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Thursday, July 10, 2025

Trevor Noah highlights JW, Deyalsingh on The Daily Show

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Host of The Daily Show, Trevor Noah, left, and Health Minister Terrance Deyalsingh on The Daily Show last night.

Host of The Daily Show, Trevor Noah, left, and Health Minister Terrance Deyalsingh on The Daily Show last night.

KEVON FELMINE

kevon.felmine@guardian.co.tt

The on­go­ing furore of Unit­ed States rap­per Nic­ki Mi­naj’s claim that a COVID-19 vac­cine caused im­po­tence in a Trinida­di­an man took cen­tre stage on the Dai­ly Show with Trevor Noah last night, fea­tur­ing CNC3’s Ja­son Williams and Health Min­is­ter Terrence Deyals­ingh.

The pop­u­lar in­fo­tain­ment show, aired a clip of Williams as he host­ed The Morn­ing Brew, com­ment­ing on Nic­ki’s claims. Noah then in­ter­viewed Min­is­ter Deyals­ingh and end­ed with a glow­ing trib­ute to the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go and the cul­ture of the na­tion, and gave well wish­es to the en­tire coun­try for hav­ing to go through this in­ter­na­tion­al con­tro­ver­sy.

On Mon­day, Nic­ki, a na­tive of T&T, tweet­ed that her cousin’s friend in Trinidad took a COVID-19 vac­cine and be­came im­po­tent af­ter his tes­ti­cles swelled.

“His friend was weeks away from get­ting mar­ried. Now the girl called off the wed­ding. So just pray on it and make sure you’re com­fort­able with your de­ci­sion, not bul­lied,” she tweet­ed.

Williams, de­scrib­ing the al­leged im­po­tence as a “flat tyre” said there were things the al­leged vic­tim could do to treat his con­di­tion. How­ev­er, he said Nic­ki should not have shared it with the pub­lic.

“I mean come on, Nic­ki. You have 180 mil­lion fol­low­ers. Peo­ple lis­ten to you... I mean, it is ir­re­spon­si­ble on all fronts. One, ir­re­spon­si­ble based on the mis­in­for­ma­tion that is go­ing out there re­gard­ing this vac­cine. You know, there was no ver­i­fi­ca­tion of this sto­ry. And fur­ther­more, to ex­pose your cousin’s friend flat tyre in the pub­lic do­main like that,” Williams said.

Noah de­scribed Nic­ki’s con­tin­ued rants as the “on­go­ing saga of Nic­ki Mi­naj’s friend cousin swollen tes­ti­cles”.

Af­ter play­ing the clip of Williams, he told his au­di­ence that Williams was his “friend’s cousin” and ad­vised that he had called Williams to re­do a Cialis ad­ver­tise­ment. The drug is used to treat male sex­u­al func­tion prob­lems (im­po­tence or erec­tile dys­func­tion-ED).

Williams’ voice was then played over a video of the Cialis drug, talk­ing in his usu­al Trinida­di­an jar­gon, ad­vis­ing on its use for “flat tyres” and warn­ing users not to let Mi­naj know or else she would “put you on blast”.

Af­ter a short break, Noah re­turned with an in­ter­view with Min­is­ter Deyals­ingh, in which Deyals­ingh spoke of the vac­ci­na­tion dri­ve in T&T and all that the Gov­ern­ment and health of­fi­cials were do­ing to curb the spread of the virus.

Noah men­tioned his in­ten­tion to re­turn to Trinidad and To­ba­go for Car­ni­val and to eat dou­bles, say­ing that he had to fit in a cos­tume to play in “Machel’s band”.

At the end of the in­ter­view, he paid glow­ing trib­ute to the peo­ple and cul­ture of Trinidad and To­ba­go and thanked the na­tion for the way it was han­dling the con­tro­ver­sy.

Noah ac­knowl­edged that peo­ple make wild claims about the COVID-19 vac­cines all the time, but most peo­ple did not have mil­lions of fol­low­ers. He said the tweet has caused a gi­ant up­roar, so big that even Dr An­tho­ny Fau­ci had to give his in­put.

Fau­ci is the Di­rec­tor of the Na­tion­al In­sti­tute of Al­ler­gy and In­fec­tious Dis­eases and the Chief Med­ical Ad­vi­sor to the Pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca, Joe Biden. Speak­ing to CNN, Fau­ci said there was no ev­i­dence that the Pfiz­er-BioN­Tech, Mod­er­na or John­son & John­son vac­cines caus­es re­pro­duc­tive dam­age.

“There is no ev­i­dence that it hap­pens, nor is there any mech­a­nis­tic rea­son to imag­ine that it would hap­pen, so the an­swer to your ques­tion is no,” Fau­ci said.


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