Usually when Comedy Central’s Jordan Klepper does his man-on-the-street segments he travels to a conservative event and tries to make conservatives look bad, but on Tuesday he shook it up a bit. After the failed assassination attempt against President Trump at Saturday’s White House Correspondents Dinner, Klepper traveled to Times Square to interview foreign tourists to make conservatives look bad for not embracing gun control. The purpose of Klepper’s field trip was supposedly to mock various Republicans for citing Saturday's events as proof that Trump's ballroom is needed for security purposes, but initially Klepper really just wanted to talk about guns, “Just days after political gun violence in our nation's capital, I went to Times Square to ask people from foreign countries why this is happening here.”   The Daily Show's Jordan Klepper went to Time Square after the WHCD to interview foreigners in an attempt to convince Americans to ditch the guns. A typical exchange would be "What are things Americans can do to make America safer?" and someone answering "Lose the guns." pic.twitter.com/GSpfIOU0DR — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) April 29, 2026   The would-be assassin also had knives, but the anti-gun foreigner clips started with one man declaring, “In London, there has never really been a big thing, you know?” A woman added, “It's crazy because that kind of stuff usually wouldn't happen in, like, Europe.” Unfortunately, gun-based political violence is not unique to America. In 2024, someone tried to shoot the Slovakian prime minister. Outside of Europe, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was killed by a gunman at a campaign event in 2022, the same year that someone tried to shoot the former president of Argentina, and just last year, a Colombian presidential candidate was shot and eventually died from his wounds two months later. As it was, a second man claimed, “I think most of Canada is pretty safe. You were able to safely speak your mind without having to worry about being shot down.” Klepper was then shown with the aforementioned woman, “With that outside perspective, like, what are things Americans can do to make America safer?” The woman simply replied, “Lose the guns. That would help.” Klepper then asked a third man, “If we don't do that, is there anything else?” Initially, he replied, “Try to be decent, respect people in general, of course.” However, that wasn’t good enough for Klepper, “Okay, let’s say if that’s not our sweet spot, what else you got?” The man then gave Klepper what he wanted, “Reduce the number of guns.” Getting to the ballroom, Klepper wondered, “Have you considered more ballrooms?” and the man answered, “Without guns, yeah.” Klepper’s segment was not the first time The Daily Show has used foreigners to denounce Americans and their guns. Back in 2023, then-correspondent Roy Wood Jr. traveled to Britain to get the people there to do the same thing and claim that people support the Second Amendment to compensate for their small male parts. Here is a transcript for the April 28 show: Comedy Central The Daily Show 4/28/2026 11:10 PM ET JORDAN KLEPPER: Just days after political gun violence in our nation's capital, I went to Times Square to ask people from foreign countries why this is happening here. MAN: In London, there has never really been a big thing, you know? KLEPPER: The whole gun thing is not a big thing? WOMAN: It's crazy because that kind of stuff usually wouldn't happen in, like, Europe. MAN 2: I think most of Canada is pretty safe. KLEPPER: Yeah. MAN 2: You were able to safely speak your mind without having to worry about being shot down. KLEPPER: And doing that with words not shot down— With that outside perspective, like— WOMAN: Yeah. KLEPPER: What are things Americans can do to make America safer? WOMAN: Lose the guns. KLEPPER: Okay. WOMAN: That would help. KLEPPER: Okay. Noted. WOMAN:  Yeah. KLEPPER: If we don't do that, is there anything else? MAN 3: Try to be decent, respect people in general, of course. KLEPPER: Okay, let’s say if that’s not our sweet spot, what else you got? MAN 3: Reduce the number of guns. KLEPPER: Reduce the number of— MAN 3: Guns. Number of guns. Yeah. KLEPPER: Have you considered more ballrooms? MAN 3: Without guns, yeah. KLEPPER: Okay, you are really hung up on this gun thing.

