Jon Stewart is an undecided voter, he joked, as in a part of a bunch that’s “mainly, me and 6 individuals who have been kicked within the head by very highly effective horses,” he mentioned on Monday evening’s installment of The Day by day Present, which kicked off with a protracted 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 skill to change from Indian to Black — like that!” he mentioned, 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 economic policy plan to the jarring juxtapositions between his picture versus his speech; in a single instance, Stewart performed a stream of clips by which varied politicians and pundits claimed Trump was pro-worker, solely to then observe it up with excerpts of Trump conveying his disdain for paying his workers time beyond regulation.
“I gotta say each time Trump talks about employees, it’s like watching A Christmas Carol in reverse,” Stewart joked. “‘I’m simply attempting to fireside these three ghosts who’re attempting to get time beyond regulation,’” he mentioned, mimicking Trump’s approach of talking.
However the gem of the evening got here when Stewart unpacked Trump’s presentation as a free speech advocate alongside his varied statements that may curtail such demonstrations, together with his goal to deport pro-Palestinian student protesters and jail those who burn the flag, a Supreme Courtroom-affirmed safety established in 1989 through 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 assembly in New York, sarcastically calling it a “profitable” assembly: “The world simply exploding with peace proper now. Nice session guys.”
