On Saturday, as thousands of maskless protesters descended on Washington, D.C. for a rally to support President Donald Trump and his baseless claims of voter fraud, a Fox News anchor was left briefly shaken after the network’s cameras caught a racist sign that threatened violence against people of color.
“There was a notable extremist presence at the D.C. protest,” wrote a representative for the Anti-Defamation League about the event, citing attendance by members of the far-right group Proud Boys among other white supremacist elements.
“Wow, this is so strange,” Trevor Noah said about the protest on Monday’s episode of The Daily Show. “Why does the not-white-supremacist president have all these white supremacists coming out to support him? It’s so weird!”
The host added, “Also, it is interesting how now all the Trump supporters are suddenly OK with protesting and blocking traffic. How quickly their attitudes have changed. I bet we’re only three months away from them kneeling at football games like, ‘I will not stand for the anthem of a country that does not support my MAGAness.’”
The protest, which White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEneny had falsely claimed drew more than one million people to the nation’s capital, came after days of denial and misinformation from Trump. Since losing the election to President-elect Joe Biden, Trump has rarely appeared in public and has instead utilized his Twitter feed to express outrage and false claims.
“I WON THE ELECTION!” Trump tweeted, falsely, on Sunday.
“I will say for all the talk about Trump being an aspiring dictator, this is some weak shit,” Noah said of Trump’s incessant tweets. “Like, now is the time he should be taking over all the state capitals, installing new governors, arresting opposition leaders, doing all of that. Instead, he’s just sitting at home trying to manifest a win on Twitter, like a little bitch.”
He then impersonated the outgoing president. “‘I won,’ send. Did that work? How about, ‘I am the winner’? Send. No? Okay, how about, ‘I lost, not!’ That should do it, that’s the one.”
Trump has tried to claim the election was rigged by a broad conspiracy of voter fraud across multiple states. But his legal attempts to prove election malfeasance have been continually slapped down in courts around the country. Noah delighted in the optics.