


“Daily Show” correspondent Jordan Klepper clowned Donald Trump on Thursday after the president’s “weave” for the ages during his four-day trip to the Middle East this week.
Trump — at a roundtable event in Doha, Qatar that featured Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg and GE Aerospace Larry Culp — rambled on (and on) for just over 20 minutes, tackling a range of topics including Pete Buttigieg biking to work and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s tree climbing skills.
“Look at those faces! This man right here is a Boeing executive,” said Klepper, pointing to a screenshot showing Ortberg’s reaction to the wandering remarks.
“His planes fall out of the sky and he’s sitting here like, ‘Now this is a fucking disaster!’”
Moments earlier, Klepper said the event with some of America’s top defense contractors was a chance for Trump to be “focused” on selling American goods.
But — as clips from the start of the rambling show — Trump did much of the opposite, initially moving from the U.S. making a “new” drone system to claims of drones falling from the sky and killing people amid Russia’s war in Ukraine.
“You hide behind a tree and the drone comes down and it circles you with fire. You don’t have a chance. The tree comes down also, by the way. It’s so intense —,” said Trump, who has made a habit of rambling over the years.
“I mean, you see these trees being knocked down like — like they’re being sawed down by a top of the line timberman like, you know who? Sean Duffy.”
Klepper later gave a brutal summary of the weave with the help of a whiteboard.
“So we went from drones to lumberjacks to Sean Duffy to Pete Buttigieg back to Sean Duffy as a sexy lumberjack and I won’t play the rest for you because he went on for 13 more minutes,” Klepper stressed.
“With mentions, and this is all true, of the stock market — he got into there for a little bit — Lee Greenwood, obviously, and how the 2020 election was rigged. And in case you’re wondering when he weaved his way back to the drones? He never fucking did.”
Watch more of Klepper’s Thursday monologue on “The Daily Show.”