Jon Stewart Warns Trump His Latest Rosie O’Donnell Jab Just Isn’t Enough To Kill MAGA ‘Revolt’
Jon Stewart gave President Donald Trump a warning Monday night that his “classic” barrage of distractions will not be “enough” to quell MAGA’s “open revolt” over the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case.
During his monologue to kick off The Daily Show, the host said that his team had prepared a “funny” and “tremendous deconstruction” of Trump’s tariffs but had to pivot to MAGA’s feuding after even Sesame Street’s Elmo unleashed on the president – mockingly noting how the character’s X account was hacked and used to launch an attack on Trump’s Epstein handling and fire off anti-semitic slurs.
“Now, the impetus for Elmo’s rant seems to be the Department of Justice memo that has just been released that said the Epstein sex-trafficking case was officially closed and that no new information would be forthcoming,” the host said. “And while Elmo is demanding that the files be released, Donald Trump’s response is brought to you by the letters ‘F U.'”
“These are all people who work for Trump that set the expectation,” Stewart said, after playing clips of figures like Vice President JD Vance and FBI director Kash Patel “hyping” the release of “the Epstein list.”
He continued: “And I think because of that, surprisingly, MAGAworld, for the first time in memory, isn’t just slavishly acquiescing to Trump’s reality distortion field.”
Stewart rolled back clips of a disgruntled Fox News host Jesse Watters and then to podcaster Glenn Beck demanding Attorney General Pam Bondi be “fired.”
“Yes, Pam Bondi, the ringleader,” Stewart interjected to audience laughter. “She makes the decisions.”
The host then took aim at Trump’s attempts to shutter the interest in Epstein: “Trump had to go back out and kill the backlash, perhaps even making it look like a suicide.”
On Saturday, Trump wrote on Truth Social: “Why are we giving publicity to Files written by Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, Brennan, and the Losers and Criminals of the Biden Administration?”
Stewart cut in to jibe: “So, just to understand this, in a few months’ time, we went from, the Epstein files will expose the Democrats, to the Epstein files were written by the Democrats and therefore can’t be trusted so let’s move on. And then Trump brings up Hunter Biden’s laptop as a reminder for all of us not to dwell on old conspiracy theories. What?”
“MAGAworld is now in open revolt,” Stewart said and, rolling back a clip of someone burning MAGA hats on a BBQ added: “You want to know how bad it’s getting out there? They’re literally burning their MAGA army uniforms. Yeah!”
He continued: “But if you know Trump, he can always just pivot to the classic Trump distraction – throw something outlandish out there and watch the dogs chase the squirrel. ‘I’m going to invade Greenland. I’m going to bomb Iran.’ He’s going to try something big.”
Cutting to a news report about Trump’s threat to revoke citizenship of comedian Rosie O’Donnell and back to his desk in the studio, Stewart paused to let the laughter roll before sniping with a Jaws reference: “I think we’re gonna need a bigger boat. That’s not going to be enough.”
“Don’t look at our inaction in prosecuting a sex-trafficking ring to the rich and powerful,” the host said. “We must focus on the real issue – the denaturalization of the co-star of Riding the Bus with My Sister!”
Stewart didn’t stop: “Yeah, MAGA is losing their shit right now. They cannot believe what they’re seeing. Trump is lying, dismissing reasonable concerns as bad-faith whining, attacking anyone who disagrees? Well, as a resident of blue America, can I just say right now to my red colleagues that my pronouns are ‘how does’ and ‘my ass taste.’ You like it?”
“The Trump that you’re just experiencing now, to your deep disappointment and dismay, is the dude we’ve been dealing with the whole fucking time. You just didn’t realize it because he’s been nice to you,” he added.
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