On The Daily Show, Trevor Noah recapped Trump’s first day in India, where he received a hero’s welcome. “Trump is very popular in India,” Noah explained. “Some like him because of his anti-Muslim rhetoric, some like him because of his
business savvy, and all of them like him because his skin looks like tikka masala.”They pulled out all the stops, said Noah, referencing reports that workers built new roads, drained sewers and constructed a slum-masking wall in anticipation of Trump’s visit.
“You know Trump’s gonna love that,” Noah said of the wall. “He’s just like ‘see, they built a wall, and I haven’t seen a single Mexican. It works, folks.’”
The preparations may seem extreme, “but this is basically what guys do whenever a girl says she’s coming over”, Noah said.
“You make your bed, pick up your clothes, hide all your junk in the closet, then she calls and says she can’t make it and you’re like, ‘dammit, so I flushed the toilet for nothing?!’”
One thing that may not go over well? The vegetarian menu offered by the prime minister, Narendra Modi, which reportedly has Trump staffers worried. “I honestly don’t know what’s stranger:
the fact that Trump might eat vegetables, or that people are actually worried about how it will go,” Noah said, noting that some news outlets reported the story as: “yo if Donald Trump eats broccoli, he could die.”
Noah also addressed those critical of Trump’s butchering of some Hindi pronunciations. “To those Indians I say, please, don’t be mad – Trump may not be able to pronounce Hindi words, but he can’t pronounce English words either, so he’s an equal opportunity offender,” he said.
