Trevor Noah Goes After FOX News For Claiming Obama Faked Crying About Gun Violence

A few days ago, US President Barack Obama announced executive actions designed to toughen background check requirements on people selling firearms. Surrounded by loved ones of victims of the countless mass shootings America has endured in the last several years, Obama passionately outlined the reasoning behind putting restrictions on gun ownership, invoking the victims of Aurora, San Bernardino, Kansas City, Chapel Hill, and many others.

In one especially poignant moment, Obama appeared to struggle with his emotions as he recalled the 20 young children murdered in a 2012 school shooting in Newtown.

Cue the fairly nauseting reaction from conservative pundits and conspiracy theorists, including FOX News, who debated whether Obama’s tears for the murdered children were genuine, or whether he’d somehow faked them. FOX host Andreas Tantaros claimed that Obama rubbed raw onion into his eyes to generate tears, while the rest of the FOX panel openly wondered why Obama didn’t “seem” upset after the Paris and San Bernardino attacks.

On FOX’s graveyard-shift program Red Eye, meanwhile, WABC Radio host Michael Gunzelman asserted that Obama had put pepper in his eyes and was “clearly faking his crying”.

The claim prompted a rare moment of self-awareness from another panellist, who warned that speculating over what foodstuff the President rubbed into his eyes to simulate being upset at the thought of murdered children “makes us look bad”.

All of which caught the attention — and drew the ire — of The Daily Show‘s Trevor Noah, who definitely seems to be warming to the opportunity his hosting gig presents to get furious at terrible people on a regular basis. In a bitingly funny and furious segment, Noah questioned how anyone could react to a display of emotion and vulnerability with partisan mockery and unhinged conspiracy theories.

Depressingly easily, as it turns out.