Radical leftist Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is hailed by her allies as a refugee from Somalia. So does she know her American history? When she made a comical gaffe, reading from her notes about “World War II” and calling it “World War Eleven,” a Newsweek writer felt the urgent need to “fact check” it. It’s on video. It’s factual. But as usual, the complaint it “has been shared online without context.” The “context” they don’t like is the comedy that followed. Twitchy captured some of the memes. Others suggested jokes about sequels, like Back to the Future Eleven, or our island state Hawa-eleven, and of course, her name looks like Eleven-han Omar. Newsweek’s Alice Gibbs began: A short video clip circulating widely on social media appears to show Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar referring to World War II as “World War Eleven,” after a brief verbal slip that has been shared online without context. She complained this clip from January 22 was shared by some deplorable accounts:  Ilhan Omar referred to World War II as "World War Eleven." I can’t believe this dummy is in Congress DEPORT this Somali already pic.twitter.com/UGtiNDiFDW — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 27, 2026 One widely circulated post from the X account Libs of TikTok, which is operated by conservative activist Chaya Raichik, has garnered more than 700,000 views on X. Other users also shared the clip with captions mocking Omar or suggesting she misunderstood Roman numerals, framing the moment as evidence of a lack of basic historical knowledge....  In their post, Libs of TikTok wrote: “Ilhan Omar referred to World War II as ‘World War Eleven.’ I can’t believe this dummy is in Congress DEPORT this Somali already.”  There's your "context" they don't like -- sending Omar back to where she came from. Gibbs said there's no evidence that she's a dummy:  There is no indication Omar was confused about the historical event itself. The comment appears to be a verbal slip, not a substantive error, and was corrected in real time during the same sentence.  Newsweek clearly worries about Omar's claims to American greatness: "The viral spread of the clip comes amid heightened online attention on Omar for unrelated reasons, including renewed political claims about whether she could be deported and fresh scrutiny of her household finances." Back in 1992, when Vice President Dan Quayle wrongly suggested to a grade-schooler that potato was spelled "potatoe," no "fact checkers" looked for context. 

In the opening segment of Tuesday’s CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish and her panel defended Jimmy Kimmel’s “expectant widow” comments and also discussed the aftermath of the third Trump assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. The panel blamed Trump as the reason for the political violence, which Cornish called the debate over violence and rhetoric “nonsensical” after she played a clip of Charlamagne tha God.  One panelist, The Wall Street Journal’s Sabrina Rodriguez, even echoed the words of Jimmy Kimmel from Monday night, where the late-night host told Melania Trump to tell her husband to tone down his rhetoric amid the violence against him. To start the discussion, former George W. Bush administration official Ashley Davis actually called Kimmel, simply, unfunny, but stopped short of a relation to the comments as a call for assassination: “Actually, I just - I did whisper, I don't think he's funny, but I don't - that's what it was more than anything. But no, I listen, obviously, I do not think he said that to call action to an assassination. I think that's a very big stretch.”   Tuesday's CNN This Morning blamed Trump's rhetoric for the violence against himself, as host Audie Conrish called the constant post-attack rhetoric debates "nonsensical." She also played a clip from Charlamagne tha God saying he was sick of calls to tone down the rhetoric. pic.twitter.com/gfOzlfOLvY — Nick (@nspin310) April 28, 2026   Davis pointed out how the discussion after the WHCD had devolved into harsh rhetoric once again, after she “thought it was going to be a little bit better, that we were going to have a little bit more,” but “it's already now even going - it's almost even worse.” Democratic Strategist Chuck Rocha blamed social media algorithms for a rise in violence, as he called social media rhetoric a “reward system”: (...) in the algorithms, and even in democratic and Republican fundraising, you're literally rewarded for saying hateful stuff on the internet. Later, Cornish began to play a stretch of soundbites. She led with a video of Republican lawmakers' comments that accused Democrats of stoking political violence due to their rhetoric that compared Trump to fascists. The clips included Sen. Eric Schmidt’s (R-MO) mention of Dems “referring to ICE agents as the Gestapo. Trump's secret police,” as he called it a “sickness.” Another clip played of Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), where he said Democrats “incited violence” as they were “calling for war.”  After she framed the Republican views, she played a clip from Charlamagne tha God where Charlamagne said, “Whenever there is some type of political violence that happens that, you know, one of these events, people always say, so are we going to tone down the violent rhetoric towards Trump? Stop it. Like, I'm sick of that narrative.”  