneys today.

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1900s when black students barred from white fraternities and sorority decided ( bleep ) you, we will do our own thing. >> it was founded in 1908 on the campus of howard university, and that is the very same chapter that our vice president was initiated into. >> so educated black women gathering in the early 1900s, and nobody got arrested? >> well, no one got arrested. but there was resistance from the administration of howard university. >> i'm sorry, you're telling me that a historically black college did not want black women students to organize as a group. >> well, there's something called, you know, sexism. >> and never forget about the misogyny. misogyny be damned, the sororities continued to grow, and so did their demand. >> the very first act of the deltas coming together in 1913 was the march in the famous

women's suffrage parade in washington, d.c. we knew that some of the organizers of that march wanted black women to be segregated and march in the back, but black women refused to do that. >> that's a weird kind of paradox that black women live in, when it's, "i'm going to a black college, but they don't want us to organize. and then as a woman, i'm trying to get the white vote, but because i'm dealing with white women i have to deal with us being segregated." so we sit here and say, ♪ who is going to hate us today these women could have stuck with high teas but they're out in the street demanding antilynching legislation and marching for fair jobs and voting rights. again, the list of men and women of divine nine read like black folk trading cards: >> shirley chisholm, barbara gordon. >> tony morrison, u.s. representative lauren underwood, coretta scott king.

>> reverend jesse jackson. >>■ç the reverend warnock. >> you have seen us and didn't know you were talking to us. >> the divine nine have people in the white house, has people in the media, and has been behind every social movement since the early 1900s. listen, this is a safe space. you can tell me. are you all the■ç black illuminati? ( laughter ). i know you can't tell me, right, but give me a... or... >> i'm staying out of this conversation. >> we don't have to be seen to serve. >> yeah! that's what the illuminati is, girl. they're out here working and you can't see them. >> we can't claim to be members of the black illuminati. i think what you're seeing is what we've seen for over 100-plus years-- we're grooming people to go out and impact the communities that they care about. >> okay, fine. these groups, which the network

insists i cannot call "the black illuminati" has spent over a century to prepare black women to run shit, so of course it's a big deal that one of their numbers is now second in the line to run the country. >> i think little brown girls like myself grew up, you know, imagining people in the white house looking like me, but to have the true example, it's just amazing. >> you know, we have been seeding the soil of this country for so long, hoping that we'll see something bloom. but we never knew if it was going to. we didn't know if it did, if someone would just uproot it. but now with vice president kamala harris, we see a future that's embodied. we see the results of all of that work and blood, sweat, and tears. >> absolutely. i am just-- i love you. let me just say i love-- >> i love you back. >> it's really, really beautiful to be able to share, even this moment with these ladies right now. >> it's an extension of kamala harris.

what we have known for centuries about black women. we have led the way. and i think it's a moment for us. >> the story of kamala harris and the story of the women of the divine nine boils down to one lesson america keeps forgetting: we've been out here. i'm talking about all black women, including those in a group whose work may sound like a secret-- >> you've seen us and you didn't know you were talking to us. >> but only because y'all haven't been watching. >> it works. >> trevor: thank you so much dulce. when we come back, author heather mcghee explains why the real cost of racism actually is, and i mean doll

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anyone who is within ear shot of me for, like, the last five, six, seven years of my life. but i do not have the time nor the commitment to do any of the research to back up any of my claims. and my claims are simple: number one, i believe that racism costs everyone, especially white people, a lot of money. and it costs all of society money. and i've always said to me that racism is one of the craziest concepts to me because it causes the people who oftentimes harbor the belief to hurt themselves. so, i welcome you to the show because you've done the work behind this. you've actually done the data science behind it, and you've written the took entitled "the sum of us." tell us what the book is about and why that title is so important. >> i wrote this book because after nearly 20 years of trying to find solutions to economic inequality, and our big problems in society, i kept running up against a wall. and i kept asking myself, "okay, why can't we just seem to have

