“Daily Show” correspondent Michael Kosta slammed President Donald Trump’s reneging on his promise to charge 20% tolls to ships traversing the Strait of Hormuz.
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“It’s crazy to pay $32 million for something that used to be free,” Kosta said, reacting to an ABC News clip estimating how much a shipping company would have to pay for transporting 2 million barrels of crude oil through the strait.
“This is just like when the grocery stores started making us pay $0.10 for bags, except it’s $31.9999 million more,” Kosta continued.
Kosta pointed out that Iran currently controls the strait and Trump is just “giving them ideas.”
But Kosta quickly put those concerns aside after revealing Trump walked back his threats on Tuesday.
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“God, I was worried there for a second, then I remembered everything Trump says is bullshit,” Kosta said. “So thanks, President Trump.”
Kosta then offered a summary of the events of the war, which would’ve sounded bonkers if it weren’t all so accurate.
“So, in summary, the bottom line is, we’re back at war with Iran to stop them from charging tolls that they weren’t charging before we went to war with them so that nobody can charge tolls, except we want to charge tolls,” Kosta said.
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“Can anything be more embarrassing than this?” he continued.
Watch Kosta’s full opening segment from Tuesday night’s show here:
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