The radio host then said the question about rhetoric needed to be directed to Trump as he said, “‘Hey, Trump, it’s clear that you’re the drama.” Pure victim blaming. After Charlamagne played, Rodriguez echoed the comments of Kimmel’s Monday late-night program: Well, I will say, I mean, Jimmy Kimmel and speaking last night, one of the quotes that he said was he said to Melania Trump, to the first lady, he said, 'Why don't you talk to your husband about that?’ Rodriguez’s quotation of Kimmel may not be the best idea to tone down the rhetoric, given his recent comments. Cornish ended as she called the debate over violence “nonsensical”: And also the way lawmakers kind of collapse into a nonsensical debate about rhetoric after every violent event. Like, I think the public feels like we're over it. The debate over political violence was not nonsensical when the president of the United States has faced at least three assassination attempts. As Republicans were called “fascists,” it was no surprise that there is a rise in violence against conservative figures. The transcript is below. Click "expand": CNN This Morning April 28, 2026 6:04:00 AM (...) AUDIE CORNISH: First, I want to come to you, Ashley, because even as we talked about the fact that we were going to talk about this on the show, you said Kimmel was in the wrong. Can you talk about that?  Because originally his jokes were made way before the dinner and I think it will be pretty easy for people to call up clips and tape of all kinds of people on the political spectrum, making all kinds of inappropriate jokes that look different today. ASHLEY DAVIS: Actually, I just - I did whisper, I don't think he's funny, but I don't that's what it was more than anything. But no, I listen, obviously, I do not think he said that to call action to an assassination. I think that's a very big stretch.  But I do think that, first of all, he's going to get canceled anyway, eventually, because he doesn't have any viewers. I mean that's going to be his real problem more than he made inappropriate comments. But I think that them calling for him to step down, whether it's the first lady or the president, it's really not in their position to be able to do that. And so it's going to be a back-and-forth.  I'm actually very disappointed. I mean, I was at the dinner, you were at the dinner that day. I thought it was going to be a little bit better, that we were going to have a little bit more. We were going to start treating each other a little bit better since that. And it's already now even going, it's almost even worse. CHUCK ROCHA: There's something going on that we haven't talked about enough. For the last three days, we've talked about how both sides, whatever. The key to this is, there's rewards for that. And that's what we haven't talked about is in my world, in politics every day, the more crazy you can be talking about the way you feel about Donald Trump or the crazy Democrats can be talking about whatever the thing is, in the algorithms, and even in democratic and Republican fundraising, you're literally rewarded for saying hateful stuff on the internet. That wasn't around 15 years ago. CORNISH: Let me - to talk about that, I'm glad you brought it up. In a Gallup poll from October 2025, I'm going to put this up for folks, when the public was asked what factors are to blame for political violence, here's what you told Gallup at that time. Number one, extremist viewpoints on the internet. Inflammatory language by politicians was, you know, a decent second. And then other things that were not even touching on in this debate, mental health system and easy access to guns politically, these two conversations seem to be completely moribund for reasons that I don't know.  But we are talking a lot about the president's ballroom and his push security wise. Now he has a reason to go to the court and say, well, look, now I really need it. It's not just esthetic. SABRINA RODRIGUEZ: I mean, I think just one fact check for us on that is the fact that even if the WHCA, the White House Correspondents Association, said that they wanted to do the dinner in this White House Ballroom, they would not be able to do it. It's too small for the size of the event. Just [laughter] - CORNISH: To let people know, the plans are supposed to be a for a ballroom that will hold 2000.  RODRIGUEZ: A thousand.  CORNISH: Yeah, around 1000 people. And this dinner, which is a, frankly, cattle call, is more than 2000 people jammed into that room. RODRIGUEZ: Which you very much feel in the presence. But that's like a minor factor to all of this. But I think we're seeing so many tweets about this and saying, "This is why we need the ballroom.” This ballroom would not address this in particular.  