On this week’s episode of “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart attacked President Donald Trump for his lack of focus amid the U.S.-Iran war.
“Honestly, his mean-spirited demeanor is more ‘grandpa with his filter off in public’ than ‘commander-in-chief of war,'” Stewart joked about Trump’s recent behavior. “Instead of reassuring a nervous public, they just embarrass the whole family at dinner and say, ‘Hey, you know my waitress has big breasts! Just like your grandma.'”
Regardless of how President Trump acts, the late night pundit claimed that the president’s “loyal minions” will do everything in their power to “ensure that everything you see is actually the opposite.”
Mr. Stewart then cut footage of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the Conservative Political Action Conference over the weekend. In an on-stage interview, he said Trump has “encyclopedic, molecular knowledge” and recalled a time when the president drew a “perfect map” of the Middle East on a placemat and “marked every country’s military strength on every border on that map.”
“Has anyone thought of filming it? Let’s take a look at it,” Stewart said. “Because that’s not what we’re seeing. What we’re seeing is a president four weeks into a war who still hasn’t fully explained, hasn’t fully defined his objectives yet, and is just showing off his molecular knowledge of his pen’s preferences in a cabinet meeting.”
The show then cut to footage of President Trump praising his administration at a Cabinet meeting handing out “$1,000 pens” to supporters.
“They were $1,000 each, beautiful pens, ballpoint pens, $1,000. They were gold, silver, gorgeous,” Trump said in the video. “But I’m handing out ‘What’s This, Mom?’ to kids who don’t even know what the hell it is.” Some kids are getting pens for $1,000. They have no idea what it is. ”
“That’s a cabinet meeting at war,” exclaimed Stewart. “You know, all we keep hearing from this administration is why the American people have to sacrifice for Trump’s vision of American greatness. These temporary disruptions are just part of the process, and why we should not be patriots.” We have to put up with it, and we have to put up with it, whether it’s rising gas prices or capricious tariff inflation or stricter ICE investigations or suspending the Bill of Rights. It’s up to us to figure that out, but Trump is going to be the same age as him. “Aren’t I a stinky person?” she says, completely self-absorbed, “remember when I wanted to have sex with a hot girl?”
Watch the full monologue below.
