'The Daily Show' is trolling Trump with a full-page ad in major newspapers

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August 27, 2020 1:04 p.m. EST
September 1, 2020 12:00 a.m. EST
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When November 3 arrives, many in Hollywood are hoping it comes with a moving truck to help take President Trump and his administration out of the White House. Trevor Noah and his team of Daily Show correspondents are offering their legal services to the President in a new full-page ad specially designed to troll Donald Trump.On Thursday, The Daily Show took out ads in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times to offer the legal services of Trevor Noah & Associates & Sons. “Are you a soon-to-be-ex-president? About to lose legal immunity? Has your lawyer gone to jail?” reads the ad, which features an image of Noah backed by Daily Show correspondents and comedians Roy Wood Jr., Ronny Chieng, Dulcé Sloan, Desi Lydic, Jaboukie Young-White and Michael Kosta.Promoting the legal firm’s services, which are absolutely not available in Spanish, the fictional firm offers help with "shady rich guy stuff, mega-corruption, obstruction of justice" and "you told people to inject bleach for some reason." The ad also includes a phone number for the law firm, which connects to an automated message offering callers two options. The first is for the President and includes a recording by Noah. "Hello, Mr. President. I'm Trevor Noah, managing partner of Trevor Noah & Associates & Sons. Have you ever been to Uganda, sir? It's a beautiful country with a strong goat-based economy. And most important, it does not extradite to the United States,” says Noah. “At any time on or before January 20, 2021 I can transport you and any members of your family you actually like to Uganda. I can provide this service for, I don't know, $10 million. Let me know."The second option is for people who are not the President and encourages them to register to vote in the upcoming presidential election. America, please vote.[video_embed id='2023176']RELATED: Pro-athletes launch widespread sports boycotts over anti-Black violence [/video_embed]Only a few hours before the ad appeared in Thursday’s papers, Noah delivered a sobering monologue about the shooting of Wisconsin man Jacob Blake in the back by Kenosha police and the murder of two protestors by a white 17-year-old Trump supporter. "While what happened with those shootings last night is tragic, what happened afterward is illuminating because it made me wonder, it really made me wonder why some people get shot seven times in the back while other people are treated like human beings and reasoned with and taken into custody with no bullets in their bodies,” said Noah, referring to police waiting hours after Kyle Rittenhouse shot and killed two protestors before arresting him."How come Jacob Blake was seen as a threat for a theoretical gun that he might have and might try to commit a crime with, but this gunman who was armed and who had already shot people, who had shown that he is a threat, was arrested the next day, given full due process of the law and generally treated like a human being whose life matters?” asked Noah. "How did Dylann Roof shoot up a church, James Holmes shoot up a movie theater, and both live to tell about it? Why is it that the police decide some threats must be distinguished immediately, while other threats get the privilege of being defused?”Noah concluded his powerful monologue with an answer to his line of rhetorical questioning. "I'm asking these as questions but I feel like we know the answer. The answer is that the gun doesn't matter as much as who's holding the gun, because for some people Black skin is the most threatening weapon of all." Blake was shot in the back seven times on August 23 while trying to enter his vehicle,which contained his three young sons, after reportedly breaking up a fight on the street. The 29-year-old miraculously survived the horrific shooting, but his lawyers have confirmed that the bullets severed his spinal cord and have left him paralyzed. The unnamed officer who shot Blake has not been fired or arrested.In response to Blake’s shooting, players in the WNBA, NBA and MLB have boycotted this week’s games. On Wednesday, tennis champ Naomi Osaka announced she was showing her support for Blake by withdrawing from a crucial semifinal match at the Western & Southern Open in New York writing, "As a Black woman, I feel as though there are much more important matters at hand that need immediate attention... Watching the continued genocide of Black people at the hand of police is honestly making me sick to my stomach... and I'm extremely tired of having the same conversation over and over again. When will it ever be enough?"Watch The Daily Show with Trevor Noah Monday to Friday at 11ET on CTV.[video_embed id='2023249']RELATED: Hal Johnson on NBA boycott [/video_embed]

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