If there’s one thing The Daily Show’s Desi Lydic hates, it is Republican politicians putting the integrity of women’s sports above “reproductive rights” on their agenda. After President Donald Trump issued an executive order to that effect, Lydic took the Comedy Central airwaves on Thursday to label the whole thing a “performance.”
A sarcastic Lydic teed up a clip of Wednesday’s edition of World News Tonight on ABC by declaring, “He tried to buyout the entire workforce of the CIA, his DOJ is going after anyone who’s investigated him, and now he has defeated America’s biggest threat.”
In the clip, senior political correspondent Rachel Scott used the liberal language to report, “At the White House today, President Trump signing an executive order banning transgender women and girls from competing in women’s sports.”
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