He just wishes that the president and his followers wouldn't make it so easy."There's never a shortage of things to talk about, or characters in the orbit of Donald Trump to find humor within, but sometimes the absurdity lies more with him than it should," Klepper told AFP in an interview in Los Angeles."I wish it relied a little bit more on us bringing comedy to the table. He doesn't need to work as hard."Klepper is part of a revolving cast on "The Daily Show" who take a sideways glance at the day's events.He frequently goes to Trump rallies or other events in the Make America Great Again (MAGA) sphere, speaking to the faithful whose belief in the president seems impervious to facts."Donald Trump is a peacetime president and has never been wrong about anything, and yet we are in a war that we were promised not to be in," he said, referring to hostilities with Iran."The Epstein files were supposed to be released, they are not, and yet you still have people who are trumpeting this idea of Donald Trump: 'promises made, promises kept'."America's balkanized media landscape is a major problem for the nation, Klepper thinks."People live in very different realities all across this country, and their realities are reflected by the news sources that they get, the friend circles they have, the social media that they interpret," he says."My job is: Let's point out that hypocrisy, have fun with it, hopefully do it from a place of empathy, but also a place of true curiosity about how people can hold certain truths that defy logic or reality."- Late night -
Comedian Jordan Klepper wishes satire was harder in age of Trump
Skewering the oddities of president Donald Trump's administration and his devoted American supporters has made comedian Jordan Klepper a household name in the United States, as a host of late-night satire…







