Jon Stewart on Thursday shredded Donald Trump’s declare that the media reporting on his well being is “seditious, perhaps even treasonous” after an article in The New York Occasions advised that the president is exhibiting “indicators of fatigue.”
Stewart, in remarks on the newest episode of his “Weekly Show” podcast, joked that Trump is the “healthiest, most sturdy president” in U.S. historical past and he’s discovered that the “thicker the ankle, the higher the steadiness.”
“For Donald Trump, the extent of fealty can by no means rise to a stage that’s passable for him. There isn’t any stage of ass-kissing you are able to do,” Stewart mentioned.
The Occasions’ Katie Rogers and Dylan Freedman, in their reporting last month, wrote that Trump is working “shorter days” and it’s gotten tougher to mission a picture of “round the clock vitality, virility and bodily stamina.”
Trump’s obvious sequence of mid-meeting naps in addition to discuss round his MRI has fueled additional questions round his well being and cognitive health in latest weeks.
The president took to his Truth Social platform earlier this week to rant concerning the Occasions’ reporting in a prolonged screed (again), declaring that there’s “by no means been a President that has labored as onerous as me” earlier than including that his hours are the “longest” and his outcomes are “among the many greatest.”
On his podcast, Stewart mentioned that all the things is “seditious” to Trump that falls under Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem thanking Trump for keeping “the hurricanes away” this yr at a latest Cupboard assembly.
“He’s indignant at Fox News, which is actually like a 24-hour-a-day, ball-washing machine for Trump and is designed particularly to maintain him in energy,” he mentioned.
“So for him to say one thing is seditious or treasonous means nothing as a result of the bar of entry to Donald Trump is solely about how deeply you’re proving your timeless loyalty to the king. Something under that, clearly, is seditious and none of us measure up, sadly.”
Stewart expressed that it’s “unhappy” and “so onerous” to be a billionaire president.
“Cash corrupts and energy corrupts and to have all the cash and all the ability — it’s like if ‘Lord of the Rings’ ended the place they’re going to drop the ring into the fireplace after which as a substitute of hitting the fireplace, he catches it,” Stewart mentioned.
“Consider how onerous that’s on somebody, we don’t really feel unhealthy sufficient.”