nice things?" and by "nice things" i don't mean hover craft or laundry that does itself. i mean universal health care, public health systems to handle pandemics, reliable infrastructure in a country with so much wealth. i immersed myself in the research and it turns out that racism is at the core of all of our most-vexing public problems. >> trevor: as i've traveled throughout the world, the countries where they have the most fair ideas are the countries where they also have the most homogenous populations, where they believe everyone should have because everyone is like me. it feels like it is easier for people to not believe that life is a zero-sum game when they think that everybody is benefiting because everybody should benefit. talk me through some of that and what you discovered in your research. >> that's exactly right. the book is called "the sum of us" because at its core, when we say "racism" it's the world view that our society is a zero-sum game, that progress for people of color has to come at the

expense of white people. a dollar in our pocket has to mean a dollar less in theirs. and, of course, economically, that's just not true. just last year, citigroup found over the past 20 years, the racial economic divides-- which are here because of policy, past and present-- cost this country $16 trillion. but i kept hearing it across the country, when i talked to people. i went to mississippi, and talked to a factory worker named joey who explained that his white coworkers voted no to join a union that would have given them better wages and benefits because the mentality was, if the blacks are for it, i'm against it. that has been the over-arching ideology and world view of many, if not most white americans, according to the public opinion data, really, particularly, since■ç the civil rights moveme, you know, sort of forced them to share the spoils of a country that used to be basically the

benefits were for white only. >> trevor: you know, you have run think tanks and you've worked in the world of just looking at the numbers. but for this book, you combine the numbers with the personal stories. whqtd!method to get a person to understand that racism is costing them money, even though they're the one being racist? >> you know, it calls to mind a visit i had with a woman named bridgit. ththis is a white woman who spet her whole life working in fast food, living in kansas city. and she bought the us versus them, people in the inner city story, and because of that, i think, in many ways, she actually didn't believe that she herself-- minimum wage work-- was ever going to be worth more than $7.25 an hour. but she was approached by workers who were organizing with the "fight for 15--" $15 an hour-- and she went to the first

organizing meeting. she saw a latina woman stand up and describe her life-- her bad plumbing in her apartment, having three kids and feeling trapped. and she said, "i saw myself in her." and bridgit came to realize it wasn't a zero-sum game. as she said, black, white, or brown, it's not us versus them. for me to come up, you have to come up, too. she said as long as we're divide, we're conquered. and that movement, the cross-racial fight for 15 has been unlocking what i began to call the solidarity dividends, these gains we can achieve, but only when we link arms together across race-- higher wages, cleaner air, better funded schools-- for everyone. >> trevor: in america, one of the things that intrigued me the most because it was similar to south africa was the story of the public swimming pools. you see, i even have stand-up bits about this where i would say racism is such a powerful drug, that it would make white people drain swimming pools, the thing that they loved more than anything, they decimated them.

you've used this as the center, you know, like the through-line to the book and the telling of the story. why are public pools the perfect example of how racism hurts the people who oftentimes are the most racist. >> i went to montgomery, alabama, where there is this park in the middle of the town called oak park. and it used to have one of the nearly-2,000 grand resort-style public swimming pools that were built in the 20s, 30s, and 40s, at a time when it was just one little symbol of a big government commitment to everyone having a high quality of life. this is when the sort of american dream really took root. the swimming pool was public. it was funded with tax dollars. and, yet, it was segregated. during the civil rights movement, black families said, "hey, what about us?" and instead of integrating it, the town of montgomery closed the swimming pool, drained the public pool, filled it in,

actually closed the entire parks and recreation department. trevor, they even sold off the animals in the zoo ( trevor laughing ) and they kept it closed for a decade. the entire 1960s. >> trevor: it's wild. >> it's wild! but it is the perfect example of the way that racism has a cost for everyone. it feels like in america, ever since the civil rights movement, we've all been sort of dealing with living in the bottom of a drained pool. it feels like since then-- and the evidence bears this out-- we have seen white people with their votes turn their backs on the formula that created the great middle class, that would have made all of our lives better, because they would have to share it with people they'd been taught-- and that's the key, that they'd been taught-- to disdain and distrust. >> trevor: you know what i also enjoyed about the book sulay out the possibilities. you lay out the conversations that need to be had.

