Jon Stewart, who stepped away from the news desk last week, is back on Daily Offer On Monday night, Stewart said in his opening monologue: “My name is Jon Stewart, and I rose from COVID hell. I didn’t care for this experience for the first time.”
After welcoming viewers who had joined the show from Channel X, where the disastrous interview between Donald Trump and Elon Musk had taken place just hours earlier, Stewart turned his attention to the former president’s faltering campaign against Vice President Kamala Harris.
“A month ago, he was already president,” Stewart said. “He cheated death, he started a new trend in ear accessories. At the time, people thought his choice for vice president was a smart choice. He had everything in the bag, and it was taken away from him.”
The anchor suggested that Trump was “trying to put a good disaster on Harris,” before showing a series of clips of the former president reusing insults he used on President Joe Biden about Harris — attacks ranging from fear-mongering warnings of World War III to a stock market crash.
“Is this just a remix?” Stewart asked. “Man, you can’t just find Biden and replace him with Kamala. That’s lazy apocalypse prediction.”
“It's like when Elton John changed three words and then pretended 'Candle in the Wind' was always about [Princess] Diana. It wasn't like that! It's very disrespectful to Marilyn. [Monroe]”.”
Elsewhere, Stewart mocked Trump for his nostalgia for his former opponent. “It's sad,” the anchor joked. “It's like seeing an old man talking to an empty spot on a bench. Then you realize that's where his wife used to sit. He would have given up everything for one more moment with Joe Crooked.”
Harris is set to formally accept her nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago next week. With a slew of political leaders and celebrities pledging their support for the vice president, Harris and Trump have agreed to a debate on September 10 hosted by ABC. The news comes after Trump tried to back out of the debate last month and asked for a debate on his favorite propaganda network, Fox News.
