Trump Ignores 60-Day Iran Deadline & King Charles Urges Congress to Do Its Job | The Daily Show

First of all, later on, I'm gonna be joined by civil rights attorney Sherrilyn Ifill is gonna be joining us.I'm excited to talk to her.We're gonna break down all the Met Gala looks.And if time permits, the erosion of voting rights in America.All right, obviously, I'm not at the Met Gala.Tonight wasn't invited.

My invite, uh, was rescinded in, like, 1997.

So I'm invited this year.

Apparently, my body is, quote, not compatible.As you get older, your body changes.You know what I don't look good in anymore?Is, um, pictures, I think, is what...Ladies and gentlemen, obviously the big news continues to be our situationship with Iran.Is it a war?

Is it a ceasefire?Are we friends with bomba fits?Because as you know, Friday marked the expiration of the 60 -day free trial period presidents get to do wars.After 60 days, the president must ask Congress, who then decides, are we subscribing?Are we just going to use Israel's password?Imagine, it's going to be big news when Trump asks for official permission.

Trump signaling he will not seek official permission from Congress to extend the war with Iran.

What?Seek official permission?I was kind of under the impression that that's not his choice.That it would be, I don't know, illegal.Then I remember Donald Trump doesn't give a f**k about legality or any accountability that may occur from said illegality.So much so that he felt confident confessing to said illegality in a speech in Florida on the day he was supposed to attain congressional approval.

What they call a military operation.You know, they don't like the word war.And they call it a military operation because that way you don't have a war, you don't have legal problems.

And you almost have to admire the brazenness of a president just casually explaining just a thing, how to get around our pesky, uh, laws.It's not a care in the world.It's like going up to a McDonald's cashier.Yeah, I'm gonna get a cup of water.Uh, well, uh, I say water.It's because I don't like to use the word soda.

If I say water, I get it for free, but to be clear, I will be drinking soda.But my plan is to use the word water to avoid any, uh, what you call payment problems.Of course, Trump's plan only works if he has the discipline to maintain his assertion that we are, in fact, not in a war.You know, we're in a war.Same!Same!

Here's how I get around being a war.We're in a war.He's just sitting there.He's just looking the cashier in the eye, filling up his cup with soda.I'm just gonna get a little Mountain Dew, a little Pepsi, a little...I don't know what the root beer one is.

A little Mountain Dew, a little Pepsi, a little Barks, a little Hi -C.I'm going to work!By the way, it's all purposeful.These are not mistakes.These are the machinations of a genius.He'll tell you himself, as he did this weekend.

I'm the only president to take a cognitive test.You know, the first question's very easy.It's a lion, a giraffe, a bear, and a shark.They say, which one is the bear?

You're the only president to take the cognitive test.Let me ask you a question.Why do you think that is?That you're the only president that that happens to?That for some reason, every time you go to the doctor, which is a lot, the doctor's always like, hey, while you're here, If you could come over here and just explain very quickly which one of these is the bad.Let's hear more about this totally believable test you keep acing.

They say, take a number, any number.Okay, I'll take 99.Multiply times nine, okay?Divide it by three.Good.Add 4 ,293.

That's good.Divide by two.Subtract 93.Divide by nine.There aren't a lot of people that get it right.I got it right.

So it was bare.No, Trump is a regular Stephen Hawking.That's what it is.Although I thought the only thing they had in common was being in the Epstein files.But I'm sorry, I apologize.Too soon?

Or should I say, the monkey can handle it.He seems to be almost getting smarter with age.Because this is how he handled math questions 20 years ago on the Howard Stern show.

All right, I'm going to ask you a tough question.Wharton School of Business.Yes.What's 17 times 6?Come on.What is it, human calculators?

See, that's not a practical... 96?

Wrong!94?Wrong!

That's not a practical application, though.Ivanka, 17 times 6?

It's 11...It's 11 -12.

1112 isn't a real number.That's two numbers just placed side -by -side.I guess it's the 2000s equivalent of 6 -7.So, I apologize.I know you're a genius.Try again.

112.112.

It is 112?

112.

Yeah.So that is a number, but it's still wrong.It's 102.But somehow, we're supposed to believe that 20 years later, you've turned into a f---- - genius.You've turned into a working -class janitor at MIT solving quadratics between mopping up.You know, I can't believe they ever gave Trump the FIFA math prize.

So...See, Trump is a special genius that sees himself above all traditional presidential limitations.He's not bound by our petty checks and balances and separations of powers.He has ignored 31 lower court decisions, not including 250 more rulings in immigration cases.He's festooned the people's house with trappings of a Versailles -themed bar mitzvah.He has built a Kim Jong -un -esque giant gold statue of himself at his Doral golf course.

He's gonna be on our f***ing list.Our f***ing passports.Our passports.Whenever you go abroad, whenever you travel overseas, you're gonna have to tell a customs officer, I don't know you.How out of control are Trump's royal ambitions?So bad that last week, an actual king, born of the lineage of kings we fought to establish our constitutional republic, had to come back here to remind us to wake the f...

I come here today with the highest respect for the United States Congress, this citadel of democracy, created to represent the voice of all American people to advance sacred rights and freedoms.

Oh, shit!No, you didn't!The British word for cylinders.I don't...I don't...But you heard him!

And then Charles did us dirty with a list of all the hard -fought constitutional principles we are squandering.

The principle that executive power is subject to checks and balances, the rule of law, the certainty of stable and accessible rules, an independent judiciary delivering impartial justice.Let our two countries rededicate ourselves.

