Jon Stewart Ridicules Trump for Saying There Are Several ‘Methods’ to Stay in White House: ‘Some of Them Involve Catapults’
The Daily Show host Jon Stewart tore into President Donald Trump on Monday after the commander in chief repeatedly floated the possibility of using unspecified “methods” to remain in the White House for a third term.
Asked about the possibility of serving a third term this week, Trump replied, “There are methods which you could do it, as you know.”
The president said one such method would involve Vice President JD Vance running for the presidency and then handing over power, before adding, “There are others too. There are others.”
Reacting to Trump’s remarks, Stewart mocked, “Yes, there are other methods. I think you tried one a few years ago. There are other methods for staying in power beyond when you are legally allowed to be there. Historically, some of them involve catapults. Although maybe Trump has something more creative in mind with the Vance thing. Have you guys heard of the movie Face/Off?”
He continued, “So aside from the president saying, ‘I’m not leaving,’ is there any other image of the shambolic state of our democracy? Perhaps something that looks like what you might get if you fed the destruction of democracy into an AI meme generator? Oh right, Elon Musk. Okay.”
Stewart then played a clip of billionaire Trump ally Elon Musk dancing onstage in a cheese hat.
Trump and his allies have repeatedly repeatedly floated the possibility of a third term in the White House.
“We’re working on it,” former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon said earlier this month. “I think we’ll have a couple of alternatives, let’s say that. We’ll see what the definition of term limit is.”
Speaking to reporters on Air Force One on Sunday, the president argued that a potential third term in the White House would actually be his fourth.
“I have had more people ask me to have a third term, which in a way is a fourth term because the other election, the 2020 election was totally rigged, so it’s actually sort of a fourth term,” he claimed. “I don’t even want to talk about it. I’m just telling you I have had more people saying, please run again. We have a long way to go before we even think about that but I’ve had a lot of people.”
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