‘What The F*ck?!’ Jon Stewart Torches Trump Inauguration, Musk ‘Dab’ And ‘Auto-Scheduled’ Biden Pardons
Jon Stewart didn’t hold back as he dissected President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, delivering a no-holds-barred takedown of the “historic vibe shift” with a run-through of major moments.
During Monday’s episode of The Daily Show, Stewart zeroed in on the tech moguls present, former President Joe Biden’s eleventh-hour pardons, and Elon Musk’s eyebrow-raising salute to the crowd, all while skewering Trump’s speech in his signature no-bullshit style
Stewart first took aim at the elite attendees fawning over Trump, dubbing them a “plethora of bald billionaires who all seem to go to the same bio-hack life extension clinic and say, ‘Give me the Lex Luthor.'”
“These six guys who control maybe 20 percent of the world’s wealth and 100 percent of your nudes… shouldn’t this gathering be happening in a volcano’s lair near Zurich? Or are we just open-source Illuminati now?”
Stewart added ominously, “Trust me, shit’s going to get weird.”
Turning to Musk’s awkward hand gesture—widely criticized online for its resemblance to a Nazi gesture but graciously dismissed by the Anti-Defamation League as a “moment of enthusiasm”—Stewart initially gave the billionaire a charitable out.
“Okay, charitably, I’m going to say that was just an awkward ‘my heart goes out to you’ gesture. It’s a one-off gesture. Please try not to use it again,” he joked.
But as footage rolled of Musk repeating the motion, Stewart deadpanned: “I’m just going to be generous and say maybe that was Elon’s attempt at dabbing on the haters.”
Trump himself didn’t escape Stewart’s fire, especially for his decision not to place his hand on the Bible during his swearing-in, which the host mused might result in “one or the other would burst into flames. Perhaps both.”
Biden’s last-minute pardons were another target of ridicule.
“Biden, you’re at the inauguration! Did you auto-schedule your pardons? What the fuck, man?” Stewart mocked. “Like any good captain, as the ship is going down, he gave the order: ‘That lifeboat is for my family!’ The rest of you can do just a Jack and Rose thing.”
“The takeaway of this entire day was a man who tried to overthrow the government has been peacefully handed the reins of power, and the outgoing president has started a new tradition of blanket pardoning everyone in his orbit,” the comedian concluded, adding: “The two men created a magnificent snake sucking its own dick, a cycle of no accountability.”
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