Chieng aired an AI clip shared by the president last weekend that shows House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) with a mustache and wearing a sombrero as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), in remarks backed by mariachi music, slams transgender people.
“What the fuck did I just watch? Trump is making fun of a Black man for being Mexican? It’s almost too confusing to be racist. It’s like putting a headdress on the Twin Towers,” Chieng quipped.
“I don’t even know what you’re trying to say! I don’t have the racist math skills to solve this equation. I’d never thought I’d say this, ‘But Donald Trump, can you be better at racism?’”
Chieng — who called for a “serious and sober-minded” Trump to find “compromise” with Democrats to end the government shutdown — gave props to Jeffries for denouncing the “disgusting” video on MSNBC.
He then turned to the response from Trump, who shared an AI version of the MSNBC clip that again portrays Jeffries with a mustache and a sombrero while deepfake versions of the president appear to play mariachi music behind him.
“Goddamn, this makes even less sense but is even more funny? What is the bit here? So Hakeem Jeffries is Mexican now, and so is Trump, and they started a mariachi band?” Chieng asked.
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“I mean, maybe this is them coming together. I mean … this is President Trump’s way of outreach to the other side. Like, he’s trying to signal that they can work out a deal at band practice?”
Watch more of Chieng’s Wednesday monologue on “The Daily Show.”
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