When Was America Great?: The Daily Show

The Daily Show with Trevor Noah airs weeknights at 11/10c on Comedy Central.

[owenw.]

"the indian thing"... minor hiccup... sure
90% of an entire race wiped out... yea no biggie right

[tenki_]

"Nobody made it to the top without breaking a few pieces of China"

the look on Ronny's face is just brilliance

[clementine]

"We could sit here and paint negative faces of all times in America"
"Correct"
THAT GOT ME
0:47

[EtertainmentNet]

I wish I had the confidence to reduce issues like women's rights, native American murder, and slavery to "a few hiccups" on live television.

[DrJuicyNugs]

"Nobody made it to the top without breaking a few pieces of China"
To the ASIAN REPORTER 😭

[BasicSpace]

Imagine Germans talking like that about their countries history. "A few hiccups", "that holocaust thing", "Make German great again!". I wonder how Americans would think about that.

[WeloTwelve]

Imagine explaining slavery and Native American genocide as a “hiccup”

[mfgoon]

“We can sit here and paint negative faces of all times in America”
“Correct.”
😂😂😂

[valenciagoff]

Did he just call slavery a “hiccup” 🤦🏽‍♀️

[samsonrene]

“That wasn’t an insult by the way “ only in Trump America.

[andreparra]

The living embodiment of people who would say “I’m not racist, but....”

[adriansturdivant]

lol @ the guy at the end. Congratulations, u played yourself. 👍🏾

[Bobicici]

THAT LAST GUY HAS ME IN HYSTERICS! "That wasn't an insult btw" WHAT?! WHAT?! WHAT?!

[loriparsley]

They can’t very well say “make America great for white men again”, but they sure want to.

[Gunman]

No one made it to the top without breaking a few pieces of china?

What an oddly specific thing to say.

[johnzackarias]

"Look, we can sit here and paint negative faces of all times in America"
"Correct"

10/10

[DeCurtaRican]

None of these people can give an answer to the question.

When the Declaration of Independence was signed, blacks weren’t citizens, and weren’t even considered to be human — and they were treated accordingly.

When the Constitution was ratified, it was not intended to give rights to blacks. It only recognized whites as human beings.

In 1913, blacks were facing Jim Crow and the KKK, and women couldn’t vote. A few years later, the U.S. instituted the Filipino Exclusion Act.

During WWII, we had just come off of the Great Depression, Japanese people were interned, blacks still faced Jim Crow, and the Tuskegee Experiments were taking place.

Post WWII, white flight (a separatist movement) took place. Women still had no rights, and the prison industrial complex was still in full effect. Black war veterans had no rights, while white veterans were endowed with a bunch of social services programs to assimilate them into the middle-class — or better.

During the 1980’s, whites launched a campaign to steal back the urban land they had abandoned by floating drugs into the cities, which also resulted in the needless deaths and incarcerations of young black and brown men and women — along with the destruction of thousands of black and brown families.

Furthermore, if America has always been great, why are the words “make” and “again” used in the slogan?

If America was never great, the word “again” has no applicability.

No matter how you slice it, the words “make America great again” are a dogwhistle slogan meant to stir up racist whites.

These people want to go back to a very different time-period, but they won’t admit what that time-period is.

They’re a bunch of racist (and sexist in the case of the males), spineless cowards.

[briouellette]

“What year was America great?”

“When it was founded”

“Except for the slavery stuff”

“Uhm yeah, except for the slavery stuff”
me what!?!

[alicelovesminhyuk]

Stating that America has had a few “hiccups” along the way is like saying that WW2 was just a minor German whoopsie.

[wileyjohnson]

A few hiccups along the way? A few ? These people are dangerous.