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Trump Hits 100 Days & Canada Celebrates By Electing the Anti-Trump | Katherine Maher
Wed, 30 Apr 2025
On Trump’s official second 100th day in office, Jordan Klepper delves into his lack of follow-through, including the division he’s sown, his back-and-forth on tariffs and firings, and taunting Canada until they elected a liberal prime minister. Trump let Elon Musk take a chainsaw to the federal workforce in order to save taxpayers money, but after hearing from some of the government employees who lost their jobs, Desi Lydic is starting to think the real waste, fraud, and abuse was living inside DOGE this whole time. NPR CEO Katherine Maher joins Jordan Klepper to stress the important functions of public media that are under threat from the Trump administration, especially educational children’s programming and local reporting in rural areas where public radio is often the only source for local news. She also defends NPR’s journalism against critics who claim it is liberally biased, while extending an invitation for more conservative voices to express their perspectives on NPR, and emphasizes that the mandate of public media is to serve the whole population of the U.S., which includes diverse and underserved communities.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 1: What happened during Trump's first 100 days in office?
I'm George Clapper. We got so much to talk about because today is a big deal. It's the 100th day of Donald Jonestown Trump's second term. We're at cruising altitude, people. The seatbelt sign is off and the pilot is aiming straight for the mountainside. So, let's get right into it.
There may be a little disturbance.
Yes, it has been 100 days of Trump in the Oval Office. I mean that figuratively. Obviously, he spent lots of those days in the steam room at Mar-a-Lago. Picture it. I'll wait. Can you see him glistening? Picture it. Ooh, yeah? Yeah? Ooh, put it in your head. Put it in your head. Don't make me put up a picture, all right? I'm doing it. Yeah. Yeah. Even hotter than your imagination, huh?
What were we talking about? Right. It's Trump's 100th day. I think.
Tuesday will mark President Trump's 100th day in office. President Trump's 100th day in office is coming up this Wednesday.
Tuesday is going to mark President Trump's 100th day.
Wednesday marks the 100th day.
On Wednesday of this week.
It's actually Tuesday. Wednesday, April 30th.
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Chapter 2: How did Canada respond politically to Trump's policies?
Hockey moms, hockey dads, hockey non-binaries, hockey seniors, hockey hockey players, and of course, hot Ryans. But the winner of all this anti-Trump energy was new Prime Minister Mark Carney. And his victory is all the more impressive when you see that he is not the most traditionally electric candidate.
A system that, while not perfect, has helped deliver prosperity for a country for decades is over. We are over. We are over the shock of the American betrayal, but we should never forget the lessons.
But you're going to take us forward.
We have to look out for ourselves.
Wow. This lady was trying to be his hype man, and he's like, ma'am, please, this is a victory party. This is no place for excitement. Was Mark Carney doing that the whole campaign? What do we do? Fight! No, no, no. Quiet down. That was rhetorical. It's not what this is about. But look, let's step back for a minute, because here on the 100th day, it might be worth taking stock of where we are.
Because right now, all the vibes are terrifying. Trump is overreaching, he's breaking rules, he's ignoring judges, he's collecting all the infinity stones, he convinced the Pope to do the eat a hot dog without chewing challenge. Rest in peace. You lost fair and square, Pope, sorry.
But if there's one silver lining to this Dictatory 100 days, it's that when anyone pushes back, he folds like a cyber truck in a fender bender. Like this, look at what happened with his tariff policy. He's been hyping up tariffs for decades. It was the centerpiece of his campaign last year.
The most beautiful word in the entire dictionary of words Is the word tariff. I love tariff.
Tariff.
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Chapter 3: What examples illustrate Trump's backtracking on key policies?
All right. Wow. Now, when I first saw that, I thought, here we go. Some dictator shit's about to go down. But then, same old story. The markets got spooked, and then so did Trump.
Never whatsoever. Never did.
Never did? I love Jerome. I did say he's a major loser, but in a friendly way. Hey, my loser. You know, no hard R. I mean, it's good that he backtracked, but it does make it a little awkward that he already called him an incompetent loser. It's like hearing someone say, that guy is the worst, dumbest moron I have ever had the displeasure of knowing. My days are darker and sadder in their presence.
Anyways, I do. Look, the point is this. The point is, the point is, Trump basically does the presidential version of posting a picture, then deleting it if it doesn't get enough likes. Which makes it all the more frustrating to see so many law firms and universities and companies bending the knee to Trump. They don't have to. Chances are, if you push back, he'll take it back.
