Simon Pegg
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
I mean, you'll never run out of white South Africans when one of them is making 5,000 kids a week. But still, Trump thinks there is one, and you know he cares about it because he said white genocide. It's like someone told him, hey, it's not just a genocide. It's a white genocide, you know, the bad kind. And Trump's like, oh shit, get him in.
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
My guest tonight is a screenwriter, comedian, and actor who stars in the film Mission Impossible, The Final Reckoning. Oh my God, please welcome Mr. Simon Pegg.
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
I am very touched. In a good way. Yeah, thanks for coming on the show. Oh, my pleasure. Always a pleasure. What's tougher, making the movie or doing the press afterwards, man?
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
Yeah, I know. I don't know what day it is.
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
All over the world, right?
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
Thanks for coming. My pleasure. Thank you so much. I want to talk about one thing. Maybe the only thing we might have in common is you used to do the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. I did. Back in the day, live performer, doing stand-up comedy in these bars. I used to do the Edinburgh Festival, too. Did you? Yeah. I was at the Underbelly.
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
You hand out flyers begging people to come in to your show. And then maybe three people will come. And you're in this makeshift cave with mold and asbestos. And you're doing comedy with three people. And then you go watch other people's shows. And you drink all night. And you wake up the next day. And you do it all over again.
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
What's harder, that festival or Mission Impossible?
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
And then you go from that Edinburgh, which I was also. But my point is like you're with your goldfish in this small little room in this closet and then you're in Mission Impossible.
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
But don't worry, South African president, there's a way out of this. Cutter got Trump a plane. What sweet, sweet bribe did you bring him?
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
Edgar Wright and the great Three Flavors Cornetto trilogy, starting with Shaun of the Dead, which was a kind of, I think, landmark independent comedy. I mean, was it independent? I mean.
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
Yeah, and that was, I mean, quite a label of love.
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
And I mean, you know, that's such a triumph of independent comedy filmmaking. And, you know, we look at, we're in 2025 right now, and we kind of look back on films with a lot of nostalgia, sometimes rose-tinted glasses. I mean, do you feel that was a moment in time? Is that replicatable?
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
Thank you.
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
They disagree. But, um... Boom! I will say, the one thing about... That is completely true. And all it takes is one really cool film to get people out again. And then you remember what it was like.
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
Because I forgot for a while until I went out to go watch a film again. I was like, oh, yeah, this is great. This is a wonderful thing to do. It's way better watching it on my toilet. On the toilet, you know? Mission Impossible on your toilet is just... Never watch Mission Impossible on the toilet.
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
Because it is kind of edge of it. See, I don't know. You talk about security with George Moreno. Yeah, man, they're on me for this. I can't give away any spoilers. I'm scared to talk about this. So am I. Yeah. So I don't know what we can say about it. Tom Cruise has a sniper on me. 24-7, in case I spoil the movie. I mean, I can, I guess, I'll keep talking until someone drags me away, I guess.
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
But, I mean, the movie is this current Mission Impossible, The Final Reckoning, part two, I guess. Yeah. Right? And it is, I mean, there's so many callbacks. It ties into all the movies.
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
Yeah, you that up. You lost Trump at book and you definitely lost him at kilograms. If you really want to impress Trump, you should have given him one of your golf courses. Then Trump would be like, hell yeah. Sorry, white South Africans, if that's even a real thing. Thoughts and prayers. Let's move on from a fake international crisis to a real domestic one.
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
Can we even say it?
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
I mean, I got to ask, like, when you're on, you know, Mission Impossible's kind of like the flagship movie franchise right now. When you're on it, is it, because you went, you know, you've not only seen Edinburgh, you've seen independent filmmaking. Yeah. When you're trying to get enough money to get a camera rolling. But in Mission Impossible, where it's just like...
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
just take this money, just keep spending this money. Like, did you see struggle on that? Or it's just like, just whatever it takes to get this thing made?
