Noah Compares Trump to a Dictator...Again

Ryan Foley | May 24, 2019
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During his opening monologue Thursday night, The Daily Show host Trevor Noah reacted to President Trump asking his "very objective employees" to vouch for his positive temperament at the Oval Office meeting with Democrats; where his opponents claimed he threw a "temper tantrum." According to Noah, "this is the kind of sh** that you will see in Africa all the time, like some dictator will be accused of war crimes and then he'll bring his own soldiers out as his defense." This is hardly the first time Noah has compared the President to a dictator; he has compared the President to African dictators such as Idi Amin, Robert Mugabe, and Muammar Gaddafi as well as Adolf Hitler. In addition to comparing President Trump to various authoritarians, he has also compared the Commander-in-Chief to an asteroid, AIDS, Godzilla, and cancer