--- title: Trevor Noah Is Harry Potter vs. Donald Trump's Voldemort description: Trevor Noah explained why the 2016 election season has made him feel like Harry Potter on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. canonical: https://time.com/4495013/trevor-noah-harry-potter-donald-trump-voldemort/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-15T15:25:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-07T06:47:00.576Z og:title: Trevor Noah Feels Like Harry Potter to Donald Trump's Voldemort og:description: "I think I may need to die to save America" og:url: https://time.com/4495013/trevor-noah-harry-potter-donald-trump-voldemort/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt06e241806ee97b3f/6988a62d0b72e31aa46eb02e/screen-shot-2016-09-15-at-10-13-41-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1281 og:image:height: 721 og:image:alt: screen-shot-2016-09-15-at-10-13-41-am og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trevor Noah Feels Like Harry Potter to Donald Trump's Voldemort twitter:description: "I think I may need to die to save America" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt06e241806ee97b3f/6988a62d0b72e31aa46eb02e/screen-shot-2016-09-15-at-10-13-41-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Trevor Noah Feels Like Harry Potter in the Fight Against Donald Trump's Voldemort > Sponsored content. 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In the wake of the Orlando shooting, four of late night television's hosts held nothing back in their criticism of Donald Trump's response._  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 15, 2016 3:25 PM UTC In the wake of the Orlando shooting, four of late night television's hosts held nothing back in their criticism of Donald Trump's response.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 15, 2016 3:25 PM UTC Before giving his take on [Hillary Clinton’s](http://time.com/4486502/hillary-clinton-basket-of-deplorables-transcript/) “[basket of deplorables](http://time.com/4488136/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-deplorables/?xid=homepage)” comment during Wednesday night’s episode of _The Late Show with Stephen Colbert_, [Trevor Noah](http://time.com/4308849/trevor-noah-donald-trump-time-100-gala/) explained why the 2016 election season has made him feel like Harry Potter. Noting that his debut as the host of _The Daily Show_ happened at around the same time Donald Trump became a serious contender for the Republican nomination, Noah compared himself to Harry facing off against Trump’s Voldemort. “I think in some way I may be connected to Trump…Sort of like Harry Potter and Voldemort,” he told Colbert. “I think I may need to die to save America, to save you all.” Watch the full clip below. ## Transcript [00:00] No, we don't know that. Not only does Trump want- [00:02] The national front knockoff- Monday was a new low. [00:07] [ MUSIC ] Yesterday in the wake of the shooting in [00:09] Orlando, Donald Trump did a speech on terrorism. [00:12] The LGBT community is just What happened to them [00:16] is just so sad. I just wanted to congratulate the LGBT [00:20] community and all these new friends they suddenly [00:22] have. I refuse to be politically correct. >. And [00:27] just To be safe, he refuses to be correct. [ LAUGH ] [00:30] Westerners have to work with us, they have to work [00:33] with us. They know what's going on. Yes, all Muslims [00:36] know what other Muslims are thinking. No wait, no [00:39] wait. You're thinking of bees. That's what you're [00:41] thinking of. [ LAUGH ] They're magical that way. Trump [00:44] learned that from the documentary Aladdin. Hillary [00:47] Clinton can never claim to be a friend of the gay [00:50] community As long as she continues to support [00:53] immigration policies that bring Islamic extremists to [00:57] our country. And all you gay Muslims, just punch [01:00] yourselves in the face, I guess. Let's cut the crap. This [01:02] guy's [ BLEEP ] crazy dangerous. This whole speech, [01:05] with its nativism, it's fear mongering To be clear this [01:09] is bigotry plain and simple. They cannot believe that [01:13] President Obama is acting the way he acts and can't [01:16] even mention the words radical Islamic terrorism. [01:20] There's something going on, it's inconceivable. [01:23] Inconceivable. Especially to Brian Kilmeade. [ LAUGH ] [01:28] The Republican nominee is saying the President of the [01:31] United States is a secret agent for ISIS. Trump didn't [01:35] explicitly say it, he implied it with all the subtlety of an [01:39] eighth grader's cologne. So I'll let that, we'll let people. [01:42] figure it out. And he expects us to figure out the crazy [01:46] [ SOUND ] he says. I hope Trump explains it soon, [01:49] because until he does, that kinda [01:53] looks like he's an [ SOUND ] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4495013/trevor-noah-harry-potter-donald-trump-voldemort/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4495013/trevor-noah-harry-potter-donald-trump-voldemort/"},"headline":"Trevor Noah Feels Like Harry Potter in the Fight Against Donald Trump's Voldemort","datePublished":"2016-09-15T15:25:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-10-07T06:47:00.576Z","description":"\"I think I may need to die to save America\"","url":"https://time.com/4495013/trevor-noah-harry-potter-donald-trump-voldemort/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","stephen colbert","TV","the late show","trevor noah","the late show with stephen colbert"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt06e241806ee97b3f/6988a62d0b72e31aa46eb02e/screen-shot-2016-09-15-at-10-13-41-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt06e241806ee97b3f/6988a62d0b72e31aa46eb02e/screen-shot-2016-09-15-at-10-13-41-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"screen-shot-2016-09-15-at-10-13-41-am","caption":"Trevor Noah on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert","creditText":"CBS","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4495013/trevor-noah-harry-potter-donald-trump-voldemort/","name":"Trevor Noah Feels Like Harry Potter in the Fight Against Donald Trump's Voldemort"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Late-Night TV Takes on Trump","description":"In the wake of the Orlando shooting, four of late night television's hosts held nothing back in their criticism of Donald Trump's response.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/n9RiOocv/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2016-09-14T21:13:41.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/n9RiOocv.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4495013/trevor-noah-harry-potter-donald-trump-voldemort/","duration":"PT1M58S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4495013/trevor-noah-harry-potter-donald-trump-voldemort/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```