Late-Night Jokes Roast Army’s Plan to Hire 42-Year-Old Recruits
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On The Daily Show’s Late Night Roundup, Josh Johnson mocks the Army’s decision to raise its enlistment age to 42 from 35, quipping that “42 is the new 35” while lampooning the timing of U.S. war aims and Trump’s messaging, as part of a broader segment of political and pop-culture punchlines.
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