Trevor Noah Can't Believe That Trump Can't Believe the Climate Report.
“How can one man possess all the stupidity of mankind?” Trevor Noah said of the president.
‘Superhuman Stupidity’
After emphasizing the urgency of a new federal government report detailing the threats of climate change, Trevor Noah on Monday played a clip of President Trump saying he didn’t accept the report’s findings. Noah became exasperated.
“How can one man possess all the stupidity of mankind?” he said. Riffing on another news item from the weekend, in which a Chinese scientist claimed to have produced the world’s first genetically modified babies, Noah said about Trump:
“It’s like they edited his genes to give him superhuman stupidity. The scientists in the lab were like, ‘Well, what should we give him, superhuman strength?’ ‘No, that’s dangerous to society, no, no, no. Let’s make him really stupid, what’s the worst that could happen?’” — TREVOR NOAH
Then he turned his critique on the news media, lampooning journalists for focusing on estimates of how much damage climate change would do to the economy.
“I love how America always thinks about everything in economic terms. Like even when they talk about the end of the world, they say, ‘Climate change is going to kill everybody — and that’s going to cost us like a billion dollars!’” — TREVOR NOAH
Noah attacked networks like CNN for welcoming nonscientists with ties to the oil and gas industries to argue against the report.
“Where else would we accept this? If someone told me, ‘Hey Trevor, these test results say that you have cancer, but I’m not a doctor, I think you’re fine,’ trust me, I would not be like, ‘Oh, you’re not a doctor? Carry on, carry on. Tell me your thoughts on my health.’” — TREVOR NOAH
“Think of it this way: When Maury Povich brings someone on, if the DNA test says you are the father, then that’s it. The science has spoken. He doesn’t go, ‘All right, we’ve done the DNA test, but in your opinion, Lavar, why are you not the father?’ Because he knows dudes would be like, ‘Well, first of all, ’cause it’s expensive. And second of all, look at that baby’s head.’” — TREVOR NOAH
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/27/arts/television/trevor-noah-trump-climate-change-report.html?
This man is a DELIGHT! (aside from the topic of the day)