Trevor Noah: Trump's Surrogates Have Turned Into Shrugging Emojis

Is there a job worse than being a surrogate for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump'Trevor Noah doesnt think so.On Mondays episode of Comedy Centrals The Daily Show, Noah expressed heartfelt sympathy for the people whose job is to defend Trumps often-contradictory positions.I really feel sorry for ... all of Donald Trumps surrogates because that has to be the hardest job in the world ' even harder than being a DJ at a bar mitzvah.As Noah points out, a surrogates job is to defend anything said by the candidate, even if that candidate is Trump insisting that he seriously thinks Obama is the founder of ISIS on one day, and then claiming he was being sarcastic a few days later.That caused such confusion for his surrogates that when Trump spokesman Katrina Pierson was asked if her boss really meant his allegation, she was forced to say, Yes and no.Noah was not amused.Thats exactly what America needs in a president, Noah said. A man so all over the place [that] even the people who are hired as communication specialists are now basically the shrugging emoji.Editors note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims1.6 billion members of an entire religionfrom entering the U.S. -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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