Returning to internet hosting duties on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart addressed every little thing from President Donald Trump’s spat with the Vatican to the electoral defeat of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
The POTUS not too long ago took umbrage with Pope Leo XIV’s message of peace amid the continuing U.S.-Israeli conflict on Iran, however Stewart urged him to rethink: “And look, President Trump, I know the Vatican’s been critical of your policies, but you gotta remember that at the end of the day you and the Catholic Church both historically care deeply about the same thing — covering up sex scandals.”
Though the GOP chief’s feedback in opposition to the sovereign pontiff upset lots of Christian religion, the late-night host assured “please don’t worry, it gets worse” as Trump posted and then deleted an AI-generated image of himself as Jesus Christ.
The photograph depicted Trump in messianic garb, therapeutic a determine that eerily seemed like Stewart. The comedian spent some minutes zooming in on and squinting on the photograph, placing his hand on his head to determine the resemblance.
“I know I don’t have the vigor and spunk of my MTV days, but I didn’t know we were here already,” Stewart quipped. “I didn’t realize my look had reached leper territory. I mean, from the picture, it looks like it was touch-and-go with me for a while.”
He added, “This is freaking me the fuck out.”
After the picture drew intense backlash, Trump was requested by a reporter to touch upon the matter, at which level he defended the photograph as an outline of himself as a health care provider.
“Do you even care about lying to us anymore? Is it over? [Has] this relationship gone still? Your lies used to have a real spark: ‘They’re eating the cats and dogs, Venezuela stole the 2020 election.’ And now the best you’ve got is: ‘Oh, was it Jesus? I’m a doctor.’ You need to find your happy place, and fast. We expect better lies, sir,” Stewart mentioned.
Toward the top of his monologue, Stewart addressed far-right populist and Trump ally Orbán’s decisive defeat, noting that the Hungarian citizenry’s celebratory temper symbolized hope and modeled the place the United States could possibly be quickly.
“Please, God, let the dam be breaking,” he said. “Folks, this has been a truly shit year, as we have all been at the mercy of the mercurial whims of a megalomaniacal man-baby. And we are tired. The presidency is supposed to age the president, not the people. But I’m telling you: There is hope. The air of Donald Trump’s invincibility is being slowly eroded by world events and his own heart’s ability to clear liquid from his capillaries.”
