On this week’s episode of “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart attacked President Donald Trump for his lack of focus amid the United States’ war with Iran.
“You know, honestly, his leering behavior is less ‘Commander-in-Chief at war,’ and more ‘Grandpa who’s lost his filter in public,’” Stewart joked of Trump’s recent demeanor. “Instead of assuaging a nervous nation, he’s just embarrassing the whole family at dinner, going, ‘Hey, do you see our waitress is a busty one! Just like your grandma was.’”
Regardless of how Trump acts, the late-night pundit asserted that the president’s “loyal henchman” will do everything they can to “assure you that it’s really the opposite of everything you’re seeing.”
Stewart then cut to a clip of Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the Conservative Political Action Conference over the weekend. During his 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 “put the troop strength of every country on every border on that map.”
“Has anyone thought about filming that? Let us see that,” Stewart said. “Because that’s not what we see. What we see is a president four weeks into a war he has yet to fully explain, with objectives he has yet to fully define, only displaying molecular knowledge in a cabinet meeting of his own pen preferences.”
The show then cut to a clip of Trump at a cabinet meeting regaling his administration about the time he was handing out “$1,000 pens” to his supporters.
“They were $1,000 a piece, beautiful pen, ballpoint, $1,000, it was gold, silver, gorgeous,” Trump said in the clip. “But I’m handing out to kids that don’t even know what the hell— ‘What is this, mommy?’ There’s kids, they’re getting a pen for $1,000. They have no idea what it is.”
“That is a cabinet meeting during a fucking war,” Stewart exclaimed. “You know, 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 it’s high gas prices or whimsical tariff inflation or draconian I.C.E. raids or temporary bill of rights suspensions. It’s on us to understand, but Trump gets to be his same old, ‘Ain’t I a stinker,’ utterly self-absorbed, ‘Remember when I used to want to fuck hot girls’ self.”
Watch the entire monologue below.
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