'He’s every paradox you can possibly think of.' Trevor Noah finds his voice under Trump.
Trevor Noah speaks at South by Southwest in Austin last Saturday. By Timothy Bella Timothy Bella Deputy editor for Morning Mix Email Bio Follow March 15 at 5:16 AM AUSTIN — Trevor Noah didn’t understand what there was to be angry about. To a son of South Africa, the U.S. seemed to be in a good place when he took over “The Daily Show” in 2015, he said, with its thriving economy and black president.
“With Trump came a sharpened focus, because he very actively has gone after almost every issue, to the point where it’s almost like he’s the cliched villain,” Noah said. “I think he’s given us a target to aim at, which has been great for the show and for us as human beings. I read more. I engage more. I try and inform myself as much as possible, because when you’re living in a world where there is no reality, you have to try and create one for yourself.
“That’s one thing that people don’t realize makes him a really good politician. He is fantastic at identifying problems,” he said. “A lot of politicians avoid and act like the problems don’t exist. He knows what it is. But his solutions are bats--- crazy.”“I always have to separate how I personally feel about Trump because I love him as a cartoon character,” Noah said. “If you took the stakes out of it, I think he’s one of the best TV characters ever written.
“I think that for sure Trump is to Trevor as Bush was to Jon Stewart,” Wood said. “The thing that’s dynamically different, I think for Trevor’s tenure versus Jon’s rise is just how deeper the playing field is in terms of competition. There are a lot of shows that are out there that are thankfully shining a light on a lot of the bulls--- that’s going on in the world.
“They would literally tell us as kids, ‘Listen, I’m telling you today, there’s going to be one of these presidents and he’s not going to care about none of these folks,’"Sloan recalled. “And then, he showed up and I was like, ‘Damn, my momma and my grandma were right. He finally showed up.’ ”
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