Jon Stewart’s Prediction For CNN Is Dark And Trumpy… And Gold? | EUROtoday

Jon Stewart activated his mobster voice to foretell how the pending Paramount takeover of CNN is gonna go down. (Watch the video under.)

“I’d be astonished if they don’t walk in there and go like, ‘Eh, nice show you got here. It’d be a shame if something happened to it,’” the “Daily Show” host mentioned on his podcast Wednesday.

“I think the kinds of changes that you’re seeing at CBS are in the offing, and … he’s got a much more personal grudge against CNN than he does against CBS,” Stweart added.

The “he” is President Donald Trump, who the comic mentioned had an “astonishing” quantity of pull in figuring out the anticipated merger.

So a lot in order that Stewart predicted a venerable anchor on the information community is about to expertise a Trumpian makeover within the studio.

“I wouldn’t be surprised to see that looking more like the Oval [Office],” Stewart mentioned. “You’re like, ‘Are those gold cherubs behind Wolf Blitzer?’”

Stewart even instructed one of many properties within the merger may find yourself within the fingers of the Trump household in some way.

He additionally focused stories that cash from Saudi Arabia and different nations within the Middle East was getting used within the deal, elevating extra considerations about editorial information management.

“It’s so explicitly corrupt that it’s almost breathtaking,” Stewart mentioned earlier than including, “This is like real fucking monarch shit for sure.”

Fast-forward to 1:26:05 for his darkish and Trumpy CNN take:

Last week, CNN host Jake Tapper sounded the alarm in asserting that Paramount had the within monitor to accumulate CNN dad or mum Warner Bros Discovery after Netflix backed off.

“So we have some breaking news in our national lead that affects everybody I’m looking at right now in the studio,” he mentioned, turning his head theatrically towards staffers.

CNN staffers concern an overhaul is afoot.

Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison reportedly assured the Trump administration that if he purchased Warner, “he’d make sweeping changes to CNN.”

Trump has referred to as CNN’s present leaders “a disgrace” and mentioned that it was “imperative that CNN be sold.”

The Ellison-run Skydance’s acquisition of Paramount and subsidiary CBS final yr spawned a proper flip within the community’s information division beneath new Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss.

“The Daily Show,” a left-leaning political comedy program, confronted uncertainty as a Paramount property after that deal. But Stewart is now signed on by way of 2026.