Jon Stewart Roasts Trump’s Surprising Reason for Ending Epstein Friendship: ‘You Knew Him as Epstein the Sex Trafficker!’

The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart roasted President Donald Trump after the commander-in-chief revealed the surprising reason for his falling out with late billionaire sex predator Jeffrey Epstein.

On Monday’s edition of The Daily Show, Stewart once again targeted Trump over his handling of calls for more Epstein-related documents to be released. Stewart reacted with shock at Trump’s explanation for falling out with his former friend, and the fact that it had nothing to do with Epstein’s criminal acts.

Speaking alongside U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Turnberry, Scotland, Trump was confronted once again about the Epstein case. Trump called it “old history” when asked why he kicked Epstein out of his Palm Beach club.

“He did something that was inappropriate. He hired help. And I said ‘Don’t ever do that again.’ He stole people that worked for me. I said, ‘Don’t never do that again.’ He did it again. And I threw him out of the place, persona non grata. I threw him out, and that was it,” the president said.

Epstein died of an apparent suicide in 2019 while being charged with sex trafficking. He was previously convicted of being a child sex predator, and his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell is currently in prison for 20 years for sex trafficking, something the Department of Justice said she did in coordination with Epstein.

Trump has lashed out at some of his own supporters over calls for more Epstein files to be released following a Department of Justice/FBI memo denying the existence of a high profile client list of abusers associated with the late billionaire. Attorney General Pam Bondi made reference to such a list in February.

On Monday, Stewart held nothing back in mocking Trump for hired help being the reason for ending his friendship with Epstein.

“What he said was Epstein had done something inappropriate, and that’s why they’re no longer friends. You see, Donald Trump recognized that Epstein had finally crossed a line. Now, if it were me, obviously, giving this explanation in front of reporters, I probably would have stopped there. But, since I am not, Trump went on to describe Epstein’s inappropriate behavior,” Stewart said, then showing the clip of Trump explaining the Epstein fallout.

The explanation for what “crossed the rubicon” had Stewart pulling out a Trump impression.

“You all know him as Jeffrey Epstein, the sex trafficker!” the comedian said. “But I knew his dark side. He was…I mean, the sex trafficking, I was like, okay, but he was also a low-level employee poacher! And that I cannot have.”

Stewart also mocked Trump dismissing the “Epstein files” as being written by the “worst scum on Earth,” meaning his predecessors in office.

“It’s simple. If I, Donald Trump, was in the files, they would have released it, so clearly I’m not in the file, but, of course, I’m clearly in the files,” Stewart said. “Which makes them phony.”

Watch above via Comedy Central.