The Daily Show casts Trump as his own midterm opponent

Desi Lydic, Michael Kosta, Ronny Chieng and Jon Stewart split a catch-up edition that runs from canceled-election jokes to red-dye diesel and clock changes.

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Trump Faces His Biggest Enemy Ahead of the Midterms: Himself | The Daily Show

The title card reads "MIDTERMS CATCH-UP: TRUMP VS. HIMSELF," and the premise is simple. With the midterms closing in, The Daily Show argues that the president's toughest opponent is whoever is holding his microphone. The compilation has drawn about 1.8 million views since it went up 14 hours ago.

Four correspondents share the work. Desi Lydic opens with clips of Trump berating female reporters at briefings and rallies. Michael Kosta follows with Democratic special-election wins and Trump floating the idea of canceling the midterms. That brings in press secretary Karoline Leavitt: "The President was simply joking." Kosta isn't satisfied. "It was a 'you had to be there' thing, but none of us can be there?"

Ronny Chieng takes the segment on Trump's campaign against Republicans he considers disloyal, built around Thomas Massie's reelection loss, and Lydic covers the Justice Department's handling of the Epstein files. Jon Stewart gets gas prices. Trump insists they are not high, and Stewart calls it "gas-gaslighting." He also picks apart the president's stories about admirers praising him on visits to the White House: "First of all, you don't come to the White House. You live there!"

The last stretch belongs to Kosta and the oddly specific. Trump promises rallies tax-free red-dye diesel, then concedes: "I don't know what the hell it is, but whatever it is, it's supposed to be very good." Then comes his push to stop changing the clocks, and a detour into Trump posting Senator Tom Cotton's private phone number.

The comment section has filled faster than usual, with close to three times a typical first day's comments already. Many come from outside the United States, addressed to American voters. Others pick up the clock segment with an old-man-yells-at-cloud joke, or turn to the Jesse Watters clips Lydic uses.

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