Daily Show host has five-word question for America after it elected first convicted felon president

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Daily Show host Desi Lydic had a blistering five-word question for America after voters chose to elect the nation’s first convicted felon president – instead of its first female president. “What the actual f**k, America?” Lydic said on Wednesday night, in lieu of Jon Stewart in the late-night show’s first episode since Donald Trump won the presidential election. open image in gallery Desi Lydic asked Americas a blistering question after Trump reclaimed White House With the president-elect yet again defying many top pollsters’ expectations, The Daily Show’s senior correspondent argued that a glass ceiling in politics means that even the most accomplished female politicians, currently, won’t be able to take the White House. As long as its a boy dog.” open image in gallery President-elect Donald Trump swept the swing states ahead of his prospective return to the White House Lydic also took a swipe at the media’s “blame game,” playing a montage of contradictory analysis from political pundits in the wake of Trump’s re-election.