“Daily Show” correspondent Jordan Klepper on Wednesday night pointed out that President-elect Donald Trump, who tried to ban TikTok during his first term in office, is now trying to stop a ban from taking effect.
“You’ll never guess why he had a change of heart,” Klepper said, then rolled footage of Trump bragging that TikTok helped him win the youth vote in November’s presidential election.
In one clip, the president-elect claimed he won young voters “by 34 points.” In another, he said he “won the young people by 36 points.”
Klepper was ready with a fact-check.
“If you’re wondering whether Trump won the youth vote by 34 points or 36 points, the answer is he lost the youth vote by 11 points,” Klepper said. “Slight discrepancy.”
Barring any last-minute legal action, TikTok is set to shut down in the United States on Sunday due to a law passed last year on an overwhelmingly bipartisan basis and signed by President Joe Biden in April.
See more ― including the unexpected new apps TikTok users are trying out ― in the Wednesday night “Daily Show” monologue: