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‘Remind Him That Obama Is Super-Rich’

Trevor Noah spent a lot of time on Monday night discussing Senate Republicans’ attempts to pass a tax bill. The legislation would seriously lower the corporate tax rate, but after a period of years it would raise the tax rates of lower-income Americans, according to a projection by the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation.

Mr. Noah hatched a plan to thwart the proposal. It involves President Trump’s archrival, former President Barack Obama, who recently signed a multimillion-dollar book deal.