All right, all right.It was all very powerful until you hit the rededicate.The separation of powers that we must rededicate.I'm going to stop you before you go full Tootsie Pop Owl.Would you give a country before we get to the...Standing in front of a car.

asking it to regate itself to the principles of constitutional checks and balances.But Congress won't.Congress won't do that because they suck.Congress has completely abandoned any serious oversight of our military operation.They've still not passed a full budget.They've passed fewer laws than any Congress in the first year of a presidency.

In our history, they haven't done anything.Well, that's not totally fair.

We have another bird alert, and this time it involves something that happened on Capitol Hill.These birds were in the hot seat during a House hearing led by Idaho Republican Congressman Mike Simpson.The hearing was meant to highlight efforts to preserve these birds of prey.

That's what it is intended for, but instead, it ended in tragedy.

Jump, Lindsey, jump!

The congresspeople still showing up for bird shows are the best of them.Some of these people don't show up for anything.

GOP New Jersey Representative Tom Kaine Jr. hasn't voted since March 5th.Kaine has missed more than 50 votes.Top GOP leaders are in the dark.It's a mystery in the Capitol building.Fox contacted multiple members of the House GOP leadership.None had any idea about Kaine's whereabouts.

One member of the Republican brass told Fox that Kaine's absence didn't worry them, quote, until you called.

You know the saying around here, that's just more birds for us, huh?What little government even means to any of them.This is who was designated survivor, who would be tasked with rebuilding our nation if the worst had actually happened at that White House correspondence dinner.

The person who would have theoretically taken over control of the United States government as president of the United States, if something would have happened to everybody in that room, would have been Senator Chuck Grassley, who is in his 90s.

Designated survivor who will lead our country Into the future.The guy who will lead our country into the future statistically doesn't have much of one.Actuarial tables -wise, he would not be expected to survive an uneventful evening.Too soon?If you're hoping that our judiciary will step up and be the guardrail against Trump's kingly ambitions, watch a bunch of nominees for confirmation to our federal court system refuse to do so.

Mr. Mark, if I might, just tell me about the 22nd Amendment.What does it provide?

I haven't had an opportunity to use that one, specifically.

It states no person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice.Mr. Mark, is President Trump eligible to run for president again in 2028?

Senator, without considering all the facts and looking at everything, depending on what the situation is, this, to me, strikes as more of a hypothetical.

Is he eligible to run for a third term under our Constitution?

I would have to review.

Did you get F3?Do you really have to do the math on that?A person trying to be confirmed to the United States judicial system, is the answer 11 -12?Is that what you're looking at?It's...What do you have to review?

It's...It's not a trick.

Anybody else brave enough to say that the Constitution of the United States prevents President Trump from seeking a third term?Anybody willing to apply the Constitution by its plain language in the 22nd Amendment?Nobody.All right, let's move on.

The Congress isn't coming to save us.The judiciary isn't coming to save us.The voters are being gerrymandered out of being able to save us.We've only got one last card to play, our beautiful fourth estate.Democracy dies in darkness.So we look to the free press, the newsies, the ink -stained wretches, the masters, the clickety -clack brigade, tappers, rappers, wolf -blitzers, titty -twisters to bring the tough questions that hold the politicians accountable.

I just think that, uh, because of all the firepower required for epic fury, that there are people in the White House who are starting to worry about our inventory of bombs and missiles.Are you worried?

Solid question.The New York Times just discovered that since the war began, the United States has burned through half its long -range missiles, plus 1 ,000 Tomahawk missiles, which is nearly ten times more than we buy each year, plus thousands more of pretty much every other type of missile that we have.Experts are getting worried we're depleting our stockpiles.So, Mr. President, are we running out of weapons?

No, no, we have...more than we've ever had out there.Because all over the world, we have inventory, and we can take that if we need it.Right now, we have more than double what we had when this started.

That sounds like bullshit.Is it perhaps what you're saying is in the beginning of the war, we had only this one ball?And then, we spent a month using that ball.We used it to bomb every place in Iran we could think of.And now, at the end of that time, we find ourselves...Clearly, this makes no... sense.

It's nonsensical, on its face.And the reporters have all the specific reporting to back that up.The follow -ups to this nonsense are gonna be brutal.The G7 is in France in June.

Will you go to it?Probably.

It should just be this.What did the G .G.say?And he said, the G7 is a month from now.It'll be on his schedule.

Follow up on the... missile thing.You still support a pardon for Pete Rose, sir?Oh, I get it.You're prepping him with nonsense to lower his defenses before you come into hard facts about a war he's clearly bullshitting about.Go.We're so f***ed.

And by the way, what is the point of having to shout your questions if you're not gonna listen to the answers?We need you to help us litigate the boundaries of our reality, not move on to Pete f***ing Rose.Can someone from the foreign press jump in?

I love you, Mr. President.Mr. President, thank you.Thank you, Mr. President.

What, they give Chef Boyardee credentials?Mr. President, Italy has a question for you.By the way, that reporter is not actually Italian, he's Kurdish, but this was the only accent we felt we could safely do.I genuinely don't understand what this country is becoming.When every one of our institutions are failing us, is there any hope for the liberal democracy that has inspired the world for these past 250 years?Is there anyone who can recall the lessons of our American Revolution and inspire this nation to return to its founding principles in this, our 250th year?

Let our two countries rededicate ourselves.

If the strongest defender of American democracy is the king of England, we are really fucked.