Trevor Noah rips Fox News for creating made-up scandal against Cory Booker
The Daily Show host Trevor Noah did a segment on the ruckus that Fox News is creating against Booker this week, using sarcasm to drive home the insanity of it all.
Sean Hannity and his cohorts over at Fox News have been stirring up the pot after learning that White House contender and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) is a vegan. The Daily Show host Trevor Noah did a segment on the ruckus that Fox News is creating against Booker this week, using sarcasm to drive home the insanity of it all.
“What I have really enjoyed so far, is some of the ‘scandals’ that plagued democratic candidates,” Noah said during Tuesday’s segment. “Because with Trump, his scandals are so massive and exhausting—it’s like sex with a porn star, conflicts of interest, corruption in his cabinet. It’s been refreshing to have old-school silly scandals again.”
“Maybe the most shocking scandal roiling the Democratic party right now is that Cory Booker is a healthy eater,” Noah added, before airing footage of several Fox News reports that focused on an exclusive VegNews interview in which Booker discussed veganism.
“I don’t even understand how this is on the news,” Noah said. “I say if Cory Booker wants to be a vegan president, he should go for it.”
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The segment then tore apart a made up statement that Fox News has aired alleging Booker will ban meat if he is elected president. Sean Hannity even went as far as to warn Americans that they would need to stockpile meat in the freezer in the event of a Booker win.
Noah played a segment of Jesse Watters, Sean Hannity, and other conservative pundits’ “news” reports, when they made the absurd warning. “He wants to be the most powerful person in the world, and he wants to impose his meat rationing on the rest of us,” former MTV VJ Kennedy reportedly said, according to VegNews.
Noah said he feels the worse for people who really believe Fox News.
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“I feel so bad for people that take Fox News seriously,” Noah said. “It’s got to be so much work because they’re always telling you that the Democrats are coming for your [expletive]. You gotta stockpile a lifestyle supply of meat; you’ve gotta stockpile guns; you’ve gotta keep your fossil fuels, your bibles, American flags, [and] Confederate statues. There must be one closet at your house that’s just chaos. Fox News is like reverse Marie Kondo. Just put everything in your house as long as it sparks rage.”
Watch the entire Daily Show clip below:
