Sep 28, 2026 · 48 min · 10 segments
This week's host Jordan Klepper sits down with Daily Show writer Randall Otis to recap the latest news and preview the week to come. They weigh in on President Xi giving America the glorious gift of…
Jordan KlepperGuest
Randall OtisHost
If, if, in, in some ways it feels like she sees us more than we see ourselves, where it's like all you have to do, deliver the cuddly pandas, the, the media will go ex- go ape shit, for lack of a better term, over the pandas.
And, uh, and then we can focus on more important things like AI on our own timetable because these little ones are just happy enough because they got bears.
Part of me does feel like it is a v- purposeful, the pageantry of it, because we know we don't hold the cards when it comes to trading.
So it's like we need as much spectacle as possible to cover up the fact that we really can't tell them anything right now.
I do feel that ch- Xi trolls us without us being, like the American people, the news, or Trump, understanding that we're being trolled.
Like I was saying, when Trump went to China l- I don't know if it's earlier this year or last year, and it was at the height of the Epstein files being in the news, Trump was greeted by hundreds of children, and I'm like, "He's messing with you." And then he comes here, where the number one thing that we were supposed to talk about was trade, in which we get no concessions, no rare earth materials, none of that, but he's like, "Here are some fucking pandas." [laughs] I'm like, he is trolling us.
We're like, "Oh, the pandas are great." I'm like, "No, it is an insult." [laughs]
I think, I, we, we haven't seen the polling yet on the truckers across America who are having problems paying for diesel.
If, if, in, in some ways it feels like she sees us more than we see ourselves, where it's like all you have to do, deliver the cuddly pandas, the, the media will go ex- go ape shit, for lack of a better term, over the pandas.
And, uh, and then we can focus on more important things like AI on our own timetable because these little ones are just happy enough because they got bears.
Part of me does feel like it is a v- purposeful, the pageantry of it, because we know we don't hold the cards when it comes to trading.
So it's like we need as much spectacle as possible to cover up the fact that we really can't tell them anything right now.
I do feel that ch- Xi trolls us without us being, like the American people, the news, or Trump, understanding that we're being trolled.
Like I was saying, when Trump went to China l- I don't know if it's earlier this year or last year, and it was at the height of the Epstein files being in the news, Trump was greeted by hundreds of children, and I'm like, "He's messing with you." And then he comes here, where the number one thing that we were supposed to talk about was trade, in which we get no concessions, no rare earth materials, none of that, but he's like, "Here are some fucking pandas." [laughs] I'm like, he is trolling us.
We're like, "Oh, the pandas are great." I'm like, "No, it is an insult." [laughs]
I think, I, we, we haven't seen the polling yet on the truckers across America who are having problems paying for diesel.
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