President Barack Obama made his final appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night, with the interview taking up the entirety of the episode. Stewart didn’t even have an opportunity to start the night with more Donald Trump jokes.
This was Obama’s first time on the show since October 2012, during his re-election campaign and was his seventh overall time on the show. Since Obama is also leaving office soon, Stewart asked him if he’d come down with “senioritis.”
“I can’t believe that you’re leaving before me!” Obama told Stewart. “In fact, I’m issuing a new executive order that Jon Stewart cannot leave the show.”
Before you fall off your chair Trevor Noah, Obama added that it’s “being challenged in the courts.”
At more serious points of the interview, Obama did talk about the controversial deal with Iran, as well as trying to get more young people involved in government. In a segment that did not make it to air, he also discussed the reforms of the Veterans Affairs system.
"Number one, government works better now than it probably ever has given what we ask it to do," Obama said, notes NBC News. "People work hard in the VA. But if you have a government that was built on 1930 models and it's not updated for decades, there will be a gap in terms of what it is doing now relative to what other folks do. It is the biggest example of that — we are redesigning from soup to nuts."
Obama also sounded frustrated that the media often focuses on small things, but even he had a good laugh about Trump. “I’m sure the Republicans are enjoying Mr. Trump's dominance of their primary,” he said.
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