--- 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  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 No, we don't know that. Not only does Trump want- The national front knockoff- Monday was a new low. [ MUSIC ] Yesterday in the wake of the shooting in Orlando, Donald Trump did a speech on terrorism. The LGBT community is just What happened to them is just so sad. I just wanted to congratulate the LGBT community and all these new friends they suddenly have. I refuse to be politically correct. >. And just To be safe, he refuses to be correct. [ LAUGH ] Westerners have to work with us, they have to work with us. They know what's going on. Yes, all Muslims know what other Muslims are thinking. No wait, no wait. You're thinking of bees. That's what you're thinking of. [ LAUGH ] They're magical that way. Trump learned that from the documentary Aladdin. Hillary Clinton can never claim to be a friend of the gay community As long as she continues to support immigration policies that bring Islamic extremists to our country. And all you gay Muslims, just punch yourselves in the face, I guess. Let's cut the crap. This guy's [ BLEEP ] crazy dangerous. This whole speech, with its nativism, it's fear mongering To be clear this is bigotry plain and simple. They cannot believe that President Obama is acting the way he acts and can't even mention the words radical Islamic terrorism. There's something going on, it's inconceivable. Inconceivable. Especially to Brian Kilmeade. [ LAUGH ] The Republican nominee is saying the President of the United States is a secret agent for ISIS. Trump didn't explicitly say it, he implied it with all the subtlety of an eighth grader's cologne. So I'll let that, we'll let people. figure it out. And he expects us to figure out the crazy [ SOUND ] he says. 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