‘Just So F*cking Weird!’ Jon Stewart Rips Trump’s ‘Embarrassingly Sycophantic’ Cabinet Members
The Daily Show host Jon Stewart ridiculed President Donald Trump’s “embarrassingly sycophantic” cabinet members on Monday, calling their constant compliments “just so fucking weird.”
Reacting to Trump’s deportation of illegal immigrants to an El Salvador mega prison – including one man who was sent to the prison after an alleged administrative error – Stewart remarked, “I think the hosts of The View are about to get administratively errored.”
He continued, “I gotta tell you, I did not think he would get this authoritarian this fast. I really didn’t. I’m sorry. Who could have known? Maybe if someone out there had yelled at me on Bluesky about this I would’ve known, but no one did, except every day, in all-caps. So I guess the question is how authoritarian is we?”
Stewart argued:
We already know Trump’s done a lot of the standard fare. He’s attacked the free press, pulled random people off the streets, made law firms and universities bend the knee, announced Department of Justice investigations into an individual whose sole crime was suggesting that the 2020 election had been safe and well administered. You know, the bad, bad people. But authoritarianism isn’t just policies, it’s an aesthetic. The opulence of medieval kings, the excesses of Middle Eastern autocrats. It’s a Pinterest vibe that speaks to the power of one’s position, the riches that are the privilege of the office. Does Trump measure up? Does he have the lack of available wall space?
Stewart then played a clip of Trump showing off his golden cherub wall ornaments in the Oval Office to Fox News host Laura Ingraham.
“They’re gold, all gold, look,” said Trump in the clip. “Throughout the years, people have tried to come up with a gold paint that would look like gold and they have never been able to do it. Look at that, look. You’ve never been able to match gold with gold paint. That’s why it’s gold.”
“That dude is so blue collar,” mocked Stewart. “But you know, rooms filled with real gold cherubs are nothing if those rooms aren’t also filled with the echoes of the most embarrassingly sycophantic hosannas.”
The Daily Show host then played a compilation of Trump’s cabinet members thanking him, praising his “vision,” and laughing excessively at his jokes.
“When I watch those cabinet meetings, I’m actually thinking, are they making fun of him? It’s so over the top,” concluded Stewart. “It’s just so fucking weird.”
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