After paying tribute to late Congressman John Lewis on Monday night, Trevor Noah became a “less legendary political figure: Kanye West, the hip-hop superstar and Kim Kardashian’s eldest son.”
“Kanye has been promoting a new presidential disc-bar campaign,” said the host of the Daily Show. “And it didn’t go very well.” (And this was recorded long before his nightly tweet storm.)
From there, Noah played a montage of clips from West’s 2020 campaign launch event in South Carolina over the weekend, during which he openly wept over nearly aborting his first daughter and criticized Harriet Tubman for not helping African Americans more.
“This is officially the weirdest hip-hop meat of all time,” the host said in response. Are you going to go after Harriet Tubman for not getting better slave jobs? What was I supposed to do, run the underground railroad? and LinkedIn?
He then congratulated West on finding a campaign catchphrase that blacks “are even less likely” to wear than one of Trump’s Make America Great Again hats: “Harriet Tubman wasn’t that cool.”
“Honestly, guys, I don’t know what to do with this,” said Noah. “Because my conclusion from this event is that Kanye West doesn’t seem to be doing well. I feel like someone who cares about him needs to take the microphone away from him. Ironically though, the best person for that job is Kanye. ”
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