Desi Lydic sarcastically thanks Trump for Mississippi's Senate flip
Her Daily Show segment travels from Jensen Huang's exit at Nvidia to a beef-price campaign ad and the judge-turned-senator Cindy Hyde-Smith once blocked.
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- 0:00Lydic recaps Jensen Huang's resignation from Nvidia as more affair reports surface.
- 1:29Colette Kress steps in as Nvidia's interim CEO, and Lydic considers her new job.
- 2:14Sen. John Kennedy explains the midterm loss on Fox News with a bathroom analogy.
- 3:01Coverage projects Scott Colom flipping Mississippi's Senate seat from Cindy Hyde-Smith.
- 5:10Lydic explains how Hyde-Smith once blocked Colom from becoming a federal judge.
- 7:23A mock-serious speech before a flag sarcastically thanks Trump for the result.
Desi Lydic ends her segment standing before an American flag, mock-solemn, thanking Donald Trump for running the country so badly that Mississippi voters were moved to make history. It is a sarcastic tribute, and it closes one of the most watched new videos since yesterday, with about 3.3 million views.
The road there is winding. Lydic opens with Jensen Huang's resignation from Nvidia as reports of his affairs keep multiplying. "This man is a nesting doll of adultery," she says, before nodding to Colette Kress, the interim chief left to handle the aftermath.
Then comes the midterm wreckage for Republicans, by way of Senator John Kennedy on Fox News: "A smart man washes his hands after he urinates. A wise man doesn't urinate on his hands." Lydic takes the image and runs with it.
The heart of the piece is Scott Colom, projected to take Cindy Hyde-Smith's seat and, as the segment notes, the first Black senator elected in Mississippi in 150 years. Lydic explains the twist: Colom wanted to be a federal judge, and Hyde-Smith blocked him. The show plays her boasting about it and telling voters they had blocked him from the Senate too, then cuts to the projection that says otherwise.
Colom's campaign ad gets its own spot. Answering Hyde-Smith's remarks about beef prices, an actor decides that picking another senator beats picking another protein.
The comment section moved fast, nearly five times busier than the channel's usual first day. Most of it is about Lydic herself, with many viewers calling for an Emmy submission, plenty congratulating Colom, and a good number singling out the beef ad as the best joke of the night.
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