Jon Stewart Goes OFF on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News ‘Wildly Speculating on the Future’ During Trump Trial

During a monologue on Monday, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart criticized the major cable news networks for failing to hold politicians accountable.

Following a segment on former President Donald Trump being found guilty of falsifying business records in New York, Stewart displayed the logos of Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, Newsmax, ABC News, and CBS News before saying:

The difference between in court and out of court is that in court, someone can say, ‘Prove it,’ and the problem is that most of the time in this country, our political leaders are not in court, they are here on TV, where the news media has decided that there’s really no such thing as reality.

Stewart proceeded to play a series of clips of personalities on the cable news networks proclaiming that Americans are now “living in two different realities.”

“No, you’re thinking of the multiverse,” Stewart weighed in. “We are all living in one reality, and it can be the news media’s job to litigate the parameters of said reality. What the courts do really well is look backwards and reconstruct the realities of what happened. The news media could do the same, but what they do instead is look forward and wildly speculate on the future.”

Stewart then played a compilation of cable news hosts interrogating politicians over whether they would commit to accepting the 2024 election results “no matter what happens.”

“No matter what, senator. Voting irregularities, ant overlords, voting machines that suddenly transform into fighting robots!” The Daily Show host mocked. “Will you still certify? Who fucking cares?! No one knows what the future holds!”

He proposed, “Ask this person what it was about the 2020 election that they found objectionable and then litigate the realities of their objections to them, in front of them, so when they say to you, ‘I never said lock her up,’ you can say, ‘I object!’ Fucking do that! What is wrong with you?!”

Watch above via The Daily Show.