Trump’s biggest issue would be that Noah’s comments were clearly jokes.

“The First Amendment protects even allegedly false statements about an individual that would be seen as defamatory unless you can prove that they were made with reckless disregard for the truth,” Geoffrey Stone, distinguished professor of law at the University of Chicago, told SAN. “And in this case, they were clearly jokes, and they were intended as jokes. People understood them as jokes, not as factual statements. And therefore, I think it’s utterly implausible that there could be a libel judgment.”

Trump is also a public official which makes for a higher burden to prove in court for his lawyers.

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