‘Nobody Asked Donald Trump What Makes America Great’: Jon Stewart Dishes on Election

For the first time since Donald Trump‘s stunning upset win last week in the presidential election, former Daily Show host Jon Stewart has weighed in on the outcome that shocked the world.

Speaking with Charlie Rose of CBS This Morning, Stewart noted that the 2016 election was a “reaction not just to Democrats but Republicans,” identifying the fact that Trump was never really a member of the Republican party prior to announcing his candidacy. “But they will reap the benefit of his victory.”

“Nobody asked Donald Trump what makes America great.” — Jon Stewart on the election. pic.twitter.com/OBAZaZ9iNp

— CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) November 17, 2016

“The thing that struck me odd about this election — and maybe I just missed it — was nobody asked Donald Trump: what makes America great?” noted Stewart. “What are the metrics?”

The underdog Trump candidacy used the slogan “Make America Great Again” as the rallying cry to its base. But, as Stewart pointed out, the issue at hand goes far deeper than just the slogan.

“America is an anomaly in the world,” he continued. “There are a lot of people — and I think [Trump’s] candidacy has animated that thought — that a multi-ethnic democracy, a multi-ethnic cultural democracy, is impossible.”

“And that is what America by its founding and constitutionally is,” Stewart concluded. Watch above via CBS This Morning.
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