“This is one of the wildest things ever,” Trevor Noah said Monday night. daily program. And while the bar couldn’t be higher when it comes to Donald Trump scandals, he wasn’t exaggerating.
The host was talking about the recent death of the first ex-wife of the former president, Ivana Trump. “Well, it turns out that Donald may have managed to turn even that into a scam,” Noah said, explaining that Don Jr., Eric and Ivanka’s mother burial at Trump’s golf club in New Jersey it may have been an elaborate way for the business to avoid paying taxes on the land.
“Woof, woof, woof, woof,” Noah said as the audience groaned. “A lot of people say, ‘I’ll pay taxes on my dead body!’ Trump is serious. Just someone else’s body.
The host said this feels like a “step too far” for Trump and that he “wouldn’t even laugh” at the idea if it was a bad joke premise.
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“If someone told me, ‘Donald Trump’s ex-wife died, he’s probably going to bury her on his golf course to save on taxes,’ I’d say, ‘That’s not cool, man,'” he added. “But it turns out that Trump said, ‘Say more… I’m going to send this to my accountant.'”
Later in the segment, Desi correspondent Lydic managed to turn an even better joke about the scandal into an unrelated part. “God, I feel sorry for all the Trump wives,” she said. “Even in the afterlife, they still have to deal with their balls coming at them.”
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