- the dmv was shut down today after rampant allegations of sex with young boys. the heads of the dmv were arrested, and the director stated, "hey, it came with the territory." with the dmv shut down, americans have been asked to confess all wrongdoings at their nearest post office. we've just received word that the u.s. postal service has been shut down due to rampant allegations of sex with young boys. it now appears that the only people who can be trusted with confessions and guidance is your local news station. wmz news will be back in... a young boy. ♪ ♪ >> announcer: coming to you from new york city, the only city in america, it's "the daily show." tonight... president barack obama is here! and barack obama! and did we mention president barack obama? this is "the daily show

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happening right now, i don't think we have enough space in today's show. there is not enough time. and i tried everything. i even tried putting the news in the sauna so it could sweat it out for a little while but it didn't work. the news just came out glistening and sexier than ever, so we still don't have enough time. fortunately though, not enough time is just enough time for a segment we call "ain't nobody got time for that." ♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] all right, let's kick things off with the moon, a.k.a. ashy earth. the last time humans set for on it was 1972 but now, we might finally getting a sequel. >> nasa going back to the moon for the first time in five decades. launching the most powerful rocket in the world into space, kicking off its high stakes artemis 1 mission. this is a test flight with test dummies. but if this succeeds, astronauts could do the same in two years. >> nasa says that this really opens the door to a whole new

world of space exploration. the long-term goal here is to set up a base on the moon where people can actually lift. >> trevor: yes come on mike crypto, we are actually going to the moon! and before you start saying, do we really need to go back to the moon? yes, we do! of course we do! buzz aldrin left his keys up there. dude has been locked out the house for 53 years. i was thinking, wouldn't it be funny if when we got up there, we found out that the original astronauts did a bunch of crazy shit that they didn't tell us about? an astronauts step out and there is a much of moon babies that look like neil armstrong. they are just like "daddy, you are finally back from your trip to get cigarettes!" wait, why are you still babies? now as much as i love space travel -- and i really do, my one issue with nasa is, why do they keep using greek names? this program is artemis, the old one was apollo. why doesn't nasa update things, you know? name rockets after today's mythical heroes.

"everyone, we are sending artemis to the moon," boring. "everyone, we're sending john wick to the moon." hell yeah! shit is about to go down! now if we had more time, we could talk about whether humans should be going anywhere in the universe given the fact that we can't even get covid under control down here because if we are not careful, we might turn into the conquistadors of the solar system. is their life on mars? there was. [coughing] we don't have time to talk about life forms on space because there are new life-forms coming to congress. >> house speaker nancy pelosi just said that she will not seek a leadership position in next congress, her decision comes after republicans on my control and house of representatives in the last election. >> with great confidence in our caucus, i will not seek reelection to democratic leadership in the next congress. >> trevor: that's right. it is a new era in congress, nancy pelosi is stepping down and republicans have officially won's control of the house, and this time, they did it without shitting on the floor, that its

growth, that is growth. kevin mccarthy might be happy right now that he could replace nancy pelosi next year as speaker of the house, but remember, half of his caucus believe in jewish space lasers that stole the election using venezuelan mind control. so good luck to him controlling them. yeah, he's going to be trying to get more tax cut for corporations, meanwhile, they will be like... "boo! we want to investigate hunter biden's penis! put that penis under oath!" and you have to deliver on your campaign promises, that is a challenge. the number one issue they campaigned on [bleep] joe biden. now that they want, voters will be expecting them to [bleep] joe biden. they have to do it. they have to go through the steps. they said it, not me, yeah.

