The Day by day Present host Jon Stewart couldn’t assist himself from mocking Elon Musk‘s look at a Donald Trump rally over the weekend, utilizing his present’s opening section on Monday to interrupt down the billionaire’s enthusiasm for the Trump marketing campaign and what Stewart says is hypocrisy round Individuals’ First Modification rights.
“Ooh, darkish MAGA?” Jon Stewart quipped on Monday’s episode of The Day by day Present, taking a swipe at Musk, who confirmed as much as the rally in a black “Make America Nice Once more” hat. “I didn’t realize it got here in flavours! I ponder if for the vacations they’ll come out with peppermint bark MAGA. Or pumpkin spice MAGA.”
The Tesla CEO and proprietor of X (previously Twitter) was mocked extensively on-line for hopping round on stage together with his fingers over his head, and Stewart joined within the pile-on together with his personal jokes.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk (R) jumps on stage as he joins former U.S. president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump throughout a marketing campaign rally on the web site of his first assassination try in Butler, Pa., on Oct. 5, 2024.
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“He’s appearing like a man who received a radio contest. ‘Oh, I can’t imagine I get to bid on the washer-dryer!’” Stewart mentioned.
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Jokes apart, Stewart zeroed in on the speech Musk delivered to the Butler, Pa., crowd, which centered on the First and Second Amendments.
“The opposite facet desires to remove your freedom of speech,” Musk mentioned. “It’s essential to have free speech with the intention to have democracy. That’s why it’s the First Modification.… The Second Modification is there to make sure that we now have the First Modification.”
The remark had Stewart notably rankled.
“The weapons don’t shield our free speech. Our free speech is protected by the consent of the ruled laid out by the Structure. It’s not primarily based on the specter of violence,” he mentioned.
“Weapons, from what I can inform, appear to largely shield the speech of the individuals holding the gun. It’s a device of intimidation. It’s a device of intimidation and one which I believe is definitely being irresponsibly and recklessly invoked as a result of some individuals in your crowd thought they could have been shadowbanned by Fb.
“I imply, for God’s sakes, you guys are in Butler, Pennsylvania,” Stewart mentioned. “The entire cause you’re there may be as a result of some f—ing a–gap with an AR-15 tried to completely litigate his imaginative and prescient of this nation’s ‘free speech.’ That’s why you’re there.”
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk listens as Republican presidential nominee former president Donald Trump speaks at a marketing campaign occasion on the Butler Farm Present, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024, in Butler, Pa.
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He additionally took offence with Musk applauding Trump’s dedication to free speech, declaring that the previous president threatened authorized motion concerning the upcoming biopic about his life, The Apprentice, after his workforce referred to as the film “election interference.”
“It’s not free speech if solely Trump’s admirers get to do it with out consequence,” Stewart mentioned. “That’s simply not the way it works. It doesn’t go that approach.”
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