Olivia Munn Crashes ‘Daily Show’ to Roast Donald Trump’s Tariff Surrender
“Once the world fills the aching hole in his heart, the tariffs will end,” Munn joked.
Olivia Munn popped into The Daily Show on Wednesday to take aim at President Donald Trump’s backflip on global tariffs.
Munn, who had a short-lived stint as a Daily Show correspondent from 2010-2011, was expected to appear as a guest later in the show. But instead, she appeared towards the end of host Desi Lydic’s monologue to sarcastically break down the supposed genius of Trump’s decision to issue a 90-day pause on most tariffs Wednesday, while also significantly raising the tariffs on China.
“Trump knows exactly what he’s doing,“ Munn explained. ”He put tariffs that destroyed the global economy, so then he took them off and now it’s only mostly destroyed.“
She continued, “Now to avoid tariffs coming back, other countries will cut deals with us for better trade terms and our deficit drops to zero. Problem solved.”
“OK,” Lydic said. “I see, and that’s when we drop all the tariffs?”
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“No, b---h,” Munn replied.
Munn jokingly explained the Trump administration’s plan: “Then we hit them even harder: 400 percent tariffs. We bomb their factories. We catch those penguins on that island and we eat them. Then the other countries will really come begging.”
Lydic soon asked, “Olivia, why? How does any of this make up the trade deficit?”
“Desi, baby girl, it’s not the trade deficit,” Munn said. “This is all to make up for Donald Trump’s enormous deficit of attention and love.”
She elaborated, “He’s just a boy standing in front of the world asking to have his a-- kissed. And once the world fills the aching hole in his heart, the tariffs will end.”
“But that will never happen,” Lydic said. “There’s not enough attention in the world to make him feel like a human again.”
Munn replied, “Exactly, b---h.”
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