they have to pass a bill to ask him out, they have to agree on a restaurant to take him to. then when they take them home, they have to listen to his stories before he lets them smash. "let me tell you about the time i was by the pool --" yeah, good luck keeping a hard on through that, republicans. if we had more time, we could talk more about all the news coming out of america's politics, for instance, we could talk about the senate moving closer to protecting gay marriage, finally. or we could talk about becoming first mayor, and we can talk about whether the next speaker of the house will be able to beat nancy pelosi's high score on the stock market but we don't have time for that because there is one man who, god forbid, might be joining these people in the capital and boy, will he be bringing the greatest hits. >> i watch this movie called "fright night," some type of night, it was about vampires. let me tell you something that i found out. a werewolf can kill a vampire, did you know that? i never knew that. i don't want to be a vampire anymore, i want to be a werewolf. so i was watching my tv, their

kids are watching their tv, threw it on the vampires or had come he covered his eyes and took his hand away. he started laughing. he put it on the vampires' forehead and the vampire didn't do anything. he said, that don't work. it doesn't work unless you got faith. you got to have faith in this country, got to have faith in the elected officials, and right now, that is the reason i am here. [audience reacts] >> trevor: step aside, gettysburg address. america has the new greatest speech of all time. because you tell me the last time you heard a speech about vampires, werewolves, faith, politics, and garlic! and i don't know if herschel walker should be a u.s. senator, but he should definitely be elected as america's official movie reviewer. did you hear that? i want to watch that movie. i don't even know what it was. he should do this for every movie. "yellow sea know a little mermaid? this woman was a fish, and we need a new voice in washington,

and now that little mermaid is black. thank you, ladies and gentlemen." [cheers and applause] now if only we had more time, we could watch more of herschel walker is a speech or we could talk about how elon musk said that he will eventually let someone else run twitter which is a genius idea that everyone else had before he took over twitter. or we could talk about how this ftx crash could actually bring all of crypto down because the regulators looking into crypto. or we could talk about how congress might be bringing ticketmaster and for hearings because i guess, they couldn't get taylor swift to take to get either. but we don't have time for that because there is someone backstage by the name of barack obama. don't go away. [cheers and applause] [epic music] [lights turn off] ♪ [dog feeder beeps] ♪ ♪ bom-bom-bom-bom ♪

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[cheers and applause] >> trevor: welcome back to "the daily show." our guest tonight is here to discuss the inaugural obama foundation democracy forum and how he is training the next generation of young leaders in the u.s. and around the world. please welcome the 44th president of the united states, barack obama! [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] >> mr. obama: thank you! thank you!

[cheers and applause] thank you! thank you very much! thank you! thank you! thank you! yeah. that's right! [cheers and applause] i should have brought michelle here. [cheers and applause] greeted when i come home. >> trevor: [laughs] >> mr. obama: absolutely. >> trevor: mr. president, welcome to "the daily show." >> mr. obama: it is wonderful to see you! >> trevor: do you miss your name, by the way? everyone calls you "mr. president" but i feel like if people called me "mr. daily," i would miss being called trevor. do you miss your name? >> mr. obama: my best friends call me barack.

>> trevor: okay. >> mr. obama: you should call me mr. president. [cheers and applause] >> trevor: [laughs] welcome to the show. let's start with the most pressing news, the midterms just happened, you know, america voted, the house is flipping, democrats have held onto the senate. you still see the places where people got into power despite the fact that they deny elections. i think a republican have 117 election deniers into congress. what you think it says about american democracy that so many people aren't getting locked into these positions when they seem to dismiss the election itself? >> mr. obama: the interesting thing is, you notice election deniers don't deny their own election. funny how that works. [laughter] how many of them actually believe some of the nonsense that circulates versus those who think it is convenient or it is a way to own the libs or a way to send a message or align themselves with trump? that's hard to say.

but what is important is that because of some really concerted efforts in a lot of important states, some of the most egregious, prominent, and potentially dangerous election deniers, they got thumped, they got beat. particularly in the secretary of states races and in some cases, governors races, where the next presidential election, you could have somebody who could really do some damage. there, i think we held the line. what it does say more broadly is the fact that, not just here in the united states, but around the world, the fundamental precepts of democracy are being challenged. >> trevor: right. >> mr. obama: we are not having arguments about policy, but we are having arguments about the rules of the game, which previously, we all agreed to. there was a notion that we run elections, whoever gets the most votes actually wins, the loser

concedes, goes back and tries to do better next time. and what we have seen now for a whole host of reasons is a creeping sense that if the outcome is not what we want, then we can do whatever we want and say whatever we want in order for us to win. and that is profoundly dangerous. as i said, it is not unique to the united states, but when it happens in the united states, it sends a signal all around the world that weakens democracy, and that is why i think us getting our house in order is so important. >> trevor: when you look at the discourse in the country, and around the world but again, i think you are correct that america is the leader in what is happening right now, the discourse has become so toxic. where do you think that is coming from? you think it is social media?

