The cast of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show reacted to the overwhelmingly bipartisan vote in the House on Wednesday that would force ByteDance to divest from TikTok by accusing those in favor of hypocrisy and jealousy in a heavily sarcastic satirical news report.
Temporary co-host Michael Kosta introduced correspondent Ronny Chieng and asked him, “What’s the feeling up on Capitol Hill?”
Chieng claimed that Congress is simply jealous:
I’ll tell you what the feeling should be. America should be feeling humiliated right now. China made an app so popular that the government has to ban it. That means Communist China beat Free Market America at capitalism! That’s like your whole thing, America! And you lost! This is as bad as that time that Asian dude won the hot dog eating contest six times in a row! China beat us so bad at…
