Jon Stewart ridicules Trump after dinner jokes throw allies into ‘existential crisis’
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Jon Stewart ridicules Trump after dinner jokes throw allies into ‘existential crisis’
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>President Donald Trump’s awful jokes at the White House Correspondents Dinner last Friday earned him a sharp rebuke from comedian Jon Stewart on a new episode of “The Daily Show.”
>Trump’s speech at the dinner has been widely remembered for the ill-fated jabs he threw at CNN’s Kaitlan Collins over her looks and over her choice to smile. But several other remarks seemed to send Trump’s allies in the crowd into an existential crisis, Stewart noted.
>For instance, he pointed to Trump’s joke about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). Stewart noted that Trump seemed to be setting up a punchline before diverting into a tangent about another topic altogether.
>Trump also repeated a claim that he hates Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), who was one of the impeachment managers during Trump’s first trial.
>”Traditionally, roasts work because at the heart of it all you only roast the ones you love,” Stewart said. “Saying you hate someone in the middle of a joke really takes a lot of the pleasure … Don Rickles might not have been so popular if he ended his act by saying ‘No, seriously. F— the Japanese.'”
>Stewart then played a montage of the crowd reacting to some of Trump’s jokes.
>”It was a melange of confusion, boredom, shock, and at one point, a literal existential crisis,” Stewart said. “Here’s the one thing you never want at a comedy show: you never want them rethinking the choices that led them to that night.”
Even with a teleprompter he couldn’t keep on task. His deterioration is becoming so much more evident.
He even had one of his “resting his eyes” moments.
The jokes here were fantastic, but the speech at the end showing the conflict of interest and how this event shouldn’t even happen as the dictator terrorizes journalists, they shouldn’t attend and they shouldn’t be shaking hands with this thing, was on point. The press needs to get real and stop sucking up to this.