Daily Show Brutally Roasts Trump’s ABC News Interview: ‘Don’t Believe Your Eyes, Believe The Photoshop!’

Daily Show host Desi Lydic roasted President Donald Trump’s recent sitdown with ABC’s Terry Moran in a brutal segment on Wednesday night’s show.

“Trump himself celebrated the big 100 by inviting ABC News reporter Terry Moran to the White House for an interview. And Trump kicked things off by asking the same thing every kid does when a guest comes to the house. Wanna see my room?” Lydic began before playing a clip of Trump saying:

Hello, everybody. How are you? This is the Oval Office. This is an amazing space. I’ve added a lot to the space in terms of beautification, in terms of modernization.

“Modernization? This looks like my great-grandmother decorated the mantelpiece with her great-grandmother’s ashes,” Lydic joked, after the camera took a quick pan around the Oval Office.

“And I know that beautification is in the eye of the beholdification, but we can all agree that the foam core Gulf of America map is pulling focus, right? Is the Gulf of America having a bridal shower in the banquet room of the Hilton Garden Inn? Because if it’s not, get it out of here. But okay, you know what? Show me a few more things in your room, and then I gotta go join the grownups,” she joked before playing more sound from Trump and Moran:

Trump: See Ronald Reagan here. You have Lincoln, you have Washington, but you look over here, that’s Monroe, the Monroe Doctrine.

Moran: Why is he up there?

Trump: I think the Monroe Doctrine was pretty important. You know, that was his claim to fame

“Trump is always in the, I forgot to do the reading mode. Man, that Monroe Doctrine is so important. My favorite part? Probably the doctrine. And doctrine, as we all know, is a female doctor. But you know what? We can’t expect Trump to know anything about a president whose picture he put up. It’s not fair. So let’s give him something easier. Donald, tell us what the Declaration of Independence is. And remember, this is the document in which we declared independence,” Lydic added.

“Of course, you have the Declaration of Independence,” Trump said as Moran asked, “What does it mean to you?”

“Well, it means exactly what it says. It’s a declaration. It’s the declaration of unity and love and respect. And it means a lot, and it’s something very special to our country,” Trump replied.

“Look at Terry Moran’s face. He looks like a teacher about to call the school psychologist. This is a great drawing. Stay right here,” Lydic joked, adding:

But of course, he’d make that face. Trump said that the Declaration of Independence meant unity. Unity is the opposite of independence. How did Trump find the one time that unity and love is the wrong answer? What makes this even more sad is that the Declaration of Independence is basically the colonies filing for divorce. It’s the one thing Trump should absolutely recognize. And all of that was supposed to be the softball part of the interview. It wasn’t until Moran pulled up his serious chair that the questions got hard.

Lydic then took aim at the more substantive part of the interview, focusing on the tense exchange between Moran and Trump, in which Trump claimed that Kilmar Abrego Garcia actually had “MS-13” on his knuckles.

“But the wildest part of the interview, by far, was when it turned to Trump’s deportation of Kilmar Garcia, who Trump says doesn’t need due process because anyone can tell that Garcia is in the gang MS-13 just by looking at his tattoos,” Lydic said before playing more from Trump:

And you’ll pick out one man, but even the man that you picked out, he said he wasn’t a member of a gang, and then they looked, and on his knuckles, he had MS-13. There’s a dispute over that. Well, wait a minute. Wait a minute! He had MS-13!

“He had some tattoos that are interpreted that way, but let’s move on,” Moran replied to Trump in the clip.

“Okay, let me just explain what’s going on here. Garcia has tattoos on his hand and someone labeled a photo of them trying to prove that they’re actually a code. The problem is, Trump thinks that the labels are part of the tattoo and he is very, very insistent on it,” Lydic added before playing the rest of their exchange.

“Now I understand why he’s so proud of that Gulf of America poster. He thinks Gulf of America is actually written on top of the water,” Lydic joked, adding:

Makes sense. And what is so crazy is that Terry Moran kept trying to change topics, but Trump wouldn’t let him. I have never seen an interview where a reporter catches a politician in a gotcha and the politician is the one who says, stop trying to move on, I am not done embarrassing myself. But I will hand it to Terry Moran. He held his ground to the point where it actually wore Trump out. And that’s when we saw a moment of vulnerability from Trump.

Lydic concluded, mocking Trump’s insistence on the false claim, “Why don’t you just say I’m right? Up is down, left is right, Santa’s real. And that is Trump in a nutshell. I can’t prove the insane things I believe, so just go along with them. Don’t believe your eyes. Believe the Photoshop. But I, I for one, will not believe the Photoshop, OK? I will go into the rest of the term with my eyes wide open, staring and watching. Oh, God, no, no! Oh, my eyes, my beautificated eyes!”

Watch the clip above.