Trevor Noah Stumbles Into Some Truth with Biden Jokes
2 May 2022
BUCK: White House Correspondentsโ Dinner, let me tell you, I went to itโฆ Gosh, it was 10 years ago. I vaguely remember the year just because there may have been some Buck doing Gangnam Style at the BuzzFeed party. I donโt know. There could even be video of this that existed at one point. Do you even remember Gangnam Style? It was a phenomenon. The team here remembers. It was everywhere.
I think at one pointโฆ I think Psy was the name of the music act, right? And it was at one point the biggest YouTube video of all time or close to it. It was up there with like Katy Perry andโฆ Anyway. Right? You guys let me know if Iโm off. Anyway, it was the first to a billion views on YouTube. There you go. Producer Mark has got me. First to a billion views.
So I went to the correspondentsโ dinner. I donโt even remember who I sat with or what I was doing there, and I just remember being really bored the whole time. The good news, though, it was so early in my career that no one had any idea who I was. I was workingโฆ I had just started at The Blaze, TheBlaze.com at the time as a writer, and so I got to just be there and almost like sink into the background or the wall.
No one had any idea โ and this boring. I donโt know. You get to sit there and hear a bunch of libs congratulate each other on, โOh, weโre doing journalism. Weโre so brave!โ Trevor Noah was emceeing it this year, and I am fair to comedy, and there were some decent jokes that I saw made. Look, I cannot tell a lie. All right? I will not lie. There were some decent jokes that were made.
Here was one that didnโt really land as well they wanted โcause people are not pleased with the economy and donโt really find the price of everything to be humorous. So this goes into theโฆ I donโt know if this was the right direction for the White House Correspondentsโ Dinner of fancy people.
โSince youโve come into office, things are really looking up. Gas is up, rent is up, food is up! Everything!โ
BIDEN: *laughs* pic.twitter.com/Chtdwotnrs
โ RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 1, 2022
BUCK: Everything is up, and weโll talk more later, I think, about the price of fertilizer, which is one of those things that doesnโt seem necessarily โ you hear that you go, โOh, price of fertilizer.โ Yeah, itโs food production. And food production globally is gonna be in a very different spot. Youโre gonna see prices go up dramatically.
One thing that very few people were talking about in the early days of the Russia-Ukraine war was how much grain comes out of specifically Ukraine. Ukraine was always โ and this even goes back to the Soviet Union era and before that โ the breadbasket, if you will, of, well, then the Soviet Union and before that the various states that came before it.
And now you have obviously a dramatic lessening of production of grain coming out of the country. You also have far less fertilizer coming out of Russia, even though I donโt believeโฆ Fertilizer is not one of the things that is on the banned list, but the Russians are just producing less, theyโre sending less, and that means the price of all of that is going up.
Which means your foodโs about to get a whole lot more expensive. So maybe I am talking about fertilizer now. Come back to this a bit later. But the Biden administration is completely incapable of coming up with any strategic solutions to these things. And even Trevor Noah, who I will say is a generallyโฆ
He has pretty much destroyed The Daily Show as something that is culturally relevant. I mean, I know thereโs some people who watch it, but itโs not funny, heโs not very funny, itโs not very good, and he even feels that there are jokes to be made about Bidenโs ability to get things done.
BUCK: I mean, thereโs truth there. The reason โ you could tell some people are groaning a little bit, but itโs true. Do you remember how much you heard about Build Back Better? (impression) โGonna be great, no joke, itโs gonna work. Weโre gonna Build Back Better.โ He would do this within keep saying this over and over again, โJobs, world class jobs for the folks, you know, the folks with the jobs.โ
You can see that Biden has been giving up the same folksy, rolled-up sleeves at the dinner table with you. Heโs good old Joe from down the street. I mean, actually made, what, $17 million after he, like, finished being in the White House as VP, โOh, yeah, he knows! He knows the struggle.โ Guyโs been living on a senatorโs salary for his whole life. Heโs okay.
It hasnโt been that hard. But he was saying that Build Back Better was gonna change everything. Now what are we supposed to think about the fact that his own party, Senators Manchin and Sinema, prevented it from going through. There was a funny joke last night, actually, about how it was great for the journalists to all be gathered together in the same room with the most powerful man in the world, Joe Manchin, which was pretty amusing, I will say.
I will give them that. See, thatโs the thing. There are occasionally they made some funny jokes. But overall, I donโt think the country is in a particularly amused mood right now. And I think that some of the jokes about things like the trajectory of the economy? Mmm-hmm. I also think that this notion of a White House Correspondentsโ Dinner where they all sit around with the politicians they cover and weโre supposed to pretend that this is that this isnโt some club of people that all think the same things and are congratulating each other? I think that this is kind of gross, honestly. So not enough funny, not enough worthwhile.
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