‘The Daily Show’ Clip: Jordan Klepper Heads to Washington for Trump’s Birthday Parade

For astir 10 years now, “The Daily Show” analogous Jordan Klepper has been connected nan Trump beat, walking acold and wide to rallies, protests, and inaugurations to get nan MAGA faithful’s thoughts connected nan somesthesia of nan nation. In tonight’s version of “Jordan Klepper Fingers nan Pulse,” airing connected Comedy Central astatine 11 p.m. ET/8 p.m. PT, Klepper attends nan caller June 14 subject parade to interact pinch conservatives who gathered successful nan streets to observe some nan 250th day of nan U.S. Army and nan 79th day of nan President.

IndieWire has an exclusive clip from nan episode, which finds Klepper asking nan question, “Was this a subject celebration, aliases much of a ‘make Donny consciousness for illustration a large boy authoritarian leader’ party?” Klepper talked to a assortment of MAGA supporters and recovered that fewer of them saw nan contradiction successful celebrating monolithic backing cuts while attending a superfluous subject parade costing taxpayers a reported $45 million. “That’s a bully usage of your taxation dollars, I think,” 1 Trump instrumentality said without irony.

As usual, Klepper sewage a batch of comic mileage retired of his interviewees’ passageway vision, arsenic erstwhile he talked to a parade goer who sewage upset that nan near criticized Trump for throwing himself an costly day statement when, really, nan parade is each astir nan subject and not nan President — each of this being said by a feline wearing some a Trump garment and Trump pants. “He’s worked difficult and I deliberation a ceremony is successful order,” said different MAGA disciple, who nodded successful statement arsenic Klepper joked, “He’s put successful a 100 immoderate overseas coagulated days of work, springiness him a parade!”

If location was 1 point everyone Klepper talked to seemed to beryllium successful statement astir different than that nan parade was worthy nan disbursal and Trump deserved it, it was who nan Army’s adjacent subject target should be: Southern California. “Which 1 of these tanks do you deliberation we should nonstop to Los Angeles?” Klepper asked 1 of his interviewees, who responded, “I deliberation we should nonstop each of them.”

MAGA cheerleading aside, it’s clear from nan conception that Trump’s parade was, arsenic Klepper put it, benignant of a dud. “It didn’t person nan cold, intimidating scope of different authoritarian displays,” according to Klepper. “All we had was guys holding drones for illustration pizzas and slayer robot dogs who conscionable wanted treats.”

The clip will aerial connected nan upcoming June 17 section of “The Daily Show” astatine 11 p.m. ET/PT connected Comedy Central. Watch nan conception up of clip below.