Woke Daily Show host shares patronizing 'wisdom' after meeting young MAGA men

Daily Mail​

16-05-2025

Progressive The Daily Show host Jordan Klepper has shared his patronizing thoughts on young male Donald Trump supporters after meeting some for a new show.
He said he was left surprised by the lack of 'cruelty' from the college-aged sample-set, after meeting with many for an upcoming Comedy Central documentary.
Called 'MAGA: The Next Generation,' the production is set to air next week, and will be fueled by Kelpper's now trademark man-on-the-street interviews.
Often presented as hit pieces on The Daily Show, the run-ins offered Klepper this time around a fresh perspective on the sizable subculture, he told Variety.
'This MAGA movement is inherently empty,' he said, speaking to a reporter backstage after Wednesday's show. 'There's no ideology behind it. There's attention and fame.'
'I had such a cynical perspective of the youth walking into this thing... I expected to be confronted by a bunch of d*cks - 22-year-olds who want to rail on trans people in sports and kick out all the immigrants,' he continued.
'But the cruelty wasn't there.'
His old inclinations, at the same time, were presented as popular opinion. Klepper billed this rude awakening as some profound realization.
He blamed the more 'dicey' experiences brought by his interviews with random conservatives during Trump's first term for his biased connotations.
He recalled being charged at a school board filled with conservative parents, despite handpicking the venues where his interviews took place.
He cryptically added how he and his Daily Show crew fled the Capitol on Jan. 6 after being 'tripped up' by a nameless 'camouflage-wearing hooligan,' causing Comedy Central to hire security this time around.
His subjects, meanwhile, were all 'pretty kind,' he admitted.
His security detail, however, continues to grow.
'Part of that is I'm not a strong man,' Klepper joked with the publication.
'I'm not good with push-ups, so if I paid attention to some of the "manosphere" fitness tips, I might be all right by myself.'
The term 'manosphere' was uttered multiple times during the interview, as Klepper continued to talk up his shift in perspective.
Often presented as hit pieces on The Daily Show, the run-ins this time around offered Klepper this time a fresh perspective on Trump's young male supporters, he said
'MAGA was suddenly framed by pundits in the "manosphere" as punk rock, as counterculture,' he said of the reputation created during Trump's first four years in office.
'The algorithms on these social media sites lean toward the aggressive and the hyperbolic, and it's shaping the conversation.'
Klepper, meanwhile, is currently in the midst of his second stint on the Daily Show, after serving as a correspondent from 2014 to 2017.
He left to start his own satirical program, The Opposition with Jordan Klepper, which was canceled in 2018.
His new special, meanwhile, comes as CBS and its parent company Paramount continue to face scrutiny from the federal government.
Both are locked in a bitter $20billion-dollar lawsuit with the president, after the latter accused CBS News and its crown jewel 60 Minutes of election interference. The network has vehemently denied those allegations.
The Daily Show airs four times a week Monday through Thursday. Kemper is one of several correspondents who share hosting duties on Tuesday through Thursday to help longtime leader Jon Stewart.