and you lay out all the economic benefits. before i let you go, one of the interesting things you propose is having some sort of truth and reconciliation commission where people talk about these things. as a south african i saw the benefits and i've also seen the shortcomings of not doing something post the conversation. walk me through why you think america would benefit from having some sort of truth and reconciliation commission? >> so we have a country-- the united states was born with this view of a zero-sum racial hierarchy built into the economic justification for stolen land, stolen people, stolen labor. this is a very old idea. and, yet, we've never gotten on the same page about our history. so i think it's not possible for us to actually move forward if we're still contesting the basic facts about our history, and even our present. so, obviously, we have to have a sort of truth effort. but it can't just be a commission in washington. what's so exciting to me is that it's happening at the community

level. you've got to take action, but you also have to start with telling the truth, and that's what's been robbed from us. our truth in this country is so much more terrible but also because of the overcoming, so much more beautiful than we've been allowed to truly know. >> trevor: hopefully, reading your book will be the first jurno that-- first part of that journey, because i think it's insightful. it's wonderful. it is optimistic, but it's also truthful at the same time. heather mcghee thank you so much for taking the time and congratulations on a fantastic book. >> thank you, trevor. thank you so much. >> trevor: heather's book, "the sum of us: what racism costs everyone and how we can prosper together" is available now. okay, we're going to take a quick break, but we'll be right back after this.

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hurricane harvey. he said the need is tremendous and anyone can drop in for two hours or two days. they have food and blankets. his 10-year-old granddaughter is helping him. he said, "i'm trying to teach her the essence of living is giving. that's what we do." - ♪ i'm going down to south park ♪ ♪ gonna have myself a time ♪ both: ♪ friendly faces everywhere ♪ ♪ humble folks without temptatio ♪ - ♪ i'm going down to south park ♪ ♪ gonna leave my woes behind ♪ - ♪ ample parking day or night ♪ ♪ people spouting "howdy neighbor" ♪ - ♪ headin' on up to south park ♪ ♪ gonna see if i can't unwind ♪ - ♪ [muffled] ♪ - ♪ come on down to south park ♪ ♪ and meet some friends of mine ♪ - well, you boys must be pretty excited-- your first night of scouts. - it's gonna suck. there's gonna be all these new kids there we don't know. - yeah.

- well, now, that's part of the fun. - yeah, both kenny's dad and i were in scouts for years. - was your dad in scouts, cartman? oh, yeah, you don't have a da [all laughing] - that's not funny! jesus christ! - are you excited for your first night of scouts, timmy? - yea timmy! - yeah, he's excited. - heyfellas. - hey, butters. -oy, am i glad to see you guys. there's lots of kids here fr other schools. ion't know anybody. - all right, boys. we're gonna head the bar. we'll be back to pick you up a9:00. - you boys just make sure to obey the scout leader, now. he's the man charge. - hello, scouts! - hey, it's big gay al - hello, stanley, i was happy to see you and your little friends' names on the list. - timmy! - you're e new scout leader? - i just go transferred in. i think everyone's here now, so we canget started. come , scouts, we've got work to do. all: hooray! - see ya, dad. - hey, are you parents gonna stand there all night? this meeting is for scouts only, you sly gooses!

now, before we get started, scouts, i want to introduce you to someonvery special here tonight. he's a brave little boy with disabilities, who proves just by being here that scouts are for everyone! - timmy! - so let's allll give a big round of applause to little jimmy! -ell, hello, everyone. [applause] - j-jimmy? - look, i'm not sying the new scout leader's a bad person. i just don't think he should be a scout leader. - he got to whe he is by being a good scout. maybe we should just leave him alone. - well, how gay is he? - he's really, really gay. - well, then i on't want my boy there either. - so he's a homosexual. so what? - have nothing against homosexuals either, randy, but the big camping trip is next week. are you saying you're fine with this guy camping overnight, alone, with our boys? - yo know, boys emulate authority figures. even if it doesn't turn them gay, they can end up all talking all fem' and prancing around like girls. - ah, that's ridiculous. - people, people, please! you're forgetting that homosexuality is a choice.