--- title: Trevor Noah Mocks Trump's James Comey Firing in VIDEO description: Trevor Noah used the The Daily Show to talk about why Donald Trump's rationale for firing James Comey is "the most gangster excuse." canonical: https://time.com/4773936/trevor-noah-donald-trump-james-comey/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-10T15:50:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:43:30.167Z og:title: Trevor Noah on Trump's Dismissal of Comey: 'This Is Insane' og:description: The late night host called out the president og:url: https://time.com/4773936/trevor-noah-donald-trump-james-comey/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd1834d0680e9dbce/6988ccc5cf40a83516c479f0/trevor.jpg?branch=production&width=750&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 750 og:image:height: 422 og:image:alt: Trevor og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trevor Noah on Trump's Dismissal of Comey: 'This Is Insane' twitter:description: The late night host called out the president twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd1834d0680e9dbce/6988ccc5cf40a83516c479f0/trevor.jpg?branch=production&width=750&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Trevor Noah Says Trump's Decision to Fire James Comey Is 'Insane' on _Daily Show_ > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang May 10, 2017 3:50 PM UTC   by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang May 10, 2017 3:50 PM UTC President Trump’s decision to fire FBI Director James Comey was the talk of the nation on Tuesday and _The Daily Show_ was no exception. Host Trevor Noah held nothing back as he called Trump’s rationale for firing Comey both “insane” and “the most gangster excuse,” while also pointing out that Comey was leading the investigation about possible Russian ties to the 2016 presidential election. “You can’t just fire the FBI director,” Noah said. “If he’s gone, who’s going to investigate Russia’s ties to — oh…” Noah also took issue with Trump saying that Comey mishandled the investigation about Hillary Clinton’s private email server. “This is insane,” he said. “Do you understand the excuse Trump is giving? Trump is basically saying he’s doing this because of what Comey did to Hillary. That is the most gangster excuse I’ve ever heard.” Noah concluded with an imitation of Trump that poked fun at the president’s seeming concern for Clinton with the firing of Comey. “I am doing this to clear my good friend, Crooked Hillary, because James Comey clearly just wanted to lock her up, lock her up, lock her up.” Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4773936/trevor-noah-donald-trump-james-comey/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4773936/trevor-noah-donald-trump-james-comey/"},"headline":"Trevor Noah Says Trump's Decision to Fire James Comey Is 'Insane' on Daily Show","datePublished":"2017-05-10T15:50:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:43:30.167Z","description":"\"This is insane\"","url":"https://time.com/4773936/trevor-noah-donald-trump-james-comey/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Late Night","viral","Donald Trump","Late Night Television","James Comey","trevor noah"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd1834d0680e9dbce/6988ccc5cf40a83516c479f0/trevor.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd1834d0680e9dbce/6988ccc5cf40a83516c479f0/trevor.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Trevor","caption":"","creditText":"","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/4773936/trevor-noah-donald-trump-james-comey/","name":"Trevor Noah Says Trump's Decision to Fire James Comey Is 'Insane' on Daily Show"}}]}] ```