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President Obama Aims to Inspire a New Generation in "A Promised Land"

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

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The Paradox of America's Role in the World

I sometimes wondered if you ever grappled with the difficulty of the paradox that America was creating in what it was trying to do in the world. And so if it's in the world, like I'll tell you as an international person, we would oftentimes go like, man, yes America's great and it's doing wonderful things,. But then you'd be like, but also man, sometimes they just break the rules and no one can say anything about it. "Yes," he said when asked whether he envied how Donald Trump came in and basically broke shit though. He added: "No, I didn't envy it because I do care"

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