you think it is a tenor of politicians in the capitol? >> mr. obama: two things. the biggest change that is taking place, when i ran for, let's say, u.s. senate in illinois, you go down state, that is the south. it is rural, it is conservative, there aren't a lot of folks who look like you or me. and certainly -- [laughter] there are more trevors than there are baracks. >> trevor: [laughter] >> mr. obama: and i am driving around, i've got a map -- for young people, it's this paper thing, you can't figure out how to fold it back, but it is how you find your way on roads. but i would go into a town and it would be 70% republican, a lot of evangelicals, et cetera, but i could go to a diner or a vfw hall or a county fair, i could go to the local newspaper and the owner there is conservative, and he's got a bow tie and buzz cut, and he's kind

of skeptical about my ideas, but there wasn't the filter that had been created by fox news or the media infrastructure, the sort of right-wing conspiracy theory folks, and so they came at me with an open mind. and i could listen to them and they could listen to me, and at the end of the day, they might say, well, he's a little liberal for our tastes, but we have something in common. he talked about his mom getting sick, i remember my mom getting sick. it seems like he loves his kids, i love my kids. there was some sense of connection. and i think the filter now has become so thick. it started, i think, with fox news and some of the other, you know, traditional media, and now with social media, that has gotten turbocharged. if you go into those same

communities now, they have so many preconceptions about what somebody like me believes, cares about, et cetera, that it is very hard to penetrate. so i think the answer is both thinking about information flow and media and how can we break through that information bubble that people are in. that requires, by the way, progressives to get out of their media bubble. because we've got some preconceptions that i think create barriers as well. and then working a lot more locally, because you notice that when you are on the ground, doing stuff, it is harder to stereotype people. and the nationalization of our politics, i think, has been damaging. the more we can focus on grassroots efforts, real world rather than just virtual

meetings, conversations, that is what, over time, i think can help strengthen democracy, and that is part of what it has been at the foundation with young leaders who are working on the ground, coming up with new ideas to create those connections. >> trevor: i definitely want to speak to you about that, want to speak to about democracy worldwide, i want to speak to you about disinformation and what we can do to immunize ourselves from it. but we have to take a quick break. we'll be right back with more from president barack obama. [cheers and applause]

[cheers and applause] >> trevor: welcome back to "the daily show," we are still here with president barack obama, chatting democracy, disinformation, and who is better looking between

us. i won. [laughs] let's start -- [laughter] >> mr. obama: the real question is, how will he look when he is 60? [cheers and applause] 61? [cheers and applause] [laughter] i mean, everybody is attractive when they are in their 20s and 30s. you know, come on. [laughter] >> trevor: i am almost 40, sir. >> mr. obama: almost? >> trevor: almost. >> mr. obama: that doesn't count. live a little bit. >> trevor: i plan to. let's talk a little bit about your foundation, let's talk about what you have done, we see you out there, we see you talking about democracy. the world is in a really interesting place, in that, a few years ago, i think that the world was at 49, 50% of the world, you could say that countries were democratic, they had elections, people won those elections, there was an exchange of power, et cetera, and now i think 70% of the world is living in a state where they either are ruled by a complete autocracy or it isn't a democracy.

