“Our economic system is within the midst of a good looking metamorphosis, turning from a easy caterpillar right into a lifeless caterpillar” — so went Jon Stewart‘s decidedly literary opening (giving Franz Kafka a run for his cash so far as transformations go) throughout this week’s installment of The Daily Show.
The political comedian and host naturally tackled the “Commerce Wars,” as stylized on his present in Star Wars‘ signature font as seen above, and overlaid with its “Principal Title” theme. Stewart unpacked President Donald Trump’s combined messaging on the permanence vs. negotiation strategy of his tariffs and the Republican Social gathering’s staunch assist of such a jumbled rollout.
Addressing Trump’s tweet in regards to the so-called “Panican” celebration (“a brand new celebration primarily based on Weak and Silly Individuals!” as POTUS wrote), Stewart joked, “The genius who gave us classics like Sleepy Joe and Crooked Hillary, simply sh– out, ‘You’re a Panican’? How about Hysterocrats? Repussicans? How about Cryontologists? Did the abroad manufacturing facility you had been sourcing your nicknames from get shut down in the course of the tariff battle?”
When Trump doubled-down on his tariff rollout with the tweet “ONLY THE WEAK WILL FAIL!” Stewart took one other swipe: “Your financial coverage has the identical tagline as Season 3 of Squid Game?”
Ridiculing the chief’s waffling on whether or not the tariffs are everlasting or extra so a negotiation tactic, in addition to Republicans’ minimizing of individuals’s fears and the philosophizing across the coverage, Stewart quipped, “How a lot White Lotus did you individuals watch? ‘What’s permanence on this negotiated life we reside?’ Have a piña colada.”
“[The GOP’s] greatest argument to date for any of this is identical one which we obtained about Tinker Bell with the ability to fly — You must imagine,” Stewart stated of Republicans’ insistence on Trump’s “enterprise acumen” and the way it will information the nation via continued inventory market meltdowns.
Stewart concluded this system by permitting that the nation might “make changes,” however finally, because the richest nation on the earth, the burden of our inequalities relaxation on us. “We’re not the world’s victims … It didn’t need to be this reckless; you killed the hostage after which went, ‘So, ransom?’”
