In The Daily Show’s first episode after Donald Trump was declared the victor of the 2024 presidential election, correspondent Desi Lydic reacted to the results.
“If you’re just joining me in this waking nightmare, yesterday was election day. We were all hoping it would make history and boy, did it ever,” Lydic said, sharing a news clip of an anchor announcing that Trump will be “the first convicted felon to be president of the United States.”
“Yeah, it’s official. America’s elected its first criminal president before electing its first female president,” Lydic said. “What a day for proud felonists.”
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Lydic continued, “What the actual f---, America? We have had two qualified, accomplished women nominated for president and both times they lost to the worst man in the whole country. It’s starting to feel like we’re going to get every other first before we get a first woman president.”
“First Amish president. First, uh, Wahlberg president,” she listed. “Hey, there’s no rule that says a dog can’t be president. As long as it’s a boy dog.”
Lydic ripped into the media “blame game” around Kamala Harris’ defeat, showing clips of pundits citing contradictory reasons for why Harris lost.
“Who f---ing knows?!” she replied. “This defeat was so resounding that you could literally say anything and it wouldn’t be implausible.”
“Honestly, I don’t really care why she lost. I care why he won,” Lydic said. “We spent so much time diagnosing Donald Trump and what his actions say about him: He’s a dictator, he’s a fascist, he’s a malignant narcissist whose blood type is fryer oil. But it’s pretty clear that America is the one that needs the diagnosis, because whatever’s wrong with him, we f---ing love it.”
Lydic concluded, “In this moment, Donald Trump is holding up a mirror to the American people and it might be time to take a good f---ing hard look.”
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