Project 2025's Proposed Porn Ban Ridiculed by 'The Daily Show'

LOS ANGELES—Comedy Central's The Daily Show eviscerated the proposed ban on pornography touted by the Heritage Foundation and its Project 2025 initiative. Host Jordan Klepper and writers on the popular satirical current events program took it upon themselves to show viewers what a pornography ban would look like, featuring the face of Stephen Miller, a close ally to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and a far-right anti-immigration hawk. “If you want to be truly effective, you just need to show people what porn would look like under Project 2025,” chided Klepper during the show's broadcast Wednesday night. The show poked fun at the proposal to censor porn, outlined by Heritage Foundation's president Kevin Roberts in the foreword of Project 2025's central policy book Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, by "debuting" what they believe could be an adult movie under a second Trump White House, "featuring" Miller's face. Complete with classic stag-film music from golden era adult films, the clip replaces the faces of the man and woman in the clip with Miller's face. The clip features Miller's sayings like "She is hardcore" and "We are in a shocking situation." One of the only reasons why Miller was imposed on the male and female performers was to add further satire and ridicule to a recent appearance he made on Fox News. Appearing on Jesse Watters Primetime earlier this week, host Watters opened the segment by claiming that Fox News received texts from women and that the crew of Watters' show calls Miller a "sexual matador." Running the Watters clip during The Daily Show broadcast, Klepper commented: “Is that because he’s literally a walking red flag?" Klepper goes on to mock the Fox News characterization of Miller as being some sort of "ladykiller" among women in a “check the basement kind of way.”  Klepper cuts back to the clip of Watters and Miller. Miller tells the Fox News host that young men should show their confidence in women by doubling down on their support for former President Donald Trump, a convicted felon and accused rapist. “The best thing you can do is to wear your Trump support on your sleeve,” Miller told Watters. “Show that you are a real man, show that you are not a beta. Be a proud and loud Trump supporter and your dating life will be fantastic.” The show then cuts back to Klepper. Klepper jokes that Miller's words led to "thousands of Southern borders" shutting down, referring to women's sexual attractiveness toward these types of men.  "Don't be a beta cuck, and vote for Kamala Harris," Klepper added in his rant. "Come out to this sweet rally where a guy double jerks to the YMCA," Klepper joked, cutting to a scene of Trump dancing at a rally in Saginaw. Despite these jokes, Klepper finally transitions his segment to Project 2025 and how sexual freedom is a campaign issue during the waning days of the 2024 election. Klepper highlights the newly launched Hands Off My Porn campaign spearheaded by the group Artists United for Change, a committee of sex workers and adult performers posting ad buys on social media and other platforms in swing states challenging Project 2025's proposal to ban porn. AVN previously covered Hands Off My Porn, which is backed by stars like Siri Dahl, Holly Randall, Cherie DeVille and Casey Calvert, among others. "Yes! My favorite porn category: informational PSA," Klepper joked. He displayed a PSA video featuring Holly Randall. But Klepper then segued into what he thinks is the most effective way to show what porn would look like if Trump wins the 2024 election and Project 2025's anti-porn proposal is enforced. The archived porn clip is then edited to feature Miller's face and an end scene, saying, "This is the future of porn under Project 2025." AVN has reported on Project 2025 and the network's culture war policy proposals like banning pornography and imprisoning so-called "pornographers."