Comedy Central’s weekly host of The Daily Show, Ronny Chieng, reacted on Wednesday to President Joe Biden calling Donald Trump supporters “garbage” by claiming that the White House’s excuse that he really meant “supporter’s” means that the election is now “Nazis versus grammar Nazis.”

After a couple of clips of Biden, including the “garbage” one, Chieng sought to make sense of the remarks, “Oh. I see. This guy's too [bleep] old and his brain is a floating pile of garbage, of course. Now the Dems don't want to admit that the president of the United States should not be using a computer unsupervised, so they went with this explanation.”

In a clip, CNN’s Arlette Saenz recalled, “The White House very quickly tried to argue that when he used the word 'supporters,' he wasn't talking about Trump supporters writ large, but that there was an apostrophe in there that is what is included in the official transcript. They tried to argue that he was specifically referencing the comments from that comedian at the Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday.”

Chieng responded, “That's right. In the last week of the campaign, Republicans are calling for a roundup of immigrants and Democrats are like, 'You have to put the apostrophe in the right place!' This election is really coming down to Nazis versus grammar Nazis and if Democrats are relying on Americans to understand how apostrophes work, this election is [bleep].”

Beyond the absurdity of tying immigration enforcement to Nazism, Chieng tried to use Biden’s remarks to claim Republicans are too dumb to even know what an apostrophe is:

Because have you ever seen a sign outside a bar? I mean, they basically use the apostrophe to mean ‘Here comes an S’ and look, Republicans aren't accepting any of these excuses because they don't know what an apostrophe is, and they think it's intentional that Biden called them garbage, and they could not be more excited because Republicans have been under fire for their garbage thing, and now they're like, ‘Yes! Biden's garbage thing cancels out our garbage thing, and so we're back to neutral!’

‘Our Garbage Thing’ refers to remarks made by a comedian, and whatever one thinks of the political wisdom of having a roast comic at your rally, comedians like Chieng who rely heavily on race-based roasts, should hesitate before throwing fellow roasters under the bus lest something get lost in translation.

Here is a transcript for the October 30 show:

Comedy Central The Daily Show

10/30/2024

11:03 PM ET

RONNY CHIENG: Oh. I see. This guy's too [bleep] old and his brain is a floating pile of garbage, of course. Now the Dems don't want to admit that the president of the United States should not be using a computer unsupervised, so they went with this explanation.

ARLETTE SAENZ: The White House very quickly tried to argue that when he used the word "supporters," he wasn't talking about Trump supporters writ large, but that there was an apostrophe in there that is what is included in the official transcript. They tried to argue that he was specifically referencing the comments from that comedian at the Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday.

CHIENG: That's right. In the last week of the campaign, Republicans are calling for a roundup of immigrants and Democrats are like, "You have to put the apostrophe in the right place!" This election is really coming down to Nazis versus grammar Nazis and if Democrats are relying on Americans to understand how apostrophes work, this election is [bleep]. 

Because have you ever seen a sign outside a bar? I mean, they basically use the apostrophe to mean "Here comes an S” and look, Republicans aren't accepting any of these excuses because they don't know what an apostrophe is, and they think it's intentional that Biden called them garbage, and they could not be more excited because Republicans have been under fire for their garbage thing, and now they're like, "Yes! Biden's garbage thing cancels out our garbage thing, and so we're back to neutral!"