But I think that there needs to be a larger conversation, like Chuck said. about the social media of it all. I think that unfortunately, there have been many shootings in America, and - CORNISH: That's not what's happening. Can I just play for you something? These are Republicans blaming Democrats. First of all, I just want to give you a mash of sort of the last couple of days of how this has been playing out. [Cuts to video clips] SEN. ERIC SCHMITT (R-MISSOURI): Why are we here? The Democrats have used rhetoric referring to ICE agents as the Gestapo. Trump's secret police. They can't help themselves. Like, this is a real sickness. SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON (R-LA): They've incited violence, in my view. I mean, you have some of the most prominent figures in the House and the Senate on the Democrat side, effectively, you know, calling for war. ACTING AG TODD BLANCHE: When you have reporters, when you have media just being overly critical and calling the president horrible names for no reason and without evidence, without proof. It shouldn't surprise us that this type of rhetoric takes place. [Cuts back to live] CORNISH: And then I want to play for you one more. This is from Charlamagne Tha God. Using this because this is a person who is speaking to the public back and forth, being in that dialog, especially on social media. And he responded this way. [Cuts to video] CHARLAMAGNE THA GOD: Whenever there is some type of political violence that happens that, you know, one of these events, people always say, so are we going to tone down the violent rhetoric towards Trump? Stop it. Like, I'm sick of that narrative. I need every single media personality to direct that energy and that question towards one person and one person only, and that person is President Donald J. Trump. At what point do people simply say, " Hey, Trump, it's clear that you're the drama.” [Cuts back to live] RODRIGUEZ: Well, I will say, I mean, Jimmy Kimmel and speaking last night, one of the quotes that he said was he said to Melania Trump, to the first lady, he said, “why don't you talk to your husband about that?” And I think it speaks. CORNISH: Yeah. I was playing that one because it's like it feels it also feels like a very common sentiment that after more than a decade, the sense is when Trump says something, it's supposed to be like, look, it's Trump being Trump. He just says things, you know, like that civilization, wipe it out. Whatever it is.  And also the way lawmakers kind of collapse into a nonsensical debate about rhetoric after every violent event. Like, I think the public feels like we're over it. DAVIS: I'm actually surprised that we were not having more conversation about gun control, because that's not even - I'm not even hearing that at all. CORNISH: Are you surprised? Really? ROCHA: That's so 2010. CORNISH: But yeah, I feel like that now. That's out the window. (...)

On Tuesday, President Trump joked about his old age during an event with King Charles, which greatly upset ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel because, according to him, that is the same he did on Thursday that led the Trumps to call for his firing on Monday. Of course, they were not the same because Trump didn’t suggest Melania is looking forward to his death. Kimmel began by introducing a clip of Trump, “Trump was very excited about hosting the king, and a lot of it is because Trump's mom was a great fan of the royal family.”   Jimmy Kimmel doesn't see the difference between his Melania "expectant widow" joke and Trump joking about his age, "Wait a minute. Did he just make a joke about his death? My god. He should be fired for that. Only Donald Trump would demand I be fired for making a joke about his… pic.twitter.com/1N8kFsJ8WL — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) April 29, 2026   In the video, Trump was shown declaring, “My wonderful mother, Mary MacLeod… She came to America at 19, met my incredible father. We loved him so much. We all loved him. We loved her. We loved him. Fred and—they were married for 63 years, and excuse me, if you don't mind. That's a record we won't be able to match, darling. I'm sorry. Just not going to work out that way.” Afterwards, Kimmel reacted, “Wait a minute. Did he just make a joke about his death? My god. He should be fired for that.” Raising his voice quite a bit, Kimmel continued, “Only Donald Trump would demand I be fired for making a joke about his old age, and then a day later, go out and make a joke about his own old age.” The two jokes were not the same. Trump’s joke could be summarized as “I’m old.” For Donald and Melania to reach 63 years of marriage, he would have to get to his 121st birthday in 2068. By contrast, Kimmel’s “expectant widow” remark could be summarized as “Melania hates her husband and is looking forward to his death.” Here is a transcript for the April 28 show: ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live! 4/28/2026 11:38 PM ET JIMMY KIMMEL: Trump was very excited about hosting the king, and a lot of it is because Trump's mom was a great fan of the royal family. DONALD TRUMP: My wonderful mother, Mary MacLeod. [jump cut] She came to America at 19, met my incredible father. We loved him so much. We all loved him. We loved her. We loved him. Fred and—they were married for 63 years, and excuse me, if you don't mind. That's a record we won't be able to match, darling. I'm sorry. Just not going to work out that way. KIMMEL: Wait a minute. Did he just make a joke about his death? My god. He should be fired for that. Only Donald Trump would demand I be fired for making a joke about his old age, and then a day later, go out and make a joke about his own old age.

