Jon Stewart is an undecided voter, he joked, as in a part of a gaggle that’s “mainly, me and 6 individuals who had been kicked within the head by very highly effective horses,” he stated on Monday night time’s installment of The Day by day Present, which kicked off with an extended phase evaluating the 2 presidential candidates VP Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump.
“I’ve been leaning in the direction of Kamala Harris, due to her spectacular resume and her potential to modify from Indian to Black — like that!” he stated, making a speedy motion and snapping his fingers collectively.
As this system went on, the comic skewered Trump’s claims left and proper — from his lack of ability to articulate an financial coverage plan to the jarring juxtapositions between his picture versus his speech; in a single instance, Stewart performed a stream of clips wherein varied politicians and pundits claimed Trump was pro-worker, solely to then comply with it up with excerpts of Trump conveying his disdain for paying his staff extra time.
“I gotta say each time Trump talks about staff, it’s like watching A Christmas Carol in reverse,” Stewart joked. “‘I’m simply making an attempt to fireside these three ghosts who’re making an attempt to get extra time,’” he stated, mimicking Trump’s method of talking.
However the gem of the night time got here when Stewart unpacked Trump’s presentation as a free speech advocate alongside his varied statements that might curtail such demonstrations, together with his purpose to deport pro-Palestinian pupil protesters and jail those that burn the flag, a Supreme Court docket-affirmed safety established in 1989 by way of Texas vs. Johnson. He then zeroed in on an excerpt from a Rolling Stone article, detailing Trump’s ire with late-night comedians, which learn that the candidate was “venting about the necessity to punish late-night comedians.”
“Isn’t being on fundamental cable punishment sufficient?” the comedian joked in response.
Elsewhere on the episode, Stewart lambasted the United Nations’ latest meeting in New York, sarcastically calling it a “profitable” assembly: “The world simply exploding with peace proper now. Nice session guys.”