two things, again. one: why do you think the world has gotten there? you know, if democracy and freedom are things that everybody wishes to have, why does it seem like the world is moving away from that? and then secondly, what can we do or why should we then try to get back to this democracy? >> mr. obama: if you look at the trendlines, there are a bunch of factors, i think. globalization, the global economy disrupted a lot of traditional societies. >> trevor: what do you mean by disrupted? >> mr. obama: well, the global supply chain eliminates industries, eliminates jobs. >> trevor: got it. >> mr. obama: increases the wealth gap, not only between countries, but within countries, right? so and then modernity challenges people's traditional notions of religion, family, and gender roles. and you've got these culture

clashes, right? you're in some village in yemen and suddenly your kid has a phone and is looking at the kardashians. and so you get this vertigo. what happened -- what you have seen happen, i think, in a whole bunch of places, is essentially a pushback, a backlash to change that is happening too fast for their comfort. and when people are pushing back against change, then they are vulnerable to politicians who say, you know what, i can make things just like it was back then. when you were feeling more important. you had higher status, you know, you didn't have people who don't look like you suggesting somehow that, you know, you are doing something wrong. that somehow your traditions are flawed, and that appeal usually

also involves saying the problems you are feeling are somebody else's fault. it's those folks there. it's the immigrants, it's gays, it's hindus, it's muslims, it's so forth and so on. and that then gets turbocharged with the information issues that we talked about. and look, democracy requires, by definition, getting along with people who don't agree with you, to become one of the biggest challenges of democracy is not just the mechanics of elections or the independent judiciary. those things are all important. but this is why this information and media issue is so important, because what we have seen here in the united states and elsewhere is an abandonment of a commitment to facts and reason

and logic and stuff that is useful. >> trevor: [laughs] some would say necessary. >> mr. obama: necessary. and if we can't have a debate based on facts, then we can't get to a better solution. we start talking in slogans and nonsense and there is no reality check. >> trevor: do you think it is possible to get to those place? when almost half the country says, what are those rules and why are you even deciding them? why are we having this conversation? i honestly mean, how do you get to that place with people? where you can agree with them? >> mr. obama: the interesting thing is, even in those places that are just inundated with what i consider to be nonsense and lies and distortions, when people operate in their own lives, they are still operating on facts.

so we abide by all kinds of facts in our lives, it is just this national story that is being told where we allow lies to be told and we accept them mainly because it turns out when we tell a story about the other side, it makes us feel better. like, oh, trevor, he is a jack ass, you should see -- >> trevor: using me as an example. >> mr. obama: you happen to be sitting there. [laughter] and so we enjoy the performative aspects of making stuff up. and part of that is because we don't think there are consequences to it. now what we have learned from the election of my successor, from the pandemic, from the insurrection, it is actually the stories we tell do matter. i like to think that part of what happened in this election is people said, okay, you know what? some of the stuff is getting a little too crazy. it turns out that there is a

majority of the country that does prefer normal, not crazy. and that is a basis for hope. [cheers and applause] >> trevor: i could talk to you for hours about this, i know you don't have the time. it has been wonderful having you here. i wondered if maybe you have any tips for me as, you know, because, you and i, we are basically the same, you know? we are basically the same. [cheers and applause] >> mr. obama: you know, i think -- i guess what i would say, though, is that you will be missed here. [cheers and applause] but we were talking backstage, you are already following one piece of advice that i would have, is, leave when when your poll numbers are high. that is how they will remember you. [cheers and applause] >> trevor: [laughs] i am excited. i'm going to go on the road.

>> mr. obama: yes. >> trevor: i've said this to you before. whether it's the white house correspondents' dinner, and georgia when you are doing this speech, you are a very funny guy. >> mr. obama: so you want me to open for you. [cheers and applause] >> trevor: in chicago -- you know what, not even open, i wouldn't dare. you can't open for me. you are still mr. president. >> mr. obama: banter. >> trevor: combine the tour. half-and-half, you know? [cheers and applause] [laughter] >> mr. obama: i like that. >> trevor: we can do it. >> mr. obama: we can do it. >> trevor: president barack obama, everybody! we have to take a quick break, we will be right back after this. [cheers and applause] thank you so much. [cheers and applause]

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