CNN’s NewsNight with Abby Phillip, known around these parts as the Thunderdome, found a way to make itself even more grating and offputting to its viewers. The show is now closing by compelling panelists to engage in ritual self-humiliation via public reading of mean tweets solicited from the audience. But the show’s eponymous host is spared from this exercise. Watch the “viewer feedback” segment as aired on CNN’s NewsNight with Abby Phillip on Tuesday, April 29th, 2026: WATCH: In lieu of the traditional nightcap segment to close out CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip, panelists are now asked to ritually self-humiliate by reading awful posts from the audience. pic.twitter.com/2m6GnmIyyS — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) April 29, 2026 ABBY PHILLIP: We’re going to end tonight with some real time viewer feedback. Joe, you're up first. JOE BORELLI: Oh, there's not a screen yet? Put it on the screen. “Come on, man. Seashells? What's next? Driftwood from Uranus?” That wasn’t that bad. PHILLIP: Oh, god. BORELLI: That wasn't too bad. “Did you have 5 or 6 buckets of chicken today? Idiot.” PHILLIP: Oh, your fans are mean. CHUCK ROCHA: Mean- they’re mean. BORELLI: I love my fans. PHILLIP: All right, Chuck. Push it back. I can't see all the way over there. ROCHA: Push it back. I can't see all the way over there. (CROSSTALK) ROCHA: I don't see no tweets, but oh, here we go. “Sorry Chuck, anyone who wears a stupid cowboy hat in the studio will never be taken seriously. You appear to be a clown. Save it for the ranch.” Look, if you knew how much I like to break the rules, brother, you have no idea. Wearing a hat inside ain't nothing. PHILLIP: Kmele? KMELE FOSTER: Exceedingly un-American. Yes, what do we got here? “What's with the guy wearing a baseball hat and a cowboy hat on the show? ROCHA: Get their ass. Get their ass. FOSTER: Wow. I mean, honestly -- PHILLIP: Huge anti-hat crowd. ROCHA: Yeah. Yeah. FOSTER: Yes. And erroneous. PHILLIP: All right, Lydia. LYDIA MOYNIHAN: Uh- moment of truth. “Honestly, Abby Phillip, do you go out of your way to have incredibly ignorant morons on your show?” People, ding ding ding. PHILLIP: My final word is everyone just be a little nicer, and thank you very much for watching.  The show sometimes used to close out with the “Nightcap”, which for the most part consisted of Phillip asking her panelists what thing or social custom they’d either like to ban or bring back. The purpose of such a segment is purportedly to end the show on a lighter note after the panelists have been going at each other and, if you are a conservative, being constantly interrupted and/or gaslit by Phillip. The Nightcap isn’t the greatest, but it does accomplish its intended forced levity before Phillip tosses to Laura Coates. It is unclear what “Viewer Feedback” seeks to accomplish beyond denigrating the panel that has just given you the better part of an hour. This is particularly true if the host seeks to exempt herself from the “Viewer Feedback.” A prior segment was cut for time so it was just Joe Borelli reading viewer hate and Phillip reading a mild correction regarding an idiom. This time, everyone except for Phillip had to read some nasty tweet.  It’s not for lack of criticism, either. There is no shortage of “viewer feedback” after any given NewsNight. My X feed (as well as that of our own Curtis Houck) can attest to that. If Phillip isn’t going to read harshly critical tweets as the panel did, then the segment shouldn’t continue to run. If you can’t find something useful to do with that minute and a half, then do a long throw to Coates or make the Night Cap more interesting. Either alternative is better than having only the panel read dumb tweets under Abby Phillip’s approving gaze.