Jon Stewart thinks President Donald Trump‘s inability to refocus on questions and concerns surrounding the now month-long Iran War shows “his leering behavior is less ‘commander-in-chief at war’ and more ‘grandpa who’s lost his filter in public.’ Instead of assuaging a nervous nation, he’s just embarrassing the whole family at dinner.”
During his Monday night Daily Show episode, the political comic blasted the POTUS’ flippant attitude toward his largely unfavorable military decisions in the SWANA region.
Singling out an instance over the weekend that took place on the air with the Fox News talk show The Five, Trump veered completely off course when anchor Dana Perino questioned if the Iranian people were starving. While Perino noted that the situation was “upsetting,” the GOP leader instead reminisced about a lunch they once had over a decade ago.
“‘You know, it’s funny, Dana, your question about the suffering of the Iranian people has somehow made me horny, I don’t know why. I guess you just asked me: Do they have food, do they have water? And the whole time I’m thinking, like, what a piece of ass,’” Stewart mocked.
During a meeting with Saudi Arabian investors Friday, Trump opened the floor to questions, encouraging participants to ask him about anything, including sex.
Stewart, with a look of exaggerated caution, said, “We—we can ask about sex? OK,” pulling out an oversized box of documents labeled the “Epstein Files” to loud cheers. Pointing to a redacted line, he asked, “Whose name is that? Is that your fucking name, whose name is that? Who—oh you meant, like, general sex shit, like Loveline shit. Sowwy.”
Earlier in the program, he also slammed U.S. media coverage of the war’s ensuing fallout, including consumer goods shortages related to the crisis at the Strait of Hormuz.
When one broadcaster lamented that pistachios being in lean supply would cut down the amount of Dubai chocolate bars made, Stewart derided, “Oh, no? What will our influencers stand in line to pretend to eat? Dubai chocolate, by God, that’s been an American staple for … tens of days. I can’t believe how the news has to frame world events to try and make Americans care. The whole region is being flattened, innocent people are dying, their food and fuel are in total chaos, and our news is like, ‘if this goes on any longer, say goodbye to your stuffed-crust pizza.’”
To illustrate the point, Stewart invited on Daily Show correspondents Ronny Chieng, Michael Kosta and Jordan Klepper in a segment. While the former two made points about pistachios and helium shortages by ingesting the products, the latter was stuck with a handful of fertilizer. Egged on to also eat his product, he said, “in a way, this is a metaphor — because as Americans in this quagmire with no end in sight, we are all eating shit.”
Stewart concluded at the end of his monologue: “All we keep hearing from this administration is why the American people have to sacrifice for Trump’s vision of America’s greatness, that these temporary disruptions are just part of the process, and why can’t we be patriots? We have to be patient; we have to suck it up, whether its high gas prices or whimsical tariff inflation, or draconian ICE raids, or temporary Bill of Rights suspensions — it’s on us to understand, but Trump gets to be just the same ol’ ‘ain’t I a stinker?’ Utterly self-absorbed, ‘remember when I used to want to fuck hot girls?’ twat self. Can you imagine any other president, let alone a wartime president, being this fucking indulgent?”
