Jon Stewart Mocks Trump’s ‘Gettysburg, Wow’ Story: ‘Plagiarized Almost Directly from My Seventh Grade Book Report’
Jon Stewart mercilessly roasted Donald Trump over the former president’s re-telling of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Trump held a rally on Saturday in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania, where he recounted the 1863 Civil War battle that resulted in a pivotal Union victory. The ex-president’s haphazard description of the event drew Stewart’s mockery on Monday’s edition of The Daily Show.
“This weekend, our former president – and illustrious historian Donald J. Trump – spoke near one of America’s most hallowed battlefields,” the comedian began. “And if you thought Lincoln consecrated Gettysburg with his soaring rhetoric, well, bu-bu-buckle up.”
“Gettysburg, what an unbelievable battle that was,” Trump said in a clip Stewart played. “The Battle of Gettysburg. What an– I mean, it was so much and so interesting and so vicious and horrible and so beautiful in so many different ways. It represented such a big portion of the success of this country. Gettysburg, wow.”
“That is plagiarized almost directly from my seventh grade book report – ‘Gettysburg. Wow,'” Stewart cracked before imitating Trump. “‘It was vicious and horrible and beautiful.’ Is he talking about a Civil War battle or a horse giving birth?”
Stewart then aired footage of Trump discussing traitor Robert E. Lee.
“I go to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to look and to watch,” the former president said. “And the statement of Robert E. Lee, who’s no longer in favor. Did you ever notice that? No longer in favor.”
Trump then alleged Lee once told his soldiers, “Never fight uphill, me boys. Never fight uphill.”
“It is true,” Stewart said as the audience laughed. “The North did have the higher ground, but I’m pretty sure that Robert E. Lee was not a leprechaun. ‘Ah, never fight uphill, me boys! That’s not how to take back the North’s pot o’ gold. Ya can’t be fighting uphill, me boys.’ Also minor point but, I’m pretty sure Robert E. Lee would not have told them, “Never fight uphill,” since he’s the one who told them to f****** fight uphill!”
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