Tonight’s installment of The Each day Present had Jon Stewart tackling a variety of subjects — from president Donald Trump‘s “struggle on DEI” to his aggression towards nations like Panama (he desires to “take again” the canal) and Denmark (he desires to purchase Greenland).
“Denmark, Panama and Canada,” the host remarked, “we’re America, we used to combat the Nazis. Now we’re scouring the globe for straightforward marks? What are we, the Jake Paul of countries?”
Transferring on to Trump’s tariffs, Stewart performed a clip of Democratic Senate minority chief Chuck Schumer, who gave a press briefing to deal with the fallout of such actions, holding up a beer and an avocado as examples of things that would grow to be costlier because of the commerce struggle.
“Democrats, are you able to please cease f—ing trodding Schumer on the market, each time Trump traverses into the unreal?” Stewart started his plea, pausing between each phrase. “[Whispering] He’s not good at this. What’s the decision-making course of right here? Hey, who ought to we get on the market to successfully battle one of the vital savvy presidential media manipulators in historical past? Oh, I don’t know, how about Schumer? He’s uninteresting, however at the very least he’s monotone. Oh wait, and Chuck, earlier than you go on the market, you look too younger, placed on these readers and decrease them in your nostril. Good! Actually, listening to Chuck Schumer converse on nearly any matter makes me wish to bomb Canada.”
Stewart backtracked shortly, saying he was “kidding, in fact,” given that there have been guests from Montreal within the viewers, joking that he was going to “want an residence quickly.”
Moreover, Stewart tackled Trump’s “struggle on DEI” — authorities company websites have eliminated the “T” for transgender in “LGBT” from sure pages in an effort towards censorship.
“DEI: variety, fairness and inclusion — MAGA world’s blamed this scourge for all the things from the fires in California, to the assault on Bourbon Avenue, to inflation, to the Baltimore bridge collapse, to why your youngsters are confused concerning the race of mermaids,” Stewart mentioned, subsequent to a poster for 2023’s The Little Mermaid starring Halle Bailey, “as a result of mermaids, girls and boys, are gingers. They’ve all the time been that.”
The political comedian additionally addressed the White Home’s dealing with of the airline tragedy in Washington, D.C., by which a Black Hawk helicopter collided with a industrial American Airways flight, leading to 67 deaths (64 passengers and three troopers). Trump has additionally pinned the blame for that catastrophe on DEI.
“That’s the irony of this entire factor, the individuals standing subsequent to Trump on that horrible night time blaming DEI and attempting to reinstall white guys as the one nonsuspect pool of hires are themselves DEI hires, for one explicit id that they possess: the ass-kisser. DEI: dick-sucking ego inflation,” he mentioned.
Stewart capped off the night time with a skit that includes Josh Johnson, Desi Lydic, Michael Kosta and Ronny Chieng — by which the solid members vied to interchange one another for the highest spot in wake of the anti-DEI efforts of the present administration. As Stewart struggled to encourage unity, Jordan Klepper walked as much as his desk, signaling to the veteran that he ought to depart: “Is it due to the Jewish factor or the age factor?” he requested.
“Does it matter?” Klepper responded.
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