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
I know. He really does risk it. And there's also something with Tom Cruise films lately, I think, that where he's really brought this like analog. I don't know. Can you describe what that, you know, that love of movie making is that he gets this look or this feel?
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
He just goes... But he does that, but he also stays in character, which is crazy, because he's hanging off a plane.
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
Yeah, it's very impressive. No, it is very cool. The movie is very cool. Thank you so much for making the movie. Thank you for everything you've done. Thank you for making Child of the Dead. Thank you. Thank you for everything.
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
I really appreciate it.
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
If you bought any Trump merchandise, I don't want to surprise you, but it might be a piece of junk.
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
What a shocking story. I mean, truly, I did not expect them to be able to read. And you might be thinking, what kind of respectable horological craftsman of luxury timepieces would allow this to happen? Well, it turns out watches might just be their side business.
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
Wait, everyone, shut up. Stop laughing. That's boner honey? This changes everything. I mean, I guess this does explain why that honey I bought looks so weird, but, um... You know, Trump's gonna be bathing that like the Baron in Dune, but I... I just hope that those watches have like a little warning label on them like you do for people with nut allergies, like warning.
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
This watch was manufactured in a plant that also processes honey. The point is, when Donald Trump sells you something, you gotta be skeptical. And I'm so glad we all learned our lesson. On an unrelated note, Donald Trump's got something new to sell us.
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
Good news, everyone. Congress is cutting food stamps, but we're getting a Golden Dome. Yeah. If you're hungry, maybe you can try eating it. Uh, quick question, though. Where did Trump come up with Golden Dome?
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
You know, it takes a special leader to look at what's going on in Israel and be like, hey, we need to copy those guys, all right? Because it's going great. Second of all, I don't think missile defense shields work like frequent flyer programs, all right? Hey, check it out. Our dome just earned gold status. I hope China doesn't get a platinum dome. Then they get lounge access.
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
I'm Roy Cheng. We got so much to talk about tonight. America gets some dome, Republicans deal with their daddy issues, and something associated with Donald Trump went wrong for the first time ever. So let's get into the headlines. Let's kick things off with President Trump's meeting with the president of South Africa today. And because it's Donald Trump, things got weird. Death. Death.
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
And by the way, the poster board he put up just raises even more questions. Like, why is every country launching missiles at us? Starting to look like a us problem. But you know what? I guess the money is worth it if it's capable of defending all of America.
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
Gonna have to be selective. Like, what are we gonna do? Like, what, just save New York and LA and what, the states of good barbecue? Actually, yeah, yeah, that works, yeah. Let's go with that. The bottom line is, it's incredibly expensive and it doesn't work. But at least we'll have a Golden Dome that says Trump on it. Ah, .
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
For more on the Golden Dome and whether it's cost effective, we go live to Grace Kuhlensmith. Grace, Grace, let's be honest here. Is the Golden Dome really worth the price?
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
What, we're spending half a trillion dollars just so we can roast our enemies?
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
Okay, Grace, Grace. Grace, you might wanna hold off on ripping our enemies.
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
Grace.
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
Grace. Grace. Isn't this the problem with missile defense shields? It just encourages aggression.
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
Okay, okay, Grace, Grace, come on. Canada's not even the enemy.
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
Grace, you do know that the dome isn't ready yet, right? Like, it won't be active for a while.
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
No, I like at least three more years at best.
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
Welcome back to The Daily Show. We all know I've got great opinions, but it turns out I'm not the only one. Studies show that other people also have opinions. So here with another installment of In My Opinion is our good friend Charlamagne Tha God.
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Trump Blasts South Africa for “White Genocide” & Trump Merch Needs a Spell Check | Simon Pegg
What a host. Death. Death. Death. Hey, do you want a Diet Coke? Death. Horrible death. That's... Now, the reason Trump turned this White House event into a murder podcast is that Trump is convinced that there is a white genocide going on in South Africa, which of course means there is no white genocide happening in South Africa. It's not even mathematically possible.