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 Times recommended that the president is exhibiting “signs of fatigue.”
Stewart, in remarks on the newest episode of his “Weekly Show” podcast, joked that Trump is the “healthiest, most robust president” in U.S. historical past and stated he’s discovered “the thicker the ankle, the better the balance.”
“For Donald Trump, the level of fealty can never rise to a level that is satisfactory for him. There is no level of ass-kissing you can do,” Stewart stated.
The Times’ Katie Rogers and Dylan Freedman, of their reporting final month, wrote that Trump is working “shorter days” and it’s gotten more durable to venture a picture of “round-the-clock energy, virility and physical stamina.”
Trump’s obvious sequence of mid-meeting naps, in addition to speak round his MRI, have fueled additional questions round his well being and cognitive health in current weeks.
The president took to his Truth Social platform earlier this week to rant in regards to the Times’ reporting in a prolonged screed (once more), declaring that there’s “never been a President that has worked as hard as me” earlier than including that his hours are the “longest” and his outcomes are “among the best.”
On his podcast, Stewart stated that “everything is seditious” to Trump that “falls beneath the level of” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem thanking Trump for maintaining “the hurricanes away” this yr at a current Cabinet assembly.
“He is angry at Fox News, which is literally like a 24-hour-a-day, ball-washing machine for Trump and is designed specifically to keep him in power,” he stated.
“So for him to say something is seditious or treasonous means nothing because the bar of entry to Donald Trump is purely about how deeply you are proving your undying loyalty to the king. Anything below that, obviously, is seditious and none of us measure up, unfortunately.”
Stewart famous sarcastically that it’s “so hard” to be a billionaire president.
“Money corrupts and power corrupts and to have all the money and all the power — it’s like if ‘Lord of the Rings’ ended where they’re going to drop the ring into the fire and then instead of hitting the fire, he catches it,” Stewart stated.
“Think of how hard that is on someone, we don’t feel bad enough.”
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