Jon Stewart Tears Into Trump Free Speech Hypocrisy: ‘These Guys Don’t Give a F*ck About Free Speech!’
The Daily Show host Jon Stewart tore into President Donald Trump and the Republican Party for flip-flopping on free speech, Monday, complaining that the “hypocrisy” had become so “blatant.”
“As we know, conservatives have been very concerned about the loss of free speech in our country for a very long time,” Stewart said on his show. “But luckily our national free speech nightmare recently came to an end when we entered the golden age of Donald Trump.”
Stewart played clips of Trump boasting, “We have saved free speech in America,” and “Free speech in America, it’s back,” before remarking, “Thank God. We have a president now who believes in free – just go ahead.”
The Daily Show host then played a series of other clips which showed Trump branding CNN and MSNBC “illegal,” and calling for ABC and CBS to lose their licenses.
“This is so blatant, I can’t wrap my head around it,” Stewart reacted. “It’s not even a hypocrisy — it’s that they so fetishize free speech, this thing that they do not in any way actually practice.”
He then aired a montage of Trump’s “attacks on free speech,” including the arrest of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil for leading a protest against Israel at Columbia University, and a restriction on the use of hundreds of words in the federal government, including “BIPOC,” “DEI,” “Latinx,” “Native American,” “black,” “women,” and “sex.”
“These guys don’t give a fuck about free speech! They care about their speech. It’s so blatant the hypocrisy,” Stewart protested, before mocking, “You can’t say words like ‘women’ or ‘sex’ or ‘#MeToo’? How can a lot of your cabinet members describe their weekends?”
He concluded: “You can’t protest in a way that offends the right, you can’t teach things that the right doesn’t want you to teach, you can’t read things that they don’t want you to read, you can’t use words that they don’t want you to use, but they love free speech!”
Watch above via The Daily Show.
