“Daily Show” correspondent Michael Kosta ripped President Donald Trump on Wednesday for making the Department of Defense seem “weaker” after signing an executive order to give it a secondary nickname: the Department of War.
“Not a good sign when a country suddenly sets up a Department of War, what’s the president trying to tell us about what’s going to happen?” Kosta said.
“It’s like when your doctor asks you come in and discuss your test results in person. Uh, why? So we can high-five over how few STDs I have?”
Kosta mocked the president for describing the DOD name — which the department began using in 1949 — as “woke,” joking that it was a “famously woke time period in American history.”
“I guess wokeness is also why we lost in Vietnam, huh? Big mistake to carpet bomb that country with DVDs of the Black ‘Little Mermaid,’” he quipped.
He then played a clip of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s “funky” remarks on the rebrand.
“We’re going to go on offense, not just on defense,” said the former Fox News host in rap-like comments in the Oval Office.
“Maximum lethality, not tepid legality. Violent effect, not politically correct.”
Kosta, who responded to Hegseth with raps of his own, pitched another nickname for the Pentagon with a “maximum lethality” vibe.
“That name’s not scaring anyone. Pentagon? That’s just a pretentious square. You want the world quivering in their boots? From now on, it should be —,” he began before using a deep voice effect and a fiery circle appeared around him.
“The Polygon of Doom!”
Check out more of Kosta’s Wednesday monologue on “The Daily Show.”
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