MEAL Team Six - How to Save Meals on Wheels: The Daily Show

Cutting regulations isn't the only way
that Trump's going to be cooking the planet.
Over the past few weeks, we had a chance
to look through Trump's first federal budget proposal,
where he cut huge amounts of funding
for climate change research,
along with everything else that is holy and good.
The White House is unveiling
its federal spending priorities today
in what it is touting as the America First Budget,
slashing roughly 30% for the budgets
of the State Department and the EPA.
REPORTER: Cut billions of dollars for teacher training,
afterschool and summer programs...
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
and your public radio stations, gone.
Uh, National Endowment for the Arts, gone.
Giving a (bleep) for your fellow man, gone.
America's standing in the world, gone.
Reasons to go on living, gone.
President Trump wants major cuts
to almost every single department.
Almost.
President Trump calling to boost military spending
by $54 billion.
You see what we're doing with our military--
bigger, better, stronger than ever before.
That's right. Trump wants more military spending.
Even though America already spends more on defense
than China, Saudi Arabia,
Russia, Great Britain,
France, India, Japan,
the Denver Broncos,
and Bill Cosby combined.
In Trump's mind, if it's not military, it doesn't matter.
Even if it's a program like Meals on Wheels, for instance,
which provides food and companionship
to lonely old people.
But that's not how Trump or his budget director see it.
Can't spend money on programs just because they sound good.
And, great, Meals on Wheels sounds great.
Again, that's a state decision
to fund that particular portion to it.
To take the federal money and give it to the states, and say,
"Look, we want to give you money for programs that don't work."
I can't defend that anymore.
-Wow. Food doesn't work? -(laughter)
You can't defend that anymore? So let me get this straight.
The Trump administration will defend Putin,
white supremacists and sexual assault,
but delivering food to old people?
-Oh, that (bleep) is immoral! Ho, ho, ho! -(laughter)
I got to look at my family at night, buddy.
-Hey, hey, hey! -(laughter)
But all of this gave us an idea.
If Trump only wants to spend money on the military,
then maybe we just have to make everything military.
I've been with Meals on Wheels since 1990.
I get their meals three times a week,
and I enjoy them very much.
I'm 98 years old, and I do receive Meals on Wheels,
which I really depend on.
Without it, I would probably wind up living on canned food.
So I really do appreciate it.
When we first heard
that President Trump was sending money to the military
and cutting money from programs like Meals on Wheels,
the solution was obvious-- become militarized.
We're now Meal Team Six.
If we look and act like the military when delivering food,
we can trick the president and protect Meals on Wheels.
We feed the elderly, the disabled,
half a million veterans,
over 2.4 million Americans.
Listen up, Meal Team Six.
The survival of this unit is predicated upon us
delivering sustenance to those who need it.
I'm talking about milk, I'm talking about bread!
I'm talking about protein!
I'm talking about the whole damn food pyramid!
Now who are you?
ALL: Meal Team Six, sir!
Who are you?
ALL: Meal Team Six, sir!
Delicious! Mount up.
It's our duty to get
this food in these people's homes and their bellies.
And it's not easy.
They got locked doors, they got cats.
Some of 'em need their food before Jeopardy starts.
(suspenseful music plays)
A freakin' sandwich.
Fire in the hole.
Why can't they just ring the doorbell?
Uh, I'm always home.
And I have a cooler outside.
If you put the food in the cooler,
either one is good.
Does it get intense? Hell, yeah, it gets intense!
I'm not gonna make it!
-I got you, brother! -(groans softly)
Let's go!
But if they starve,
we starve.
(slow-motion yelling)
We lay low, we do our job, and we get people fed!
♪ ♪
(classical music playing)
(thudding)
Not every mission's gonna be perfect.
You have your good days and your bad.
(crying): I forgot the cream cheese!
I forgot the cream cheese!
(sobbing)
(applause and cheering)
But you wake up the next day,
you strap up your boots and keep tricking
the president into thinking you're part of the military.
Irene!
-Hello. -Put the quesadillas on 350
for 28 minutes. It's the perfect temperature.
No, but I have a microwave right there on the counter.
Outstanding.
IRENE: It's certainly 100%
better than no food at all.
I would prefer this type of delivery than...
What kind of food do you want for dinner?!
Do you want spaghetti, or do you want meatballs?!
Spaghetti!
Do you have any gluten allergies?
-No, I don't. -Good, good!
Is this the perfect way to get food to people?
Probably not, but at least it's feeding folks like Irene
and Peter, and they're veterans for God's sake.
They fought for and alongside America.
It's our duty to feed them.
And if you even mess with them
or any other Meals on Wheels recipients,
you're gonna see what MEAL Team Six can do!
Do not mess with us!
We are MEAL Team Six!
Oorah-la!
-♪ ♪ -(laughter)

MEAL Team Six - How to Save Meals on Wheels: The Daily Show

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