Either that, or he'll send you to El Salvador for a few years. But then you get a selfie with Kristi Noem, so it's worth it. When we come back, Desi Lydic prepares for the Dogepocalypse. So go away. Welcome back to The Daily Show. We all know how uncomfortable it is to listen to Elon Musk, but how bad is it to get fired by him? Desi Lydic sat down with some people who found out.
If there's one thing Americans know about, it's waste. In fact, 89% of Americans agree that our government is full of it. So Donald Trump empowered Elon Musk to create the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, and go through our government with a fine-toothed chainsaw. The chainsaw for bureaucracy. To cut budgets and fire thousands of federal employees.
We're cutting down the size of government. We have to. We're bloated, sloppy.
So I sat down with some of these fired bureaucrats to see if they felt any remorse for wasting taxpayer money. What would you say that you did for the government?
Would it fall under waste, fraud, or abuse? So I was in charge of helping essentially keep American consumers from getting ripped off by financial companies.
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Chapter 4: How did Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) affect federal employees?
A lot of people do.
By eliminating your position, how much money was saved for the taxpayers?
The taxpayers didn't save any money by eliminating mine. The money that we have, under my leadership, actually returned is over $30 billion to the Treasury.
I'm no mathematician, but that sounds pretty good. We've gotten $21 billion back in restitution and relief to Americans who were scammed by their financial companies. And it's even better because we don't cost taxpayers a single dollar.
Chapter 5: What roles did the fired government employees play before their dismissal?
That's right. These guys were hunting down fraud, waste, and abuse way back when Elon still had his original... personality. So you were the original Doge.
Well, I don't like to call what the IGs do what Doge is doing. IGs work by standards.
Is there any part of you that's a little upset because an immigrant actually did steal your job? No?
No.
Why should we fund a National Institute of Health?
The things that NIH studies, you know, diabetes, aging, mental health, addiction, it's literally the epicenter of biomedical research for the entire planet. I do think there are ways that we could cut back on inefficiency, but you don't use a chainsaw to do that. You use a scalpel.
This might sound crazy, but is the Department of Government Efficiency not that efficient? Speaking of ineffective.
Some of the things that I say will be incorrect and should be corrected.
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Chapter 6: How effective were the government employees at combating waste, fraud, and abuse?
Elon was quickly forced to hit control Z on many of his layoffs, which is the shortcut for undo and not the name of one of his kids.
So the administration decided to put us on administrative leave. And then they just started another round of firing. But since I got fired once already, I was not able to get back into my laptop. So I don't know if I have a letter or that.
So you got fired. And then they essentially sent you a text that said, you up? And you responded, yes. And then they ghosted you? Yep. So are you saying that this government is being run by boys? It also doesn't help that Elon keeps revising down the amount of waste he's finding.
I think we can do at least $2 trillion.
A trillion dollars. Half a trillion dollars. $150 billion.
classic behavior, over-promising and under-delivering. Do you believe that the intention behind Doge is to actually cut unnecessary spending?
If you wanted to take over all of your competitor's business, one way you could do that is you could go to every financial regulator, every government agency that has sensitive data from the private sector. You could suck that data into some sort of AI, large language model, and then you could use it to undercut all of American industry.
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Chapter 7: What criticisms exist regarding the government's budget cuts approach?
Do you think there's any chance that Elon is doing something good with all of our data? Like, maybe with having access to all that data, he'll finally understand the mysteries of the human heart. No.
Well, they've removed the watchdogs. And the danger of that is that Congress doesn't have a transparent way of knowing what is happening within these agencies and departments.
It's almost like they've set out on this journey to find fraud, waste, and abuse when really the fraud, waste, and abuse was inside them the whole time. By the time Elon returns to his day job, an estimated 280,000 government employees could be fired. But despite all the chaos and destruction, there are some things that Chainsaw can't take away.
After experiencing all of this, would you trust the government again? Honestly, yes.
You would? I would. They need people that actually care about the American people.
So you would go back, but after a healthy boundary talk?
Yes.
Thank you, Desi. When we come back, Catherine Marr will be joining me on the show. Don't go away. Welcome back to The Daily Show. My guest tonight is the president and CEO of NPR. Please welcome Catherine Marr. Welcome. Thank you. Good to be here. Happy 100 days. I know. A lot has happened in the last 100 days.
As head of NPR, you were recently asked to testify at the anti-American airwaves hearing.
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