--- 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: 2026-04-13T07:36:35.411Z 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=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 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=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Trevor Noah Feels Like Harry Potter in the Fight Against Donald Trump's Voldemort  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 15, 2016 3:25 PM UTC  Trevor Noah on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Trevor Noah on The Late Show with Stephen ColbertCBS  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. ```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":"2026-04-13T07:36:35.411Z","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":"/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"}}]}] ```